In this paper, we discuss an automatic event-based recognition system (EBS) that is based on phonetic feature theory and acoustic phonetics. First, acoustic events related to the manner phonetic features are extracted from the speech signal. Second, based on the manner acoustic events, information related to the place phonetic features and voicing are extracted. Most recently, we focused on pla...

This article surveys the major topics of Caucasian phonetics and phonology focusing on those aspects that bear broader implications for general phonetics and phonological theory. The article first presents an acoustic phonetic treatment of phonemic inventories in the three Caucasian families that involves both a review of recent instrumental data on the topic as well as a new analysis of experi...

This study investigated acoustic-phonetics of coronal stop production by adult simultaneous bilingual and monolingual speakers of Canadian English (CE) and Canadian French (CF). Differences in the phonetics of CF and CE include voicing and place of articulation distinctions. CE has a two-way voicing distinction (in syllable initial position) contrasting shortand long-lag VOT; coronal stops in C...

A laboratory course for undergraduate students of phonetics has been developed and tested at the Department of Phonetics at Umeå university. The course consists of exercises designed to acquaint the students with basic acoustic analysis methods, along with a small section on speech perception. All instructions are in the form of web pages. In addition it is posible to administer questionnaires,...

Despite the copious advances in acoustic techniques and devices for measuring and displaying acoustic parameters, a steady component of a phonetician’s scientific method remains to be – to this very day – our hearing. This paper therefore focuses on a historical device shared between acoustics and auditory phonetic analysis: Rudolph Koenig’s Grand Tonometre, consisting of more than a hundred tu...

This article describes an arrangement for simultaneous recording of speech and the geometry of vocal tract. Experimental design is considered from the phonetics point of view. The speech signal is recorded with an acoustic-electrical arrangement and the vocal tract with MRI. Finally, data from pilot measurements on vowels is presented, and its quality is discussed.