This study aims to provide a better understanding of the phonetic realization of phonation contrast in register contrast languages and its interaction with vowels and tones by comparing the production of two Yi languages: Southern Yi and Bo. Results show that 1) Electroglottographic contact quotient is the essential mechanism of the phonation contrast in both languages; 2) Phonation mainly infl...

The principal physical mechanism of sound generation is similar in songbirds and humans, despite large differences in their vocal organs. Whereas vocal fold dynamics in the human larynx are well characterized, the vibratory behaviour of the sound-generating labia in the songbird vocal organ, the syrinx, is unknown. We present the first high-speed video records of the intact syrinx during induce...

In tonal languages, tones are associated with both and phonological lexical domains. Accurate tone articulation is required in order to convey the correct meaning. Learning at word phrase levels often challenging for L2 learners non-tonal language background, because of possible subtle difference between close tones. this paper, we discuss an adoption StudyIntonation CAPT tools case Vietnamese ...

We introduce a web-based database that gives details of the acoustics of soprano and tenor saxophones for all standard fingerings and some others. It has impedance spectra measured at the mouthpiece and sound files for each standard fingering. We use these experimental impedance spectra to explain some features of saxophone acoustics, including the linear effects of the bell, mouthpiece, reed, ...

The cat inferior colliculus (IC) was studied with 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG). By presenting high-frequency tone bursts to one ear and white noise bursts simultaneously to the other, a band of reduced or inhibitory labeling was revealed in the central nucleus (ICC) of the IC ipsilateral to the ear receiving the tone bursts. It was concluded that this ipsilateral inhibition might be related to the org...

The current study lays the groundwork for a model of Mandarin tones based on both native speakers’ and non-native speakers’ perception and production. It demonstrates that there is variability in non-native speakers’ tone productions and that there are differences in the perceptual boundaries in native speakers and non-native speakers. There are four experiments in this study. Experiment 1 util...

Low-cost testing of Analogue and Mixed-Signal (AMS) cores requires avoiding the use of expensive AMS testers. Testing AMS cores using a digital tester can be achieved by generating on-chip, from digital seeds, the analogue test signals for the core cells and by producing output digital signatures from the cells response. In this paper, we will focus on the on-chip analogue test signal generatio...

It is suggested in this paper that t w o l e v e l morphology theory (Kay, Koskenniemi) can be extended to include morphological tone. This extension treats phonological features as I/O tapes for Finite State Transducers in a parallel sequential incrementation (PSI) architecture; phonological processes (e.g. assimilation) are seen as variants of an elementary unification operation over feature ...

Even if the tuning between the first and second register of a clarinet has been optimized by instrument makers, the lowest twelfths remain slightly too large (inharmonicity). In this article, we study the problem from two different points of view. First, we systematically review various physical reasons why this inharmonicity may take place, and the effect of different bore perturbations insert...

The paper examines a simple conceptual modification of the operation unit of a RISC processor. We propose to substitute a part of the conventional general purpose register file by a shift register for all operation results. The presented approach allows to reduce the instruction size for a great deal of instructions and so the instruction stream, and it is also a promising approach to make the ...