This study presents articulatory data on the durational and timing characteristics of Russian onset clusters and their change as a function of speaking rate. While there is increasing evidence that languages differ systematically in their consonant-to-consonant timing, little is known on whether this difference also entails different implementations of speaking rate changes. Russian contrasts w...

This study considers modern instrumental and vocal-instrumental bandura performance with regard to the aspects of timbre sonority. The latter influence innovative experiments in field most. Modern compositions for are marked by expansion ofstylistic attributes; use a wide range new techniques elements polystylistics, classical genre prototypes, most recent technologies (aleatorics, cluster, lay...

The central hypothesis of this study was that phonological mediation plays a critical role in the early development of reading and spelling in French. Therefore, the phonological structure of items, as opposed to their visual characteristics, was expected to be a significant determinant of performance. This hypothesis was tested in a short term longitudinal study with a group of first graders (...

We report the application of a psychophysical model of pitch perception to the analysis of speech intonation. The model was designed to reproduce the empirical findings on the perception of musical phenomena (the dissonance/consonance of intervals and the tension/sonority of chords), but does not depend on specific musical scales or tuning systems. Application to intonation allows us to calcula...

In a sense I write under false pretences because the BBC possesses no special archives devoted to folk music. For the purposes of broadcasting, the BBC began to make recordings a t the end of 1931 and over the las t thirty years has built up a general Sound Archives of some 30,000 accession numbers: recordings mainly selected from its own broadcast programmes, ranging from variety to grand oper...

The research objective has been to confirm the efficiency of phonetic voice and pronunciation exercises. The results of listeners' assessment have then been compared to the objective parameters f0, shimmer and jitter, as well as to the spectra energy on the basis of LTASS. The dissimilarity index (SDDD) has been calculated to compare the spectra before and after the exercises. Voices that have ...