Kaytetye is an Australian language with a unique combination of phonemic pre-stopping in its nasals series, as well as non-contrastive pre-stopping in its lateral series. In this paper, we describe two phonetic correlates of pre-stopping in Kaytetye, segmental duration and extent of tongue movement. With nasals, pre-stopped segments are longer and have greater tongue movement than their plain c...

Of all the sounds in any language, nasals are the only class of sounds with dominant speech output from the nasal cavity as opposed to the oral cavity. This gives nasals some special properties including presence of zeros in the spectrum, concentration of energy at lower frequencies, higher formant density, higher losses, and stability. In this paper we propose acoustic correlates for the lingu...

With neurophysiological (N100) and explicit behavioral measures (two-alternative forced-choice categorization), we investigated how the processing of nasal segments of German is affected by following context phonemes and their place of articulation. We investigated pre-lexical processing, with speech stimuli excised from naturally spoken utterances. Participants heard nasals (/n/, /m/, and plac...

In a phoneme-based speaker-adaptive automatic recognition system for continuous English speech, a segmentation algorithm for nasals uses automatically derived thresholds on spectral energy measures. A Gaussian classifier using formant information with duration, two compound measures, 'and a 'spectral contrast' measure, is applied to the hypothesised nasal segments, which are classified phonemic...

This research aims to study the feature of nasals in Kanayatn Dayak language, spoken West Kalimantan, Indonesia, and whether they are replacive or additive particular initial phonemes root. The data were collected by recording interviewing five informants 45-55 years old native speakers Dayak. Through descriptive linguistics approach describe linguistic features nasals, this revealed that could...

The acoustic properties of voiced sonorants are said to be speaker-dependent, and it is also reported that these sounds are effective for identifying the speakers. In our previous experiments, we found that the nasal sounds are highly effective for speaker identification by listening, and that the inter-speaker distances in the spectra were also greater in nasals than in oral sounds. This prese...