Despite the importance of phonemic awareness in beginning literacy, several studies have demonstrated that adults, including teacher trainees, have surprisingly poor phonemic skills. Three experiments investigated whether adults’ responses in phonemic awareness and spelling segmentation tasks are based on units larger than single letters and phonemes. Responses often involved large units, and t...

Learning Korean as a foreign language requires accurate pronunciation. has 3 characteristics of consonants, namely basic fortic and aspirate consonants. This study aims to describe the phonological interference consonants that occurs from Indonesian Korean. uses qualitative descriptive research method find out what transfers are found when speakers pronounce words with three types in The subjec...

We address a key problem in grapheme-tophoneme conversion: the ambiguity in mapping grapheme units to phonemes. Rather than using single letters and phonemes as units, we propose learning chunks, or subwords, to reduce ambiguity. This can be interpreted as learning a lexicon of subwords that has minimum description length. We implement an algorithm to build such a lexicon, as well as a simple d...

The paper considers the algorithm of continuous speech segmentation into basic units, namely phonemes, certain combination of phonemes and pauses. The algorithm is based on speech signal transformation into a two-dimensional image, i.e. an autocorrelation portrait. To determine the boundaries of speech units the portraits of the analyzed signal are aligned with the model portraits of each speec...

In this paper1, we present an approach to automatically revealing phonological correspondences within historically related languages. We create two bilingual pronunciation dictionaries for the language pairs German-Dutch and GermanEnglish. The data is used for automatically learning phonological similarities between the two language pairs via EMbased clustering. We apply our models to predict f...

In previous work we have defined a pseudosyllable unit for an English read speech recognition task. In this study we investigate the robustness of extraction of the pseudosyllable units and investigate how such units can be integrated into speech recognition systems. An evaluation method that maps hypothesis phonemes to reference phonemes is proposed. Analysis is performed on pseudosyllables ex...

the smallest structure of a language which makes words, sentences and verses and is the basic element of the quranic miracle is a phoneme. the phonemes are studied in two aspects: 1. each phoneme itself that is concentrated on the qualities and the vent which its sounds out; 2. the combination of the phonemes which is concentrated on the segments, spaces and … the interpreters of the quran have...

The McGurk effect is a compelling illusion in which humans auditorily perceive mismatched audiovisual speech as a completely different syllable. In this study evidences are provided that professional musicians are not subject to this illusion, possibly because of their finer auditory or attentional abilities. 80 healthy age-matched graduate students volunteered to the study. 40 were musicians o...

To investigate the early stage of speech development, the phoneme duration in an infant’s utterances and in a mother’s infant-directed speech (IDS) was analyzed for an infant between the ages of 4 and 45 months. In infant utterances, the durations of vowels and special moras gradually decrease as a function of month in entire period, whereas consonants such as fricatives, plosives, and semivowe...

This paper proposes a phoneme lattice based TextTiling approach towards multilingual story segmentation. The phoneme is the smallest segmental unit in a language and the number of phonemes in a language is usually far smaller than the number of words. Furthermore, many phonemes are shared by different languages. These properties make phonemes particularly appropriate for representing multilingu...