this study examines the phonetic properties of lexical stress in english produced by persian speakers learning english as a foreign language. the four most reliable phonetic correlates of english lexical stress, namely fundamental frequency, duration, intensity, and vowel quality were measured across persian speakers’ production of the stressed and unstressed syllables of five english disyllabi...

An extensive developmental acoustic study of the speech patterns of children and adults was reported by Lee and colleagues [Lee et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 1455-1468 (1999)]. This paper presents a reexamination of selected fundamental frequency and formant frequency data presented in their report for ten monophthongs by investigating sex-specific and developmental patterns using two differ...

This study reports on an investigation into the coarticulation patterns of a set of young adult male monozygotic (identical) twins, based on a speech corpus of monosyllabic words. The monosyllabic words were of the structure CVC, and were chosen to represent a variety of consonantal and vowel contexts. Coarticulation patterns were investigated by deriving F2 locus equations [e.g., 9, 10, 11] an...

A method is proposed to model the interspeaker variability of formant patterns for oral vowels. It is assumed that this variability originates in the differences existing among speakers in the respective lengths of their front and back vocal-tract cavities. In order to characterize, from the spectral description of the acoustic speech signal, these vocal-tract differences between speakers, each...

background and aim: age implantation is one of the effective factors on speech production outcomes in cochlear implanted (ci) children. the purpose of this study is to determine the role of age implantation on formant frequencies and production of three persian vowels including /a/, /u/, /i/ in ci children. methods: sixty nine congenitally deaf children who received ci were divided into three g...

Amplitude modulation (AM) and frequency modulation (FM) in speech signals are believed to reflect various non-linear phenomena during the speech production process. In this paper, the amplitude and frequency modulation patterns are analyzed for the first three speech resonances in relation to the fundamental frequency (F0). The formant tracks are estimated, and the resonant signals are extracte...

In this paper we propose to apply formant pattern recognition to Mandarin vowel pronunciation assessment. We devise a novel pitch cycle detection method and suggest estimating formant frequencies from observations of the frequency domain by using pitch-synchronous analysis. Statistically based classifiers are trained to discriminate formant patterns for vowel pronunciation assessment. Five conf...

This study examines the phonetic properties of lexical stress in English produced by Persian speakers learning English as a foreign language. The four most reliable phonetic correlates of English lexical stress, namely fundamental frequency, duration, intensity, and vowel quality were measured across Persian speakers’ production of the stressed and unstressed syllables of five English disyllabi...