The present study investigated the existence of a Japanese mental syllabary and units stored therein for speech production. Experiment 1 compared naming latencies between high and low initial mora frequencies using CVCVCV nonwords, indicating that nonwords with a high initial mora frequency were named faster than those with a low frequency initial mora. Experiments 2 and 3 clarified the possibi...

We present the architecture and programming model for MORA, a coarse-grained reconfigurable processor aimed at multimedia applications. The MORA architecure is a MIMD machine consisting of a 2-D array of reconfigurable cells (RC) with a flexible reconfigurable interconnect network. MORA is designed to support high-throughput data-parallel pipelined processing. We describe the design and impleme...

We developed a CALL (computer-aided language learning) system for teaching the pronunciation of Japanese long vowels, the mora nasal and mora obstruents to nonnative speakers of Japanese. Long vowels and short vowels are spectrally almost identical but their phone durations differ significantly. Similar conditions exist between mora nasals and non-mora nasals, and between mora and non-mora obst...

Jonathan Desponds, Andreas Mayer, Thierry Mora, and Aleksandra M. Walczak University of California San Diego, Department of Physics, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA Laboratoire de physique théorique, CNRS, UPMC and École normale supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France Laboratoire de physique statistique, CNRS, UPMC and École normale supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France (Dated: Marc...

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We investigated the role of foot structure on mora duration in Japanese. Our initial hypothesis was that moras in foot-final position are longer than moras in the same foot. Ten speakers of Tokyo Japanese read a set of surnames of the form CVCVCVCV, in which the second and fourth CVs were seen to correspond to foot-final moras. The analysis showed no support for foot-final mora lengthening. How...

In this paper an account is given for the occurrence of a complete oral closure during the production of the mora nasal in intervocalic position in Osaka Japanese. This kind of realisation is dependent on the vocalic context and is favoured where the vowel following the mora nasal is an open one. Nous nous proposans de donner ici une explication concemant la realisation d'une fermeture orale co...

We have been developing a reliable method of prosodic word boundary detection for Japanese continuous speech based on the statistical modeling of mora transitions of fundamental frequency contours of prosodic words. Modifications in the codebook sizes and in the HMM topologies improved the boundary detection performance. When using mora boundary information obtainable from the phoneme recogniti...

MORA is a novel platform for high-level FPGA programming of streaming vector and matrix operations, aimed at multimedia applications. It consists of soft array of pipelined low-complexity SIMD processors-in-memory (PIM). We present a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for high-level programming of the MORA soft processor array. The DSL is embedded in C++, providing designers with a familiar languag...

Theories of language production generally describe the segment as the basic unit in phonological encoding (e.g., Dell, 1988; Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999). However, there is also evidence that such a unit might be language specific. Chen, Chen, and Dell (2002), for instance, found no effect of single segments when using a preparation paradigm. To shed more light on the functional unit of phon...