In this work, we perform the acoustic analysis of features harmonicity, sonority, duration and intensity each /g/ sound extracted from a sample spontaneous speech corpus collected recordings local television programs in Andalusia, Madrid Basque Country. This consists 1292 utterances, which velar appears on 151 occasions different contexts. These sounds are described categorized thanks to Praat ...

Constraints based on the sonority scale and other markedness hierarchies have been formalized in two different ways: as scale-partition constraint families, with a universally fixed ranking, and as stringency constraint families, where the constraints stand in subset relations and their ranking is not universal. We identify a new empirical domain where these two approaches make different predic...

The Albanian language is traditionally divided between the Gheg dialect to geographic north and now Standard Tosk south. Recent literature of historically isolated Malsia Madhe (Dedvukaj 2022) has revealed a subdialect which not undergone specific phonological sound changes seen in both Modern dialects. distinct from dialects (Malsia) that it contains homorganic nasal-stop clusters positions wh...

BACKGROUND Individuals with acquired phonological dyslexia experience difficulty associating written letters with corresponding sounds, especially in pseudowords. Previous studies have shown that reading can be improved in these individuals by training letter-sound correspondence, practicing phonological skills, or using combined approaches. However, generalization to untrained items is typical...

A neuronal model intended to target highly sonorant periods of a speech stream is presented. The model—“Spike-V”—uses habituation and Hebbian learning in opposition to each other to dynamically adjust its behavior. Acting in realtime, driven by only the signal, Spike-V produces a spike-train in which each spike corresponds to roughly the center of a period of high sonority (i.e. a vowel) in the...

This paper provides an Optimality-Theoretic analysis of a number of Russian vowel reduction patterns. In particular, the analysis presented here relies on a non-unitary approach (Crosswhite 1999) to two-pattern vowel reduction systems, such as those typically seen in Russian dialects. Furthermore, a particularly complex dialectal pattern, traditionally referred to as "dissimilative" reduction, ...