considering the importance of of muallaqat in arabic literature, as well as its importance in the various sciences of language and literature, grammatical and contain many of the jahelliah words so many of commentators paid attention to them. one of those topics that attract attention and its worthy of research and investigation are etymology and phonetic issues. in the present study, it is int...

We report an investigation of the production of real and non-words in two normal speaker groups. Group 1 consists of 6 young females (mean age 26 years) and Group 2 consists of 5 older females (mean age 54 years). The speech material used in the study consisted of two repetitions of 10 real, 10 pseudo-real and 10 non-words. The results from both repetitions for measures of response latency, utt...

As the initial step in studying the acquisition of phonological categories from the speech signal, we describe representational issues for the target of learning, a probabilistic distribution of phonological categories over a phonetic parameter space. Our model system of study is cross-linguistic lexical tonal phonemes in tonal languages. We focus on two representational issues: temporal resolu...

This paper examines some methodological and empirical issues concerning phonetic detail and phonetic variability and the work they accomplish in everyday talk-in-interaction. By considering the phonetic and sequential design of a variety of conversational practices I show that phonetic aspects of language should in the first instance be understood as shaped by interactional considerations. I ar...

This study examines the coda voicing effect in English on production of preceding vowel by comparing L1 and L2 speech. Particular attention is paid to how coda voicing contrast is encoded in temporal vs. spectral dimensions, how the effect interacts with information structure (with varying focus types), and how the use of information structure differs in L1 vs. L2. Both English (native) and Kor...

Contemporary psycholinguistic models suggest that there may be two possible routes in phonetic encoding: a 'direct' route which uses stored syllabic units, and an 'indirect' route which relies on the on-line assembly of sub-syllabic units. The computationally more efficient direct route is likely to be used for high frequency words, whereas the indirect route is most likely to be used for novel...

This paper presents the phonetic analysis of the intonational patterns conveying the pragmatic contents of continuation and/or marking syntactic relations in Rome and Perugia Italian: data show the type and the distribution of accents and boundaries occurring in spontaneous task-oriented dialogues. Results imply considerations about issues concerning systemic, phonotactic and realizational aspe...

Automatic dialect identification, like automatic language identification , has often been approached through the use of phonetic frequencies and phonetic sequence modeling. While such statistical systems perform well on language identification problems, they are less adept at the more difficult problem of automatic dialect identification, particularly on short segments of speech. In this paper ...