Using cross-linguistic evidence from the relationship of epenthetic vowel choice to the vowel system of a given language, this paper proposes a set of context-free markedness constraints on vowel features. Universally ranked constraints yield the result that front vowels are more marked than back and that round vowels are marked; languages may vary in how they rank the markedness of low and non...

This paper is an acoustic phonetic description of the vowels and diphthongs in the Yi county dialect and compares the diphthongized vowels with monophthongs and diphthongs in terms of their temporal structures and spectral characteristics. Results show that rising diphthongs have two targets while falling diphthongs only have one dynamic target. Diphthongized vowels occur as an intermediate cat...

Previous studies on the acoustic properties of Greek vowels have indicated that they may have voiceless realisations in certain phonological contexts. Researchers have suggested that such devoicing is restricted to the high vowels /i/ and /u/ [7], [10]. Analysis of production data from 12 native Greek speakers suggests that devoicing is not restricted to the high vowels but that other vowels ca...

Arabic texts suffer from missing short vowels. Speech Recognition is not as good English speech recognition due to the vowels being recognized. And language unlike in characteristics such number of has more than 24 that are close each other pronunciation. The only three far utter and measurement, by elongating those vowels, long arose. Researchers said could be recognized using formants. forman...

Recent vowel corpora show that there are often clear acoustic differences between vowels produced in different phonetic contexts. We expand on a recent corpus of Northern Standard Dutch (NSD) vowels by including a variety of consonantal contexts. Our results show that there are very clear contextual effects on the spectral and temporal properties of NSD vowels. The most striking effect is the a...

Neutral vowels are vowels that may intervene between the trigger and target of a harmony pattern even when they bear the opposite value for the harmonizing feature. Despite the significant body of work on and the crucial role of vowel harmony in phonological theory, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the low-level phonetic properties of neutral vowels. We examine a prototypical e...

This paper presents multi-font/multi-size Kannada numerals and vowels recognition based on spatial features. Directional spatial features viz stroke density, stroke length and the number of stokes in an image are employed as potential features to characterize the printed Kannada numerals and vowels. Based on these features 1100 numerals and 1400 vowels are classified with Multi-class Support Ve...