The decision to include or exclude phonemes in the description of a language is not always straightforward; presentations phoneme inventory Modern Standard German (MSG) often discussion why /ɛ:/ problematic as phoneme. This study describes acoustic realization comparison /e:/ spoken German, specifically South Westphalian. 39 native speakers produced and hVt non-word frames vowel productions wer...

30 second-snippets from 37 songs have been automatically extracted. All phonemes from this pieces have been manually labeled. The considered genre was popular music. 21 songs have been performed by male singers. 16 songs have been performed by female singers. Altogether 2244 phonemes have been manually labeled and can be used by the system. Only 15 voiced phonemes have been distinguished, becau...

A novel method for classifying speech phonemes is presented. Unlike traditional cepstral based methods, this approach uses histograms of reconstructed phase spaces. A Naïve Bayes classifier uses the probability mass estimates for classification. The approach is verified using isolated fricative, vowel, and nasal phonemes from the TIMIT corpus. The results show that a reconstructed phase space a...

The use of multivariate measurements to characterize brain activity (electrical, magnetic, optical) is widespread. The most common approaches to reduce the complexity of such observations include principal and independent component analyses (PCA and ICA), which are not well suited for discrimination tasks. We addressed two questions: first, how do the neurophysiological responses to elongated p...

A common approach to extract phonemes of sign language is to use an unsupervised clustering algorithm to group the sign segments. However, simple clustering algorithms based on distance measures usually do not work well on temporal data and require complex algorithms. In this paper, we present a simple and effective approach to extract phonemes from American sign language sentences. We first ap...

In five experiments, we examined lexical competition effects using the phonological priming paradigm in a shadowing task. Experiments 1A and 1B replicate and extend Slowiaczek and Hamburger's (1992) observation that inhibitory effects occur when the prime and the target share the first three phonemes (e.g., /bRiz/-/bRik/) but not when they share the first two phonemes (e.g., /bRepsilonz/-/bRik/...

In this paper a method of classifying phonemes by combining a dynamical systems approach with subband decomposition of speech signals is presented. The ability of reconstructed phase spaces to effectively model sub-bands of phonemes in different phonological classes is demonstrated. Experiments performed over the TIMIT database show how well phonemes from different phonological classes can be r...