Although Canada has two official languages, French and English, it is well-known that these languages are not used equally across the country. Quebec is French-dominant, with nearly 8 out of 10 people reporting French as their native language compared to 8.3% who are native Anglophones (Statistics Canada, 2012b). In Alberta, English is the mother tongue of 77.0% of residents, with native Franco...

The purpose of our study is to show that phonological knowledge is an important basis for making predictions during speech perception. Taking the phonological constraint in English that coda obstruent clusters agree in their value for voicing, we conducted two experiments using vowel–stop–fricative sequences, where the task was to identify the fricative. Stimuli included sequences that were eit...

Speech syntesizer is a system that aim at carrying the text to an acoustic surroundings understandably and naturally. Similarly voiced expression recogniser is a system that aim at transforming the voice in acoustic surroundings to tha text by computer. The researchs about voiced expression recogniser have materialized highly in English Gramer. İn last years, it makes essential using new materi...

This paper investigates the performance of a silent speech interface (SSI) based on permanent-magnetic articulography (PMA) across several speakers. In a previously published study, the SSI was shown to be capable of distinguishing between voiced and unvoiced plosives ([b,p] and [d,t]) in data recorded from a single speaker; a surprising result in a system without access to speech acoustics. Th...

Data collected from Japanese and English showed that both phonetically fully voiced and (partially) devoiced allophones of /d/ have very similar perturbatory effect on the F0 of the following vowel. It is considered, therefore, that the phonetic voicing of /d/ (periodicity during the closure) i s not clearly correlated with lower levels of F0 on the following vowel. Although the F0 perturbation...

An experiment to explore the method realizing a concatenative Chinese TTS accommodating isolated English words is presented. The experiment was based on an existing concatenative Mandarin TTS system, developed in Motorola China Research Center. The experimental system employs an English word synthesizer based on the concatenation of speech segments stored in an English corpus. The original Engl...

The present study seeks to provide acoustic evidence of articulatory adjustments to initiate and sustain voicing during stops. First, using aerodynamic and acoustic data, it examines variations in the amplitude of voicing in phraseinitial voiced stops in Spanish and English and relates these variations to articulatory adjustments to preserve a low oral pressure and voicing. Second, a correlatio...

This paper explores the acoustic characteristics of English and Thai fricatives, uttered by native-Thai speakers. In the phonological systems, English has four pairs of voiceless-voiced fricatives, which appear initially, intervocalically, and finally. Thai, on the other hand, has only two initial voiceless fricatives. The results of this acoustic study revealed that the major acoustic cues of ...

this contrastive study, in the first place, examined the generic structure and, in the second place, explored the face theory proposed by arundale (2006) in 140 doctoral dissertation acknowledgments written by native speakers of persian (nsp) and native speakers of english (nse) in 7 disciplines representing soft sciences to find out what discourse genre components writers employ to articulate ...

Building on the contemporary functional phonology, the present paper posits physical groundings in coda maximization. The four sorts of conditioning consonants that commonly undergo the syllabification stem from the articulations that preferentially affiliate to stressed syllable codas: contact of the tongue for the American English tap, no incompatibility for the British English glottal stop, ...