The article is devoted to the analysis of voiceless and voiced stop plosives’ realization in speech Russian-speaking children-bilinguals Germany their parents when reading a phonetically representative text aloud. author measures indicator voice delay time relative moment explosion plosive consonants (voicing onset — VOT) bilingual children parents, as she considers it most reliable acoustic fo...

Discrimination between the voiceless stop consonants !k,p,tl is a subproblern in phoneme-based speech recognition systems. Lack of energy during the pronunciation and the fast transient effects at the end of the phoneme make the recognition difficult. A method of so called Phonotopic Maps [2] was studied in order to develop simple and effective solutions for discrimination. In the following stu...

This paper presents an acoustic study of the phonetic realization of two consonants in Nias (Indonesia), orthographically represented as mb and ndr. These consonants have been analyzed by Catford (1988) and Brown (2001, 2005) as a bilabial trill and an apical trill, respectively. My own cross-dialectal observations indicate that these consonants have multiple realizations in each dialect. This ...

This longitudinal study examined individual patterns and changes in /s/ + stop cluster simplifications of six normally developing children. Subjects produced selected words containing initial voiced and voiceless stops and /s/ + stop clusters at monthly intervals. Speech samples were transcribed phonetically, and voice onset times (VOT) of the stop consonants were measured. The results revealed...

UNLABELLED Vowel durations following the production of voiced and voiceless stop consonants produced during simultaneous communication (SC) were investigated by recording sign language users during SC and speech alone (SA). Under natural speaking conditions, or speaking alone (SA), vowels following voiced stop consonants are longer in duration than vowels following voiceless stops. Although the...

Previous research has shown that 20-month-old infants can simultaneously learn two words that only differ by one of their consonants, but fail to do so when the words differ only by one of their vowels. This asymmetry was interpreted as developmental evidence for the proposal that consonants play a more important role than vowels in lexical specification. However, the consonant/vowel distinctio...

A discrimination paradigm was used to detect the influence of phonetic context on speech ~experiment 1a! and nonspeech ~experiment 1b! stimuli. Results of experiment 1a were consistent with the previously observed phonetic context effect of liquid consonants ~/(/ and /./! on subsequent stop consonant ~/,/ and /$/! perception. Experiment 1b demonstrated a context effect of liquid consonants on s...