"\Ye describe the representation of synthetic stopconsonants in a computational model of the mammalian dorsal cochlear nucleus. The speech stimuli have different values of voice-onset time (VOT) and are Iabelied by adult listeners as either /ga/ or /ka/, with a phonetic boundary at 44 ms VOT. The responses of the model's Type IV units to these stimuli also fall into two clear categories with a ...

Does experience with a perceptual cue for a phoneme contrast in the native language affect its use in a second language for a similar contrast in a different phonetic context? Two experiments investigated Dutch and English listeners' use of preceding vowel duration as a perceptual cue for nonword-final fricative voicing in English. Dutch listeners have native language experience with the use of...

Two parallel acoustic analyses were performed for French and English sibilant sequences, based on comparably structured read-speech corpora. They comprised all sequences of voiced and voiceless alveolar and postalveolar sibilants that can occur across word boundaries in the two languages, as well as the individual alveolar and postalveolar sibilants, combined with preceding or following labial ...

In this paper, we present an iterative method for the accurate estimation of amplitude and frequency modulations (AM–FM) in time-varying multi-component quasi-periodic signals such as voiced speech. Based on a deterministic plus noise representation of speech initially suggested by Laroche et al. (“HNM: A simple, efficient harmonic plus noise model for speech,” Proc. WASPAA, Oct., 1993, pp. 169...

Whispered vowels, produced with no vocal fold vibration, lack the periodic temporal fine structure which in voiced vowels underlies the perceptual attribute of pitch (a salient auditory cue to speaker sex). Voiced vowels possess no temporal fine structure at very short durations (below two glottal cycles). The prediction was that speaker-sex discrimination performance for whispered and voiced v...

Abstract The current study is a partial replication of Flege and Port (Language Speech 24(2):125–146, 1981), which examined the production pre-fortis clipping (i.e., vowel shortening before voiceless obstruents) by Saudi L2 English speakers. In addition, it whether language experience operationalized as length residence in an English-speaking country, had any positive effect on 16 speakers were...

Speech production research has demonstrated that the first language (L1) often interferes with production in bilinguals' second language (L2), but it has been suggested that bilinguals who are L2-dominant are the most likely to suppress this L1-interference. While prolonged contextual changes in bilinguals' language use (e.g., stays overseas) are known to result in L1 and L2 phonetic shifts, co...

The purpose of this research conducted at the information section Sentani airport is to be able design and build an application system for converting text voice using FSA method, so that later can help inform airport. results study are a conversion built assist in informing airport, by implementing method Delphi, obtained with input output Indonesian English, contains report; used break words i...