The study investigates the perception and production of the English vowels /e/ and /æ/ by native speakers of Serbian. The research consisted of perception and production experiments, whose subjects were the first year students of English at Novi Sad University. The results of the perception tests indicate a poor discrimination level between the two L2 vowels. The production tests reveal that bo...

This paper investigates instrumentally for the first time the binary vowel quantity opposition (short vs. long) in Yakut (or Sakha) on the basis of spontaneous production data from nine speakers. Acoustic measurements of vowels in disyllabic words showed a significantly shorter duration of short vowels than their long counterparts. Furthermore, f0 maxima and f0 slope showed effects of both quan...

Mid back vowels [o] and [ɔ] appear to be merging in the Catalan spoken in the region of Girona. In this brief paper, we present preliminary data on the production of these vowels in one of the 12 designated survey points for the study of the phenomenon, the area of Ter-Brugent. The first results in this area show that our speakers present an almost complete merger of the mid back vowel pair, an...

Investigations have been made on the perceptual and acoustic properties of individual phonemes in continuous speech for different speaking rate. Fifteen short sentences spoken by four male speakers have been used as the test material. Each speaker has been asked to pronounce the sentences with three different rates: normal, first and slow. For perceptual experiment, individual CV-syllables have...

Investigations have been made on the perceptual and acoustic properties of individual phonemes in continuous speech for different speaking rate. Fifteen short sentences spoken by four male speakers have been used as the test material. Each speaker has been asked to pronounce the sentences with three different rates: normal, first and slow. For perceptual experiment, individual CV-syllables have...

A pioneering constructivist approach to building a robot that reproduces a developmental process of infants’ vowel acquisition has been conducted by Yoshikawa et al. [1] inspired by the observation in infant study. They have constructed a mother-infant interaction model with robot learning capability and parrot-like teaching by caregiver. However, the robot has not listened his/her own voice, t...

This study assessed the effect of English-language experience on nonnative speakers’ production and perception of English vowels. Twenty speakers each of German, Spanish, Mandarin, and Korean, as well as a control group of 10 native English (NE) speakers, participated. The non-native subjects, who were first exposed intensively to English when they arrived in the United States (mean age"25 year...

One common historical development in languages with distinctively nasalized vowels is the excrescence of coda velar nasals in place of nasalized vowels. For example, the dialect of French spoken in the southwestern part of France (Midi French) is characterized by words ending in the velar nasal [N] where Parisian French has nasalized vowels and no final nasal consonant ([savO) ]~[savON] "soap")...

The paper addresses the question of native speakers’ online awareness and perceptual use of phonetic nasalisation by examining surface nasalisation in two types of surface vowels in Bengali: underlying nasal vowels and nasalised vowels before a nasal consonant. In a cross-modal forced-choice experiment, we investigate the hypothesis that only unpredictable nasalisation is represented and that t...