Substantive bias affects phonological acquisition in a way that learners may more readily learn phonetically motivated patterns. Some previous experimental work has proved the effect of substantive synchronic context, whereas how influences diachronic changes hardly been studied. This paper investigates role transmission. We employed iterated learning paradigm to compare transmissions two artif...

This study quantifies acoustic variation of vowel nasalization arising from phonetic context in American English with an emphasis on carryover contexts. While qualitative articulatory trajectories and phonetic descriptions suggest that a vowel is nasalized in carryover contexts, few acoustic studies have examined this issue. Our acoustic analyses investigate the vowel /i/ and show that: (1) a v...

Five vowels /i, , æ, (or ), u/ in isolated /CVC/ words produced by 7 American English (AmE) and 6 Australian English (AusE) talkers were examined with a view to documenting acoustic-phonetic similarities and differences between the two accent types. The effect of Accent was significant on all vowels for at least one of the first two formants. The AusE vowel space was much more compressed relati...

Vowel length contrasts in Japanese, e.g., chizu “map” vs. chiizu “cheese”, are cued primarily by vowel duration. However, since short and long vowel durations overlap considerably in ordinary speech, learning to perceive vowel length contrasts is complex. Meanwhile, infant-directed speech (IDS) is known to “exaggerate” certain properties of adult-directed speech (ADS). If so, then it is possibl...

The realisation of the short front vowels in NZE differs from British or American English (RP/AE) and is well documented (cf. Bauer, 1986). However, two crucial questions arise: (1) Do the acoustically different vowel realisations also involve different underlying representations as compared to RP/AE? (2) What is the precise nature of these representations? Previous investigations either sugges...

Abstract We survey templatic diminutive formation in Hungarian. conclude that there is an intricate system of endings are added to bases which truncated if they contain more than one vowel. Bases also subject vowel length changes both directions, as well the palatalization last consonant. The forms not harmony occurring suffixes prevails regular additive morphology language. Nevertheless, these...

Recent work on phonological vowel reduction explains some of its properties by appeal to proposed functional bases (Flemming 1995 [2002], to appear, Crosswhite 2001, to appear, Barnes 2002). This paper explores the feasibility of a Dispersion Theory (DT) account for Russian vowel reduction. No detailed analysis of a case of vowel reduction exists in DT. Also new here is an attempt to base such ...

This paper investigates the effect of vowel quality on the perception of coda nasals in Southern Min. The perceptual confusion experiment revealed that /m/ is the most confusable coda nasal, followed by /ŋ/ and then /n/. The high front vowel /i/ resulted in more misidentification of following coda nasals than mid vowel /ə/ and low vowel /a/. Within the same vowel context, higher formant frequen...