This study compares the phonetics of phonation categories within and across four languages: Gujarati (modal, breathy), White Hmong (modal, breathy, creaky), Jalapa Mazatec (modal, breathy, creaky), and Southern Yi (tense, lax). In addition to acoustic measures in all four languages, electroglottographic measures were also compared for Gujarati, Hmong, and Yi. Several measures distinguished phon...

The Special Issue (SI) “Phonologically constrained variability in L1 and L2 production and perception” contains a set of papers that substantially expand upon selected oral presentations at the conference Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI), held in Lisbon in 2013. The papers converge in addressing a thematically coherent topic of current theoretical interest and importance at the interfac...

Research into nasal voice quality can be seen to split itself quite neatly two streams. In one, we find sociolinguistic studies of nasality, based on impressionistic analyses and the perceptions opinions naïve listeners. These form basis what know about social attitudes motivations behind voice, but often do not clearly define empirical boundaries is nasal. On other side lies phonetic study nas...

The paper presents the study of speech entrainment in dialogues two interlocutors playing games. calculations degree are based on acoustic characteristics similar phonetic sequences. Formant values stressed vowels these words considered. recordings from new SibLing corpus developed at Department Phonetics St. Petersburg State University, were used as material for study. results confirmed presen...

The understanding of speech melody, i.e., pitch variations related to both tone and intonation, can be improved by simultaneously taking into consideration two basic facts: that the melody conveys communicative meanings, and that it is produced by human articulators. Communicative meanings, as I will argue, are conveyed through a set of separate functions which are realized by an articulatory s...