The Converter-Distributor (C/D) Model, a generative theory of phonetic implementation, describes an utterance as a linear string of syllables with intervening boundaries. Its base component includes phonetic status contours for voicing, tonal, and vocalic gestures. Consonantal elemental gestures, as stored impulse responses, are excited by the syllable pulse and superimposed onto the base funct...

In speech rhythm analysis, it is important to localize the perceptual center (P-center) of syllables in order to establish a basis for measuring syllabic duration. P-center research has focused primarily on Germanic languages, for which syllables tend to begin with multiple consonants. In Cantonese, the syllable-initial position contains no more than one consonant, making it less prone to durat...

The paper investigates the temporal structures of three types of syllables, CV:, CVN, and CVV (C = [p ph ts tsh s], V: = [aː], VN = [an], VV = [ai]), in Cantonese. Results of a temporal analysis of the speech samples from two 9to 10-year-old Cantonese-speaking children are as follows. First, the durations of the syllable-initial consonants and the following rime are not negatively correlated, a...

The placement of stress also part learning pronunciation foreign language. many nonnative English students cannot pronounce the word in right way. This study aimed analyzing students’ online class and how do correct their mistakes. was conducted at public Senior High School Bekasi that involved five participants who agreed to be tested answered questionnaires. genders are choosing randomly elev...

This study examines some intonational and rhythmical aspects of speech and their interactions. The intonational analysis framework is the ToBi system; the rhythmical analysis framework is based on patterns of jaw opening acoustically reflected by F2-F1 changes. According to recent studies on American English, contrastively emphasized mono-syllabic words, regardless of vowel height, have larger ...

This paper presents an acoustic and electropalatographic study of how vowel-less syllables and their constituents are phonetically implemented in Tashlhiyt Berber. Three issues are addressed. First, we determine whether the acoustic and articulatory make-up of a consonant changes as a function of its position within a syllable (C-nucleus vs. C-onset vs. C-coda). Second, we consider the patterns...

Syllables are important units of speech processing for infants. Bertoncini & Mehler (1981) found that infants discriminate stimuli with syllabic (CVC) structures better than nonsyllabic (CCC) patterns. More recently, Jusczyk et al. (1995) found that the availability of a common syllable structure improved 2-month-olds"memory for speech information. Infants familiarized with a set of 4 bisyllabl...