This paper compares spontaneous phonetic accommodation in high and low variability talker conditions. If multi-talker processing is a kind of increased cognitive load, we predict an increase in imitation in the low variability contexts. Our results suggest that, indeed, phonetic accommodation is greater in low variability contexts, but that this higher level of accommodation is moderated as per...

Studies of proficient second-language (L2) learners have often noted phonetic drift of their native language (L1) vis-à-vis monolingual norms. Such drift has been attributed to perceptual linkage between similar sounds in L1 and L2. This study provides evidence that L1 phonetic drift is limited neither to advanced L2 learners, nor to crosslanguage influence at a segmental level. During the firs...

One of the hallmarks of any flexible system of perception and motor control is the ability to adjust to changes induced by dialect, development, fatigue, disease, or aging. Phonetic categories are an essential component of language that enables listeners and speakers to communicate effectively. Four studies are reviewed that illustrate how adults and infants adjust their phonetic categories rap...

In this paper, we apply context dependent phonetic modeling on the task of large vocabulary (with 20 thousand words) Taiwanese multi-syllabic word recognition. Considering the phonetic characteristics of Taiwanese, the right context dependent (RCD) phones instead of the general tri-phones are used. The RCDs are further clustered at the sub-phone or state level using a decision tree with a set o...

The demand and the importance of Chinese teaching have increased continuously. In order to assist the Chinese learners in composing Chinese characters and increase their learning efficiency, Chinese components teaching method is adopted. The learners can find the clues to both the pronunciations and the meanings of Chinese characters from Chinese components, and semantic-phonetic compounds and ...

The usual approach to automatic continuous speech recognition is what can be called the acoustic-phonetic modelling approach. In this approach, voice is considered to hold two different kinds of information—acoustic and phonetic—. Acoustic information is represented by some kind of feature extraction out of the voice signal, and phonetic information is extracted from the vocabulary of the task ...

This paper presents two parameter tying techniques which enable a trade-off between computational cost and recognition performances of a speaker independent flexible speech recognition system working over the telephone network. Parameter tying is conducted at phonetic and acoustic levels. At the phonetic level, allophone and triphone based phonetic modeling are used simultaneously to achieve th...

The term ‘transcription’ may be used to refer to the representation of a text or an utterance as a string of symbols, without any linkage to the acoustic representation of the utterance. This was the pattern followed by speech and text corpus work during the 1980’s, such as the prosodically-transcribed Spoken English Corpus (Knowles et al. 1995). These corpora did not link the symbolic represen...

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...

A long-standing forte of the Laboratory Phonology series has been work on phonetic implementation of phonological representations. Numerous studies in this series have elucidated the patterns of variation in the realization of phonological categories in different segmental and prosodic contexts, and such studies now provide one of the main lines of evidence about the cognitive representation of...