Cross-language perception of phonetic features was investigated via an experiment in which native speakers of Korean and English identified speech sounds varying across voicing (voiced vs. voiceless), place of articulation (labial vs. coronal), and manner of articulation (stop vs. fricative) features as well as prosodic context (syllable initial vs. syllable final). Because Korean has no anteri...

For stimuli modeling stop consonants varying in the acoustic correlates of voice onset time (VOT), human listeners are more likely to perceive stimuli with lower f0's as voiced consonants--a pattern of perception that follows regularities in English speech production. The present study examines the basis of this observation. One hypothesis is that lower f0's enhance perception of voiced stops b...

This paper provides an overview of theoretical and experimental investigations of voiced geminates in Japanese. Active discussion was initiated by Nishimura’s (2003) discovery that in Japanese loanword phonology, voiced geminates can be devoiced, when they co-occur with another voiced obstruent (e.g. /doggu/ → /dokku/). This context-sensitive devoicing of geminates has received much theoretical...

There are various methods to improve signal under the clipped environment of voiced sound in the voice signal processing. In the case of the majority of clipping signal restoration, it will be concentrated in sound quality deterioration of low frequency as they are converged into voiced sound from the characteristic viewpoint of sound quality deterioration. Therefore, in the case of clipping of...

This paper presents the phonetic description of a three-way phonemic contrast in the medial stops (lenis, fortis, and voiced fortis stops) of a southern dialect of Northern Paiute. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of VOT, closure duration, and voice quality was performed on field recordings of a female speaker from the 1950s. The findings include that: 1) voiced fortis stops are realized p...

• has rich morphology -> many word forms. Phonetics Amharic has a set of 38 phones, seven vowels and thirty-one consonants. Consonants Manner Voicing Place of Articulation of Art/n Lab Dent Pal Vel Glo Stops Voiceless p[p] t[t] m[t∫ ] k[k] …[?] Voiced b[b] d[d] ¥[d ] g[g] GlottalizedÍ[p‘] μ[t‘] 1⁄2[t∫ ‘]q[q] Rounded [kw], [gw], [qw] Fricatives Voiceless f[f] s[s] ][∫ ] h[h] Voiced z[z] •[ ] Glo...

This paper analyses the pronunciation of 24 students in Guangxi, south China, based on their reading a short text. It reports that the occurrence of [w] in place of /v/ is one of the most salient features of their pronunciation. In addition, they tend to use [s] for voiceless TH and [d] for voiced TH, omit dark /l/ in the coda of words such as full and wolf, merge long and short vowels such as ...