Standard varieties of Chinese and English have major typological prosodic differences, which present considerable difficulties for Chinese L2 learners of English at all levels: first, differences in the phonotactic foundations of prosody (syllable and syllable sequence patterns); second, the difference between lexical tone language and lexical stress-accent language; third, timing differences i...

The study was designed to test a coarticulatory origin for the long-short segment duration pattern typical of syllable onset clusters. The hypothesis was that the internal members of these clusters are shortened due to coproduction with the following vowel. Specifically, the internal consonants are terminated when the downward-moving jaw makes for inefficient consonantal articulation. To test t...

This paper reports a perceptual identification study for Mandarin sounds, tones and whole syllables, using phonotactically plausible non-word stimuli covered in white noise. The results showed that while the accuracy of whole-syllable identification could be estimated by the independent accuracy of initial and final identification, syllable-level confusability patterns were related to, but not ...

Dyslexia is associated with impaired neural representation of the sound structure of words (phonology). The "phonological deficit" in dyslexia may arise in part from impaired speech rhythm perception, thought to depend on neural oscillatory phase-locking to slow amplitude modulation (AM) patterns in the speech envelope. Speech contains AM patterns at multiple temporal rates, and these different...

The aim of the present study is to capture the variation of continuous phonetic parameters associated with distinct phonological syllable organisations in Tashlhiyt Berber and Polish. In a first step, we investigate stability patterns for simple and complex onset coordination based on EMA data. In a second step, we test the degree of perturbation of the stability patterns under variation of pho...

This study examines English-speaking children's truncation patterns (i.e., syllable deletion patterns) in multisyllabic words to determine if they are consistent with metrical constraints or perceptual biases. It also examines segmental influences on children's truncations. Children, age 22-34 months, produced three-syllable novel and real words and four-syllable real words, which varied across...

This paper looks at stress assignation for unknown foreign words read aloud by Scottish subjects. The syllable structure and syllable weight of the written words is examined, to determine where stress is most likely to be placed according to English stress rules, and the stress rules for the languages of origin of the words are also described. The stress patterns in the spoken responses are the...

The paper focuses on the phonetic realisation of the Livonian stød. An investigation of the temporal and tonal characteristics of words with and without stød consisting of a long first syllable and a short second syllable in spontaneous speech was carried out. The changes in pitch alignment, durations and duration ratios of the syllables in disyllabic words were analysed and the role of intensi...

This paper compares prominence that listeners perceive with actual articulatory prominence. We calculated phrasal boundaries from articulatory patterns using an algorithm of the C/D model, and compared those calculated boundaries with perceived boundaries. The jaw displacements, measures of prominence, were measured using EMA; articulatory boundaries were derived from a C/D model algorithm. The...

This paper investigates reduplication in Kodi, an under-documented and understudied language spoken Sumba Island, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, eastern Indonesia. Reduplication Kodi shows various patterns that fall under two major types: full partial reduplication. Full mostly involves of the entire disyllabic base. In reduplication, salient are copied initial parts (a syllable a foot), interna...