Prosodic influences on phonetic realizations of four Dutch consonants (/t d s z/) were examined. Sentences were constructed containing these consonants in word-initial position; the factors lexical stress, phrasal accent and prosodic boundary were manipulated between sentences. Eleven Dutch speakers read these sentences aloud. The patterns found in acoustic measurements of these utterances (e.g...

In spite of decades of research, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is far from reaching the goal of performance close to Human Speech Recognition (HSR). One of the reasons for unsatisfactory performance of the state-of-the-art ASR systems, that are based largely on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), is the inferior acoustic modeling of low level or phonetic level linguistic information in the speech...

The mapping of phonetic information to lexical representations in second-language (L2) listening was examined using an eyetracking paradigm. Japanese listeners followed instructions in English to click on pictures in a display. When instructed to click on a picture of a rocket, they experienced interference when a picture of a locker was present, that is, they tended to look at the locker inste...

the holy surah “al- shams” with its effective musical sound is striking in ear and heart and includes various meanings in its few words. shortness of distances and abundance of swears and various contradictions is evident in it which led me to study it in three levels of stylistics: phonetic level, combination level and semantic level.the aim of this study is to explore the beauties of its styl...

Same-different reaction times (RTs) were obtained to pairs of synthetic speech sounds ranging perceptually from /ba/ through /pa/. Listeners responded "same" if both stimuli in a pair were the same phonetic segments (i.e., /ba/-/ba/ or /pa/-/pa/) or "different" if both stimuli were different phonetic segments (i.e., /ba/-/pa/ or /pa/-/ba/). RT for "same" responses was faster to pairs of acousti...

Acoustic-phonetic landmarks provide robust cues for speech recognition and are relatively invariant between speakers, speaking styles, noise conditions and sampling rates. The ability to detect acoustic-phonetic landmarks as a front-end for speech recognition has been shown to improve recognition accuracy. Biomimetic inter-spike intervals and average signal level have been shown to accurately c...

Abstract The aim of this study was to find the appropriate type of translation of English brand names Iranian consumers prefer, i.e. phonetic, semantic and phonosemantic types of translation. Also, it was aimed at examining the type of font size Iranian consumers tends to see on packages of English products. To this end, the distinction between male and female participants as well as the partic...

The article is devoted to the analysis of spectrographic characteristics defective sounds pronunciation in children with minimal dysarthric disorders (mild dysarthria). These were obtained process an experimental-phonetic study. It involved study nature changes that occur during transition from one sound another and also a single sound. presents results experiment carried out on basis qualitati...

Standard phonological representations provide only a very coarse-grained specification of the phonetic properties of a word or phrase. That is, representation in terms of standard phonological features and timing units corresponds approximately to the level of detail contained in a broad phonetic transcription, and the representation of time is in many ways even more limited. For example, consi...