The distribution of geminate obstruents in Japanese loanwords appears very complex. Some consonants are more prone to gemination than others, on the one hand, and one and the same consonant is more likely to geminate in some phonological contexts than in others, on the other hand. This paper tackles these problems by considering the relationship between consonant gemination in native words and ...

Nasa Yuwe is an indigenous language from Colombia (South America), it is, to some extent, an endangered language. Different efforts have been done to revitalize it, the most important of which being the unification of the Nasa Yuwe alphabet. The Nasa Yuwe vowel system has 32 vowels contrasting in nasalization, length, aspiration and glottalization, causing great confusion for the learner. In or...

  Numerous studies conducted in laboratory animals and humans indicate that angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors reinforce memory and learning. In this paper we study the effect of injection of enalapril into the cerebral ventricles on spatial memory of white mice in the double- y maze, following the induction of an Alzheimer- like amnestic model with scopolamine. To estimate the duration o...

PURPOSE This collaborative study investigated phonological patterns in 12 typically developing 4-year-old bilingual (Spanish-English) children. METHOD A single-word phonological assessment with separate versions for English and Spanish was administered to each child. Analyses consisted of a phonetic inventory; percentage of consonants correct; percentage of consonants correct for voicing, pla...

This paper describes the use of a combination of intra-oral sensory stimulation and electropalatography (EPG) in the treatment of a case with severe developmental verbal dyspraxia. A multiple-baseline design was used. The treatment duration was 11 months and started when the subject was 5 years old. The efficacy of the treatment was assessed by calculations of percentage of correctly articulate...

Introduction: Tinnitus is a perception of sound without external source. For complete assessment of tinnitus, central auditory processing abilities should be considered in addition to the routine psychological evaluation of tinnitus characteristics. Temporal processing is one of the important auditory skills that are necessary for complex higher level auditory processing.   Materials and Method...

BACKGROUND Obese people have abnormal deposition of fat in the vocal tract that can interfere with the acoustic voice. Aim : To relate the fundamental frequency, the maximum phonation time and voice complaints from a group of morbidly obese women. METHODS Observational, cross-sectional and descriptive study that included 44 morbidly obese women, mean age of 42.45 (± 10.31) years old, observat...

The aim of the present work was to find the answer to the question: To what extent can the multilayer perceptron be applicable in the automatic vowel recognition process in any given fragments of a particular speaker? Initial research was carried out with the use of recordings of 3 adult people’s speech. Vowel recognition was performed with the application of multilayer perceptron. On the input...

Human listeners are better able to identify two simultaneous vowels if the fundamental frequencies of the vowels are different. A computational model is presented which, for the first time, is able to simulate this phenomenon at least qualitatively. The first stage of the model is based upon a bank of bandpass filters and inner hair-cell simulators that simulate approximately the most relevant ...

Semitic languages pose a problem to Natural Language Processing since most of the vowels are omitted from written prose, resulting in considerable ambiguity at the word level. However, while reading text, native speakers can generally vocalize each word based on their familiarity with the lexicon and the context of the word. Methods for vowel restoration in previous work involving morphological...