All Italian consonants affected by gemination, that is affricates, fricatives, liquids, nasals, and stops, were analyzed within a project named GEMMA lasted over span of about 25 years. Results the analysis on as published in (Esposito, A., Di Benedetto, M. G. (1999). “Acoustic Perceptual Study Gemination Stops,” The Journal Acoustical Society America, ASA, Vol. 30, pp. 175-185) showed main aco...

This study examined the ability of six-month-old infants to recognize the perceptual similarity of syllables sharing a phonetic segment when variations were introduced in phonetic environment and talker. Infants in a "phonetic" group were visually reinforced for head turns when a change occurred from a background category of labial nasals to a comparison category of alveolar nasals . The infant...

In an English phrase like "an ice cream", does the /n/ remain the coda of the first syllable, or is it resyllabified into the second syllable so that the phrase is no different from "a nice cream"? Or is it ambisyllabic: belonging simultaneously to both syllables? This is an issue that still remains a mystery today. In this study, we revisit this issue with the help of a recently developed tech...

In Karitiana, word-medial nasals occurring between oral vowels may surface as circum-oralized, post-oralized, or completely oralized consonants. For example, the word for ‘thing’ may surface as [ki.'dnda], [ki~.'nda], or [ki.'da]. Interestingly, this surface variation of Karitiana nasals is due to the temporal indeterminacy of nasal gestures in the language, i.e. the duration of velic aperture ...

This paper presents the preliminary work done towards the development of a Gender Recognition System that can be incorporated into the Hindi Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) System. Gender Recognition (GR) can help in the development of speaker-independent speech recognition systems. This paper presents a general approach to identifying feature vectors that effectively distinguish gender of a...

The effectiveness of glottal source analysis is known to be dependent on the phonetic properties of its concomitant supraglottal features. Phonetic classes like nasals and fricatives are particularly problematic. Their acoustic characteristics, including zeros in the vocal tract spectrum and aperiodic noise, can have a negative effect on glottal inverse filtering, a necessary pre-requisite to g...

Using very large speech corpora, we can study rare but systematic pronunciation patterns in spontaneous speech. Previous studies have established that word-final alveolar consonants in English (/t/, /d/, /n/, /s/ and /z/) vary their place of articulation to match a following word-initial consonant, e.g. "ran quickly" "ra[ŋ] quickly". Assimilation of bilabial or velar nasals, e.g. "alar[ŋ] clock...

INTRODUCTION Articulation is the result of speech organs and it means clean, clear and distinct pronunciation of voices in words. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective study included 24 children between 5 and 15 years of age, of both sexes. All children were monolingual, Serbian being their native language. The quality of articulation was tested with Triage articulation test. RESULTS Neither o...