This paper describes the framework of a Korean phonological knowledge base system using the unificationbased grammar formalism : Korean Phonology Structure Grammar (KPSG). The approach of KPSG provides an explicit development model for constructing a computational phonological system : speech recognition and synthesis system. We show that the proposed approach is more describable than other app...

Recent work on London English has found innovation in inner city areas, most likely as the outcome of dialect contact. These innovations are shared by speakers of different ethnic backgrounds, and have been identified as features of Multicultural London English (MLE). This study examines whether syllable timing is a feature of MLE, as work on rhythm shows that dialect and language contact may l...

Hindko is one of the main native languages spoken in the focused area of Muzaffarad. This paper aims to identify the syllable typology of Hindko spoken in this area. In addition to this, it also attempts to find out the frequently used syllable templates for monosyllabic, bisyllabic and polysyllabic words. The data has been collected by asking the native speakers of Hindko to prepare the list o...

Several populations, such as normally developing children around the age of two years, children with language impairments, and adults with aphasia, all share a similar documented phenomenon in their language production: omitting syllables from their speech. Omitted syllables are most often those that are weakly stressed and that directly precede the primary stress of a word, yielding such stres...

Cross-language perception of phonetic features was investigated via an experiment in which native speakers of Korean and English identified speech sounds varying across voicing (voiced vs. voiceless), place of articulation (labial vs. coronal), and manner of articulation (stop vs. fricative) features as well as prosodic context (syllable initial vs. syllable final). Because Korean has no anteri...

This paper describes an alternative approach in solving connected digit problem in speech recognition. Instead of depending very much on the validity of the speech signal via segmentation of isolated digit; this work applies a genetic like approach to anticipate missing or unrecognized acoustic information prior to recognize the whole speech string being uttered. The test speech pattern in this...

This paper presents an optimality-theoretic comparison of three round vowel patterns in the Altaic family. At the core is an analysis of bisyllabic trigger round harmony, a pattern uncovered in recent investigation of Classical Manchu and Oroqen (Tungusic; Zhang 1996). In these languages round spreading takes place only when the first two syllables of a word are round. This study isolates two s...

Non-natiue and natiue American English speakers produced tokens of three-syllable words such as confession and four-syllable words such as confirmation, in isolation and in sentences. The acoustic-phonetic correlates of stress amplitude, fundamental frequency, and duration were measured for the first two syllables of each word. Both groups of speakers were highly uariable. Non-natiue speakers d...