Previous studies of duration variation in syllable constituents have yielded results for Polish which are clear outliers in relation to those for other languages. We report on a study of this issue in the context of TTS development, using a large annotated database. Global and local duration distance measures are applied to phoneme and syllable level units, and generalised iambic and trochaic d...

This paper introduces a method to assess lexical stress patterns in American English words automatically using machine learning algorithms, which could be used on the computer assisted language learning (CALL) system. We aim to model human production concerning lexical stress patterns by training stress patterns in a native speaker’s utterances and making use of it to detect erroneous stress pa...

conclusions the findings of this study indicate that the frequency of disfluencies was increased in difficult syllable structures in comparison to simple syllable structures. according to the results, it seems that certain linguistic features, such as syllable structure can affect speech-motor output in people who stutter through affecting phonological encoding. background stuttering is one of ...

This paper proposes a technique of automatic syllable-pattern induction in statistical Thai text-to-phone transcription. A general process of building a statistical text-to-phone transcription is to first define a set of rules describing syllable patterns, which is used for syllabification. Given an input text, the syllabification process generates all possible syllable sequences, which are the...

This paper presents a corpus study of polysyllabic words in Standard Mandarin Chinese. In particular, this study investigates their prosodic features with respect to the notions of prosodic strength and stress. We find a robust strong-weak alternation with respect to F0, but different patterns for duration. In disyllabic words the first syllable tends be slightly longer than the second. However...

A detailed analysis of a unique speech disturbance, marked by the frequent appearance in the speech stream of a meaningless intrusive syllable, is presented. Following a lengthy thoracic surgery, an American English speaking patient began to speak with non-English prosodic patterns, which evolved to a conspicuous intrusion in his speech of the syllable /sis/. This syllable and its variants were...

This study presents a micro-typological description of German dialects, focusing on the structure 13,492 tokens monosyllables, across 182 locations within Germany. Based data from Phonetischer Atlas der Bundesrepublik Deutschland , systematic geographical differences in both segmental and prosodic organization syllables are explored. The analysis reveals North–South contrast syllable structure....

We examined whether Irish speakers syllabify intervocalic consonants as codas (e.g., póca ‘pocket’ /po:k.E/ CVC.V), as claimed by many authors, but contrary to claims in phonological theory of a universal preference for syllables with onsets. We conducted a perception experiment using a part-repetition task and presented auditory stimuli consisting of VCV items with a single medial consonant (C...

Developmental dyslexia is associated with rhythmic difficulties, including impaired perception of beat patterns in music and prosodic stress patterns in speech. Spoken prosodic rhythm is cued by slow (<10 Hz) fluctuations in speech signal amplitude. Impaired neural oscillatory tracking of these slow amplitude modulation (AM) patterns is one plausible source of impaired rhythm tracking in dyslex...