Talkers with normal hearing hyperarticulate vowels in lexically hard words (i.e., a low word frequency and high neighborhood density) relative to easy words. This difference articulation has been attributed normal-hearing talkers making listener-oriented articulatory adjustments facilitate intelligibility of their own speech. The extent which adult cochlear implant users exhibit these tendencie...

This paper presents a monosyllabic Thai tone recognition system. The system is composed of three main processes, fundamental frequency (F0) extraction from input speech signal, analysis of F0 contour for feature extraction, and classification of each tone using the extracted features. In the F0 feature extraction, the polynomial regression functions are employed to fit the segmented F0 curve wh...

1 Project 19774035. Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China. This research is conducted under guidance of two professors: Bao Huaiqiao, Choijongjab. [Abstract] This thesis proves that the main acoustic feature of Mongolian bisyllabic words is the duration of the vowels after analysis and generalization of the acoustic pattern of the prosodic features of monosyllabic and bisyll...

Twenty subjects with normal hearing and 15 subjects with mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing losses were tested with eight lists of words using monosyllabic pronunciation to determine word recognition scores. Four of the lists were taken from Northwestern University Test No. 6 and four were simply made up by randomly selecting words from a dictionary. All of the word lists were used to deter...

This report describes a pilot study investigating whether adult listeners are able to identify the dialect of child speakers from the recordings of isolated words. The recorded children are either speaking a Stockholm dialect or a Scanian dialect. Despite low agreement between the nine adult listeners, the results show that adult listeners can indeed identify dialect even in isolated short word...

The present study addressed the effects of aging on auditory serial-recall performance for natural and synthetic words. Word difficulty, measured in terms of frequency of occurrence and phonological similarity, and rate of presentation were also manipulated in an effort to determine which processes underlying serial-recall performance, if any, were affected by aging. Results indicated that age ...

In this study we investigate vowel reduction and the role of some lexical factors in the production of vowels extracted from a corpus of French conversations. Vowel durations and spectral quality are examined with respect to 1. their interaction in the corpus, 2. the position of vowels in words, and 3. word frequency and word category. The analyses are conducted on vowels produced by 16 speaker...

Semantic compositionality, as the principle that makes it possible to compute global meaning of a complex unit from specific meanings its constituents, is usually accepted (at least when Indo-European languages are considered) exclusive sentences. Even in case words, role compositionality very limitedly only. In like Chinese, though, where most simple words monosyllabic – thus, generating high ...