â â â  avicenna and the arabic phonetics â â â â â  * mahmood shakib ansari â  * * alireza yusofi â â â  abstract â  avicenna, the iranian philosopher and sage, mostly famous for his scientific works such as law and the shifa has done some studies in arabic phonetics as well. besides pointing to some physical aspects of sounds in the above mentioned books, he has also written a monograph in ara...

Researchers as well as speech therapists are interested in the determination of reliable acoustic cues that may be useful for the evaluation of vocal quality as well as for the diagnosis of vocal pathologies and remediation. In this way, experimental phonetics can be useful to clinical practice. This work which tries to connect phonetics and logopedic science, deals with the esthetic quality of...

The objective of this project is to develop a robust and high-performance speech recognitiotl system using a segment-based approach to phonetic recognition. The recognition system will eventually be integrated with natural language processing to achieve spoken lallguagc understanding. Developed a phonetic recognition front-end and achieved 77% and 71% classiilcatiou accuracy under speaker-depen...

VILE (An acoustic study of interand intra-speaker variation in Spanish) is a basic research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (BFF2001-2551, 2001-2004). The objective of the Project is the acoustic study of phonetic variability in Spanish. Results will be applied to automatic speaker recognition and forensic phonetics.

The Emu Speech Database system is a set of software tools developed to support research in acoustic phonetics and other corpus based speech research. This paper describes recent updates that have been made to the latest release of the software.

phonological patterns and detailed phonetic patterns can combine to produce unusual acoustic results, but criteria for what aspects of a pattern are phonetic and what aspects are phonological are often disputed. Early literature on Romanian makes mention of nasal devoicing in word-final clusters (e.g. in /basm/ ‘fairy-tale’). Using acoustic, aerodynamic and ultrasound data, the current work inv...

Japanese speakers often face difficulty in producing complex syllable onsets in English and insert an extra vowel. We examined whether the vowel inserted by Japanese speakers was epenthetic (phonological) or excrescent (phonetic). The acoustic data suggested that an L1 phonological process was involved in vowel insertion by Japanese speakers with lower-level English competency, because the inse...

Abstract We argue that the representational primes of human phonological faculty, so-called distinctive features, are innate and substance-free. Our arguments for innateness features built on traditional novel logical arguments, experimental evidence accumulating over recent decades, somewhat detailed proposals about their neurobiological reality. As symbols in brain, substance-free, is, they d...