Twelve Dutch vowels, each pronounced by 50 male speakers, were analyzed in 18 filter bands comparable in bandwidth with the cat's critical band. By considering the sound levels (in decibels) in these filter bands as dimensions, with a principal-component analysis the 18 dimensions per sound were reduced to four factors which together explain 75% of the total variance. The configuration of the a...

Persian is an Indo-European language written using Arabic script, and is an official language of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Transliteration of Persian to English—that is, the character-bycharacter mapping of a Persian word that is not readily available in a bilingual dictionary—is an unstudied problem. In this paper we make three novel contributions. First, we present performance compar...

Native Spanish speakers and Canadian English learners of Spanish produced the five Spanish vowels in utterance final /sV/ syllables. The syllables were presented in random order to Spanish and English listeners for identification of vowels in terms of Spanish vowel categories. The English listeners also identified the vowels in terms of English vowel categories. Initial analysis of perceptual r...

The study presents a kinematic and acoustic comparison of the vowel spaces of New Zealand English (NZE) and Australian English (AE). Five talkers of NZE (3F and 2M) and 5 female talkers of AE each produced between 9 15 tokens of monophthongs in HEAD, HID, HAD, HERD. For each token, measurements of lip aperture, lip protrusion, jaw height, and tongue height and backness were made, in addition to...

careful analysis of the ferdows persian accent showed that the back vowel /a/ changes to front vowel [a] in the first syllable of bi-syllabic words and in the second syllable of tri-syllabic words. however, this does not occur in the last syllable. it was also found that different processes occur before nasals; /a/ changes to [o] before /m/. but before /n/, it changes to [a] in the penult of ...

background: one of the most common complaints expressed by individuals with hearing-impairment is the difficulty in speech perception in background noise. different tests have been developed for the evaluation of reduced ability of speech perception in noise, and the consonant-vowel in noise test is one of the simplest one regard to speech materials. the goal of the present study was developmen...

The present research is a descriptive corpus-based translation study aiming at pinpointing the patterns of translation into Persian when dealing with English Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE). After scrutiny of the strategies applied by Persian translators some regular patterns were drawn, with the exception that the observed translation behavior may be taken as advantageous information for improving ...

Perception of dialect variation is well studied with respect to perceptual similarity of talkers based on dialectal markers. This study examines the perceptual distinctiveness of regional vowel variants in light of cross-generational changes in vowel productions. Listeners from two regional dialects of English identified the dialect of the speaker in monosyllabic words (produced by older adults...