This study deals with the allophones of several phonemes pronounced by a voice actor in performing character animation movie. It concerns stylistic analysis phonetic and phonology levels that reinforce performance. The data are taken from utterances spoken Adam Sandler, Count Dracula Hotel Transylvania-2. method is through descriptive qualitative based on approaches. By comparing general Americ...

The present study investigates the effects of prosodic boundary on the acoustic realization of allophonic Mandarin lexical tone creak. Speech of twenty speakers from Mandarin Call Home corpus was analyzed. Results show that stronger creaky voice occurs more often at the end of an utterance than the end of an intermediary phrase, and is least likely to occur phrase medially. The observed creak i...

This study investigates the characteristics of the two major dialects of Japanese: Osaka and Tokyo dialects. We recorded the utterances of the speakers of both dialects, and analysed the differences that appear in the accentuation of the words at the phonetic-acoustic level. The Japanese words that are phonologically identical in both dialects were used as the analysis target. The results showe...

In this paper, we introduce a new component of the EMU Speech Database Management System [1, 2] to improve the team workflow of handling production data (both acoustic and physiological) in phonetics and the speech sciences. It is named emuDB Manager, and it facilitates the coordination of team efforts, possibly distributed over several nations, by introducing automatic revision control (based ...

Palatalisation of /l/ in obstruent + lateral onset clusters in the absence of a following palatal sound has received a considerable amount of attention from historical linguistics. The phonetics of its development, however, remains less wellinvestigated. This paper aims at studying the acoustic cues that could have led plosive + lateral onset clusters to develop palatalisation. It is found that...

We describe a prototype implementation of a representational approach to acoustic-phonetics in knowledge-based speech recognition. Our scheme is based on the 'Speech Sketch', a structure which enables acoustic evidence and phonetic knowledge to be represented in similar ways, so that like can be compared with like. The process of building the Speech Sketch begins with spectrogram image processi...

By-Delattre, Pierre Comparing the Vocalic Features of English, German, Spanish, and French. Pub Date 64 Note-28p. Journal CitIRAL; v2 n2 p71-97 1964 EDRS Price MF -S0.25 HC-S1.50 Descriptors-Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Charts, *Comparative Analysis, English, French, German, Illustrations, Language Instruction, Language Research, Linguistics, *Modern Languages, Phonetic Analysis, ...

In this paper we discuss some issues in processing speech signals, especially for isolated utterances of characters of a language. For processing this speech signal we have no clues of higher level linguistic information such a s prosodics, lexical, syntax, and semantics. Any representation of signals in terms of fixed parameters for each short (10-20 msec) segment is not likely to provide the ...

This book offers a comprehensive description of the phonetic and phonological features of Sumi, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nagaland, North-east India. It represents the first in-depth investigation of the acoustic phonetics and phonology of tone in Sumi, and is one of the first extensive acoustic descriptions of a language of Nagaland. The book describes the segmental phonology, syllable struc...