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...

Based on the noise-replacement paradigm, recent studies showed that vowels carried more perceptional information for sentence intelligibility than consonants. Considering that vowels contain many important acoustic cues for speech perception, this study further assessed the effect of spectral degradation to the intelligibility of Mandarin vowel sentences. Mandarin sentences were processed to ge...

EMA, aerodynamic, and acoustic signals were combined in order to observe lingual and labial articulation of oral and nasal vowels in Northern Metropolitan French (NMF) and Quebec French (QF). Inter-speaker variation observed in oral articulation suggests the importance of motor equivalence in the acoustic dispersion of each vowel system. Inter-dialectal differences observed are suggestive of im...

introduction: the feedback provided by auditory apparatus equips normal hearing people with an important controlling mechanism over the speech production processes. the speech of hearing-impaired children is both perceptually and acoustically abnormal. this study tried to compare the formant frequencies of three long vowels in persian-speaking children who used cochlear implant and those who we...

The concept of vowel grade by which morphological features in some IndoEuropean languages are signaled by change in the quality of the vowel of a given form has long been recognized. More recently, the term has also been applied to the variation in vowels that occur in some case-marking prepositional forms in Austronesian languages. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate some of the proces...

Many studies have shown the advantage of using ideal binary mask (IdBM) to improve the intelligibility of speech masked by interfering voices. The present work further investigated the segmental contribution to the intelligibility of the IdBMprocessed sentences. Three types (i.e., vowel-only, consonantonly, and vowel-consonant transition) of Mandarin IdBMprocessed stimuli were generated by usin...

This study investigated the dynamic spectral patterns of vowels in Mandarin Chinese using a corpus of monosyllabic words spoken in isolation. Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) were parameterized in different ways to test the nature of the dynamic information in vowels through automatic vowel classification. Compared to the MFCCs extracted at the vowel midpoint, using the MFCCs extract...

Native Spanish speakers and Canadian English learners of Spanish produced the five Spanish vowels in utterance final /sV/ syllables. The syllables were presented in random order to Spanish and English listeners for identification of vowels in terms of Spanish vowel categories. The English listeners also identified the vowels in terms of English vowel categories. Initial analysis of perceptual r...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to ascertain the effect of changes in stress and speech rate on vowel coarticulation in vowel-consonant-vowel sequences. METHOD Data on second formant coarticulatory effects as a function of changing /i/ versus /a/ were collected for five Catalan speakers' productions of vowel-consonant-vowel sequences with the fixed vowels /i/ and /a/ and consonants: the ap...

The representation of speech goals was explored using an auditory feedback paradigm. When talkers produce vowels the formant structure of which is perturbed in real time, they compensate to preserve the intended goal. When vowel formants are shifted up or down in frequency, participants change the formant frequencies in the opposite direction to the feedback perturbation. In this experiment, th...