There is a systematic relationship between stress accent and pronunciation variation in spontaneous American English discourse. Although all constituents of the syllable are affected by accent, its impact is particularly manifest in the nucleus and coda. For example, height of the vocalic nucleus is closely associated with accent weight, and deletion of coda and onset segments is far more commo...

We present a white-box conceptual framework for adaptation developed in the context of the EU Project ASCENS coordinated by Martin Wirsing. We called it CoDa, for Control Data Adaptation, since it is based on the notion of control data. CoDa promotes a neat separation between application and adaptation logic through a clear identification of the set of data that is relevant for the latter. The ...

Algerian Arabic is an Arabic dialect spoken in Algeria characterized by the absence of writing resources and standardization, hence it is considered as an under-resourced language. It differs from Modern Standard Arabic on all levels of linguistic representation, from phonology and morphology to lexicon and syntax. In this paper, we present a conventional orthography for Algerian Arabic, follow...

In this paper, we use articulatory measures to determine whether Dutch schwa epenthesis is an abstract phonological process or a concrete phonetic process depending on articulatory timing. We examine tongue position during }l} before underlying schwa and epenthetic schwa and in coda position. We find greater tip raising before both types of schwa, indicating light }l} before schwa and dark }l} ...

Effective coordination of distributed human planners requires timely communication of relevant information to ensure the overall coherence of activities and the compatibility of assumptions. This paper presents a system called CODA that provides targeted information dissemination among distributed human planners as a way of improving coordination. Within CODA, each planner declares interest in ...

We use ultrasound to explore the lingual articulation of /hVd/ and /hVl/ rhymes from an Australian English speaker, focusing on the coarticulatory interactions between the VC rhyme components. Results reveal vowel height as a major factor conditioning lateral undershoot. We also find that back vowel tongue contours overlap extensively with the coda lateral providing a conditioning environment f...

Previous research shows that 2-year-olds’ production of third person singular -s, but not plural -s, is affected by coda complexity, though both are more accurately produced in durationally longer utterance-final compared to utterancemedial position. This study explores these effects with possessive -s. Acoustic analysis of 10 two-years-olds’ elicited imitations examined children’s use of simpl...

Three groups of listeners, one with a /p,t,k/ stop system in the syllable coda (Dutch), one with /p,k,?/ (ChaoShan) and one with / p,t,k,?/ (ZhangQuan) were asked to identify the final C in CVC-stimuli as one of the consonants [p,t,k,?]. Identification was affected by the nature of the coda C and the V. The identification of the bilabial stop significantly increases after /i/, that of the velar...

Gene synthesis is hampered by two obstacles: improper assembly of oligonucleotides; oligonucleotide defects incurred during chemical synthesis. To overcome the first problem, we describe the employment of a Computationally Optimised DNA Assembly (CODA) algorithm that uses the degeneracy of the genetic code to design overlapping oligonucleotides with thermodynamic properties for self-assembly in...

This paper proposes a model of differential tonal perception in which perception of tonal movement in spoken language i s influenced by syllable structure. In the proposed model, tonal movement at syllable onset is perceptually coded differently from movement in the syllable nucleus or in the coda. An F0 contour through the syllable onset or at the beginning of the nucleus is coded as a level t...