Abstract The concept of ‘global village’ has linked all countries in the world as a whole. exchanges and cooperation between different politics, economy, culture, education are becoming more frequent. To master language, study its pronunciation is crucial. Based on above considerations, this paper uses Chinese corpus 30 learners 10 native speakers basic data to discuss patterns learners’ mandar...

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To bridge the gap between the dissimilar mechanisms and entities of the phonological grammar and those of the phonetic mechanisms for producing and perceiving speech, the ‘phonetics-phonology interface’ (PPI) has been invoked. In this brief presentation, an introduction to the ICPhS 2003 Symposium on The Phonetics-Phonology Interface, I present an exegesis and taxonomy of the PPI and some citat...

Although from the beginning of Indo-European studies the Vedic accentual system has been thoroughly investigated and its importance for the reconstruction of Proto Indo-European accent long recognized, the phonetics of Vedic accent have received much less attention. The aim of this paper is to help fill this gap, building on previous work from various grammatical sources, from antiquity to mode...

In this paper we will return to a basic question in phonetics: the relation between acoustic cues and perceived phonetic units. The research has been focused on the perception of unvoiced stops. The rationale for conducting the experiments is to further illuminate and support the hypothesis that speech perception is a dynamic and adaptive perceptual process in the interpretation of acoustic cue...

Methods for the evaluation of evidence in the form of measurements by means of the likelihood ratio are becoming more widespread. There is a paucity of methods for the evaluation of evidence in the form of counts by means of the likelihood ratio. Two suggestions for such methods are described. Examples of their performance are illustrated in the context of a problem in forensic phonetics. There...