In this study we investigated the coordination of consonantal and vocalic gestures in Tashlhiyt Berber as a function of their subsyllabic constituency. The aim was to determine whether the syllabification proposed of word initial clusters is reflected in the coordination of articulatory gestures. Two main results were obtained: (1) The timing of consonants in word initial clusters in relation t...

Over the past decades a number of research findings have illustrated the extraordinary robustness and flexibility of human speech perception, which combines sensitivity to surprisingly detailed aspects of systematic context-governed variability in word forms with an ability to extract information about the speaker's intended words from minimal information in a sometimes highly reduced signal. S...

We have investigated whether variation in vowel insertion after word-final English and French postvocalic plosives in Korean adaptation has changed at a two-decade interval by collecting English and French loanword data in the early 1990s and the year 2011. The comparison of our 2011 data to the early 1990s data has revealed that the overall frequency of final vowel insertion and that of no vow...

Phonological priming between spoken words was examined using CVCVC bisyllabic pseudoword primes and word or pseudoword targets. The influence of different types of overlap was compared, prime and target sharing the coda, the rime or the final syllable. The task was target shadowing. Two priming conditions were used, the auditory targets being preceded by auditory primes in unimodal and by visua...

Research shows that cross-dialect lexical recognition can be asymmetrical, favouring non-dominant dialect speakers and prejudicing dominant-dialect speakers [10]. We ask if non-dominant dialect speakers exhibit similar perceptual effects when exposed to modified L2 input that aligns with their particular L1 dialect. The dialect feature examined is Spanish coda [-s]-aspiration. Participants were...

The Coda Wave Interferometry (CWI) analysis serves to monitor the variation of propagation velocity in a heterogeneous medium with high precision (10−3% in relative terms). In combination with acoustoelastic theory, this type of analysis offers an NDT method for stress evaluation and/or damage detection. Since the CWI method is intended to evaluate extreme levels of accuracy, the presence of bi...