Objectives: The present research aims to study the normal development of Percentage of Consonant Correct (PCC) in Kurdish-speaking children, with Middle Kurmanji-Mukryani Dialect as an Articulation Competency Index (ACI). PCC was examined in terms of the manner of articulation and position of sound in the word.  Methods: In this descriptoanalytical cross-sectional study, 120 Kurdish-speak...

Four forced-choice identification tasks examined the recognition of words containing sounds that have undergone the process of nasal place assimilation (‘phone box’: /n/→[m]) or stop place assimilation (‘cat box’: /t/→[p]). Identification scores and response times were measured for words ending in unassimilated or assimilated coronal consonants, which were either presented in isolation or withi...

This paper reports on revised analysis procedures that are being developed to identify place of articulation for stop consonants. These procedures are being used to examine the sources of variability that exist in the acoustic characteristics of these consonants for different phonetic contexts, speakers, and speaking styles. There are three motivations for this work: (1) to improve models of ar...

A new acoustic-phonetic feature-and knowledge-based approach for the detection and classification of stop consonants in speakerindependent continuous speech is proposed. A system is built which automatically extracts stop consonants from continuous speech. The detected stop consonants are then passed to the classification system, which classifies them according to their voicing and place of art...

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to estimate nasalance due to transpalatal transfer of acoustic energy during production of voiced stop consonants by noncleft speakers. We also determined the relationship between the transpalatal nasalance and fundamental frequency (F0) of the speakers. METHOD Participants were 8 men and 10 women (mean age = 21.9 years, SD = 4.0) without cleft palate who produced ...