This study presents an acoustical investigation of the melodic differences between Orkney and Shetland dialects. Typical melodic profiles of short statements and (yes/no) questions were derived for Orkney and Shetland. Differences were found in overall pitch (Orkney > Shetland, both valley and peak pivot points), and in the temporal alignment of the accent-lending rise-fall contours, which are ...

A quantitative characterization of articulatory movements, using the parameter values of a linear second-order dynamical system, was developed in order to compare classes of movements, in particular, classes defined by linguistic factors such as syllable position, stress, and vowel quality. Movements of the lower lip in utterances such as ['bibebib] and [babe'bab] were partitioned into sections...

This report presents a method for investigation of speech planning processes that uses a stop-signal paradigm. An experiment was conducted to investigate how produced speech rhythm and syllable stress influence the ability to halt speech in mid-utterance. Subjects produced three sentences with precisely controlled metrical patterns, and on 75% of trials were given a signal at a random time to s...

In this study, the effects of syllable position, syllable type and vowels on the intensity of disyllabic words in Sundanese are analyzed. It is shown from the result that, in Sundanese, for disyllabic words, the first syllable tends to be stressed, so the intensity values of vowels in the first syllable are larger than that in the second syllable. As the CVC syllable is phonologically heavier t...

Our study is concerned with the modelling of intonation in Swedish, primarily prose reading. It is basically a superposition model with accentuation patterns added to prosodic base contours with prescribed onset, offset and declination. Boundary conditions at a juncture are related to sentence type and pause duration. There are several novel features of our approach. It is based on analysis of ...

Speech recognition based on the syllable segment is discussed in the paper. Special emphasis is put on the methods for estimation of syllable boundaries and methods of comparison of syllable segments by DTW algorithms. The method of characteristic function for estimating of the boundaries between syllable segments is introduced. This method is also utilized in the proposed DTW algorithm for syl...

PURPOSE To determine if speech error patterns in preschoolers with speech sound disorders (SSDs) predict articulation and phonological awareness (PA) outcomes almost 4 years later. METHOD Twenty-five children with histories of preschool SSDs (and normal receptive language) were tested at an average age of 4;6 (years;months) and were followed up at age 8;3. The frequency of occurrence of presc...

Four studies using a variant of the conditioned head turning procedure, in which response latencies to extraneous noises occurring at different junctures within synthetic syllable strings served as the dependent variable, investigated 6and 9-month-old infants’ representations of familiar and novel syllable pairs manifesting diverse rhythmic patterns. Familiar bisyllables tended to be perceived ...

Sound patterns in the speech of two Brazilian-Portuguese speaking children are compared with early production patterns in English-learning children as well as English and Brazilian-Portuguese (BP) characteristics. The relationship between production system effects and ambient language influences in the acquisition of early sound patterns is of primary interest, as English and BP are characteriz...

In this paper, we will describe a Korean transliterated foreign word extraction algorithm. In the proposed method, we reformulate the foreign word extraction problem as a syllable-tagging problem such that each syllable is tagged with a foreign syllable tag or a pure Korean syllable tag. Syllable sequences of Korean strings are modelled by Hidden Markov Model whose state represents a character ...