The two German pitch accents H+L* and L*+H show different duration and intensity patterns in the triplet of pre-accented, accented, and post-accented syllable. Combining the pattern of H+L* with the F0 peak of L*+H and vice versa lowered the identification of the two pitch accents. The implications of these findings for pitch-accent modelling are discussed.

Prosodic information, such as word stress and speech rhythm, is important in language acquisition, and sensitivity to stress patterns is present from birth onwards. Exposure to prosodic properties of the native language occurs prenatally. Preterm birth and an associated lack of exposure to prosodic information are suspected to affect language acquisition in preterm infants. Fifty healthy very l...

In this paper we describe a method that detects and remedies lexical stress errors in unit selection synthesis automatically using machine learning algorithms. If unintended stress patterns can be detected following unit selection, based on features available in the unit database, it may be possible to modify the units during waveform synthesis to correct errors and produce an acceptable stress...

This thesis outlines a phonological representation and corresponding rule framework for modelling constraints on an utterance's acoustic-phonetic pattern. The proposed representation and framework of rules are based on the syllable and suggested as an alternative to other representations that are primarily segment-based. Specifically, the traditional notion of a segment is abandoned at the syst...

this study focuses on one particular sound change common in conversational speech, in which coronal nasal consonants undergo place assimilation toward the following syllable- or word-initial labial consonants. f2 and f3 formant frequency measurements were taken from, and compared between words involving the sequences /vnb/ and /vmb/ across syllable boundary as well as word boundary in assimilat...

This work asks how the syllable as a unit is delimited in space and time. To do this we bring together two theoretical approaches to syllable: sonority-based approach which emphasizes spatial organization, coupled oscillator model (Nam, Goldstein & Saltzman 2009) temporal organization. Many languages present challenges these theories, here focus on Georgian, problematic for both approaches,...

To investigate the role of the syllable in Dutch speech production, five experiments were carried out to examine the effect of visually masked syllable primes on the naming latencies for written words and pictures. Targets had clear syllable boundaries and began with a CV syllable (e.g., ka.no) or a CVC syllable (e.g., kak.tus), or had ambiguous syllable boundaries and began with a CV[C] syllab...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate phonological error patterns from multisyllable words in subgroups speech sound disorders (SSDs) classified by linguistic symptomatology, and examine whether underlying deficits each subgroup SSDs could be identified through patterns. Methods: 2-5-syllable words, which a total 120 children with 3 years 9 11 months produced, were analyzed; ...

This paper analyzes a few significant differences between Spanish and English in relation to phonological patterns. First, short introduction is given about these two languages, it briefly explained what linguistic aspects they are similar or different. Then, each of features analyzed detail, clearly establishing the existing English. The specific that addressed on this academic vowel consonant...

in persian, the only syllable type with consonant clusters is cvcc, where its coda can be filled with two consonants. the present article attempts to find whether these two consonant conform the sonority sequencing principle or not. for this reason, the persian words with cvcc syllable type are gathered from persian dictionaries and are classified based on the vowel filling the nucleus of the s...