The lambeosaurine Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus has traditionally been reconstructed with an elevated, hollow, spike-like crest composed entirely of the nasal bones, although this has been disputed. Here, we provide a new reconstruction of the skull of this species based on reexamination and reinterpretation of the morphology and articular relationships of the type and Paratype skulls and a fragmen...

Investigation on human speaker identification enables us to know the indexical cues to speakers, and it may consequently lead to the effective acoustical parameters that can be used for forensic speaker recognition. It is known that speaker individuality interacts with the phonological or linguistic information contained in speech signals. As proof, the accuracy of perceptual speaker identifica...

Production of nasal vowels in French, and nasal consonants in French and English, was examined using real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI). The coordination of velic and lingual gestures was found to be tightly controlled across different prosodic contexts in French nasals. Velum lowering in English nasal consonants did not show the same control, although the timing of the corresponding ...

A series of vowel-identification experiments using gated consonant stimuli shows that English listeners are capable of recovering the vocalic context in which a consonant appears from information contained in the consonant alone. This is true for most consonants tested, including liquids, nasals, and stops in onset and coda position. Positional asymmetries in vowel sensitivity go in opposite di...

San Francisco English has been previously identified as distinct from Californian English, based on its maintenance of a low back vowel distinction [13]. Subsequent work has shown participation in the low back merger and other Californian sound changes [15]. We present an analysis of the front and central vowels involved in the California Vowel Shift: KIT, DRESS, TRAP, and STRUT. Previous work ...

This paper is a report on field work in progress on two Austronesian language groups: the Rejang, spoken in Bengkulu and South Sumatra Provinces of Indonesia; and h /bidayəh/ [bidayɨh]) spoken in the Serian District, Sarawak, Malaysia.1 Of particular interest is a change raising PMP *-aC > -/əC/ in Bukar-Sadong, but not before a final velar: e.g. *bulan > /burən/ „moon‟ but *anak > /anak/ „chil...

This paper addresses the problem of binary phoneme classification via a neural net segment-based approach. Phoneme groups are categorized based on articulatory information. For an efficient segmental acoustic properties capture, the phoneme associated with a speech segment is represented using MFCC’s features extracted from different portions of that segment as well as its duration. These porti...

Nasalized veolar consonant [g] in continuous Japanese is often observed in some dialect and is said to decrease in frequency year by year. This paper deals with acoustic and perceptual analysis of this phenomenon. Test materials used in this experiment are read version of Japanese short sentences by NHK’s (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) professional announcers. Each sentence includes at least ...