The present investigation seeks to assess to what extent some Dutch phonemes can serve as cues in auditory voice identification of telephone speech. Four Dutch consonants, /x/, /r/, /s/ and /p/, occurring in three different contexts in 24 monosyllabic words, were selected on the basis of their different auditory interspeaker variability. The words were pronounced by 16 speakers in two guises, o...

This study measured the accuracy with which human listeners can localize spoken words. A broadband (300 Hz-16 kHz) corpus of monosyllabic words was created and presented tolisteners using a virtual auditory environment. Localization was examined for 76 locations ona sphere surrounding the listener. Experiment 1 showed that low-pass filtering the speech sounds at 8 kHz degraded performance, caus...

This work contains five papers in the area of experimental linguistics. Papers include: (1) "Units of Speech Perception," a study which deals with problems of the temporal organization of speech; (2) a study, "Manner of Articulation, Parallel Processing, and the Perception of Duration," which examines the durational patterns characterizing the production of monosyllabic English words whose syll...

Tracheoesophageal (TE) speech is a possibility to restore the ability to speak after total laryngectomy, i.e. the removal of the larynx. The quality of the substitute voice has to be evaluated during therapy. For the intelligibility evaluation of German speakers over telephone, the Post-Laryngectomy Telephone Test (PLTT) was defined. Each patient reads out 20 of 400 different monosyllabic words...

Case presentation: Male patient, 11 years of age, referred to the service at 1 old, due developmental delay and hypotonia. At birth, presented with difficulty in feeding, 6 months hypotonia was identified. Sat old currently walks assistance, is able speak monosyllabic words tonic syllables, grabs objects difficulty. Electroneuromyography, cranial magnetic resonance, autoimmune tests, urine orga...

The paper investigates the prosodic characteristics, including the temporal structure, F0, and intensity, of the monosyllabic number words (MNW) and compound number words (CNW), bisyllabic and trisyllabic, in Hong Kong Cantonese. Results of analysis show that (i) the rime durations of all the MNW in isolation are reduced when the MNW occur as component MNW in the CNW; (ii) not all the initial c...

The aim of this paper is to shed new light on the behaviour of 5 phonotactic phenomena in French, which have been shown to be rather sensitive to regional and/or stylistic variation: schwa deletion at the initial of polysyllabic words and in monosyllabic grammatical words, liaison, deletion of final postobstruent /l/ and /R/ and of /l/ in the 3 personal clitic subject pronoun ‘il’. The analysis...

We present a new connectionist model of human spelling and investigate some of its properties. Although based on Sejnowski & Rosenberg’s (1987) NETtalk model of reading, it requires no pre-processing of the training data to align the phonemes and letters. The model achieves 100% performance on the training data (2837 monosyllabic words including many irregular words) and has a generalization pe...

Connectionist learning of natural language words and their phonetic regularities is presented. The Neural Network (NN) model we employ in this problem is the Simple Recurrent Network, trained with the Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) learning algorithm. During the training, it was assigned the task of predicting the next phoneme given one phoneme at each moment and keeping information of the...