Learning to read is a complex process that develops normally in the majority of children and requires the mapping of graphemes to their corresponding phonemes. Problems with the mapping process nevertheless occur in about 5% of the population and are typically attributed to poor phonological representations, which are--in turn--attributed to underlying speech processing difficulties. We examine...

This paper introduces the palatalized nasal [nʲ] as an allophonic realization of coronal /n/ in Cairene Arabic. The variants phonemes previously described acoustic and sociolinguistic terms include alveolar stops [t, d] their pharyngealized counterparts [tˤ, dˤ], which can be preceding high, front vowel [i:]. While previous studies have anecdotally noted that undergo palatalization same environ...

This article provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of Sistani Persian spoken in Iranian Sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes. A representative selection of processes in the language is examined in reference to conditioning by surrounding segments and conditioning in reference to syllable structure. While assimilation and dissimilation a...

this article provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of sistani persian spoken in iranian sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes. a representative selection of processes in the language is examined in reference to conditioning by surrounding segments and conditioning in reference to syllable structure. while assimilation and dissimilation a...

In this research, we have investigated about prosodic features of Farsi (Persian) language and quantified major stress rules and some intonation rules for speech synthesis purpose. The research is mostly concentrated on pitch variations and then on durational changes. We have implemented the proposed simplified prosodic rules using a Klatt formant synthesizer, specially modified for Farsi phone...

This paper describes the vowel system of Damascus Arabic in Syria, from now onwards referred to as Syrian Arabic (SA). We examine the acoustic correlates of SA short/long vowel contrasts, and investigate the status of mid vowels in SA. The goal is to expand on the auditory description of the SA vowel system performed by Cowell [8]. The full set of vowel categories proposed by Cowell were produc...

We show the perception of Canadian French (CF) vowels by Canadian English (CE) listeners and test a cue-weighting hypothesis to explain the attested assimilation patterns. Five CF vowels, /i, y, u, , æ/, and three allophonic variants, [, , ], were examined. The listeners completed a native-language identification task with goodness of fit judgments. We found that most French vowels were ide...

Dialogue interaction with remote interlocutors is a difficult application area for speech recognition technology because of the limited duration of acoustic context available for adaptation, the narrow-band and compressed signal encoding used in telecommunications, high variability of spontaneous speech and the processing time constraints. It is even more difficult in the case of interacting wi...