This study investigates the non-native production of rhotics by Mandarin speakers learning Persian as L3 and it compares the results with that of native speakers. In the light of the findings, one of the predictions made by the Speech Learning Model was tested. According to this model, speech acquisition happens at a position-sensitive allophonic level. A series of informal /casual interviews w...

This paper examines the acoustic correlates of the geminate consonants of Cypriot Greek. Several measurements were obtained, including target segment duration, preceding vowel duration and quality, RMS for the geminates themselves, and voice quality differences in their production. It was found that for the segments whose duration can be most easily prolonged (i.e. /l/, nasals and fricatives) t...

In this article we examine diminutive formation in Judeo-Spanish, which has not been treated before in the generative literature. The distribution of diminutive suffixes is shown to be predictable based on an interaction of morphological and phonological properties, which is a recognized hallmark of diminutive formation in Spanish more generally. Judeo-Spanish also presents some interesting twi...

This study examines the segmental duration of non-vibrant rhotics in a language contact scenario Western Caribbean, where an English-based Creole co-exists with Spanish: The Archipelago San Andres, Colombia. unexplored phenomenon neutralization tap/trill contrast merits thorough analysis to examine effects this Creole-Spanish bilingual population. To do this, 619 non-vibrant, intervocalic taps ...

In the original description of Allonemobius walkeri Howard & Furth, 1986, authors describe species’ calling songs in a table that included trill length, length interval between trills, pulse rate, and carrier frequency for four individuals. Further investigation acoustics this species reveals are composed syllables organized into echemes varying number syllables, groups echemes, variabl...

Playing techniques contain distinctive information about musical expressivity and interpretation. Yet, current research in music signal analysis suffers from a scarcity of computational models for playing techniques, especially the context live performance. To address this problem, our paper develops general framework technique recognition. We propose adaptive scattering transform, which refers...

Introduction This paper uses ultrasound data in order to explore the extent to which lingual coarticulatory resistance for front lingual consonants and vowels in VCV sequences increases with the place and manner of articulation requirements involved in their production. Coarticulatory resistance for a given consonant or vowel is a measure of its degree of articulatory variability as a function ...