In current theories of word reading the structure and operations of the phonological buffer are quite underspecified. We investigated this issue by running a reading aloud experiment in Italian. We adopted a priming paradigm, with three-syllabic words as primes and targets and we jointly manipulated two effects ascribed to the stage of phonological and phonetic encoding, that is stress priming ...

Rule-based email filters mainly rely on the occurrence of critical words to classify spam messages. However, perceptive obfuscation techniques can be used to elude exact pattern matching. In this paper we propose a new technique for filtering obfuscated email spam that performs approximate pattern matching both on the original message and on its phonetic transcription.

This methodological paper attempts to bring the problem of pseudoreplication to the attention of the phonetic community. Pseudoreplication refers to the treatment of dependent observations as independent data points, which causes an overabundance of erroneously significant results. The relevance of this problem is demonstrated by analyses of phonetic data, and it is shown that the problem occur...

Phonetic transcription is a core procedure of continuous speech recognition systems and speech synthesizers. The more correct phonetic translation is the more successful applications using phonetic transcription are. Phonological rules translate text to graphemes. These rules significantly reduce size of databases with words and it’s phonetic transcription and speeds up transcription process. T...