Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the Guatemalan highlands. We provide overview of phonetics and phonology Uspanteko, focussing on phenomena which are common languages and/or typologically interesting. These include glottalised consonants (ejectives, implosives, glottal stop), uvular consonants, vowel length contrasts, syllable structure, stress, lexical t...

The article deals with the essence of stress in methodical training system phonetics future teachers-philologists. Based on systemic, analytic-synthetic methods and competence approach concept «methodical phonetics» is defined, specific principles are designed article. study revealed that main components structure goals, content, methods, means, organizational forms educational process aimed to...

Forensic speaker identification is one of the most important tasks dealt with in forensic phonetics. The usage of acoustic evidence increases and at the same time grows the necessity for easy-toapply and reliable methods. The method should be consistent and straight and should enable an expert to make identification decision with clearly determined probability. This paper is to outline the rout...

Beginning phonetics students are taught that American English has two contrasting reduced vowels, transcribed as [ ́] and [È], illustrated by the unstressed vowels in the minimal pair Rosa’s vs. roses. However little seems to be known about the precise nature or distribution of these vowels. This study explores these questions through acoustic analysis of reduced vowels in the speech of twelve A...

Intonational meaning is located in two components of language, the phonetic implementation and the intonational grammar. The phonetic implementation is widely used for the expression of universal meanings that derive from ‘biological codes’, meaning dimensions based on aspects of the production process of pitch variation. Three codes are identified, Ohala’s Frequency Code, the Effort Code and t...

The quality of an epenthetic vowel in a particular language may vary depending on segmental and prosodic factors, such as the quality of the surrounding consonants, the quality of other vowels in the word, and the position of the epenthetic vowel within the word. This last factor has received little attention in the literature. I have identified a number of cases in Italian in which the quality...

K-SEC(Korean-Spoken English Corpus) is a kind of speech database that is under construction by the authors of this paper. This article discusses the needs of the K-SEC from various academic disciplines and industrial circles, and it introduces the characteristics of the K-SEC design, its catalogues and contents of the recorded database, exemplifying what are being considered from both Korean an...

In most English departments at German universities the teaching of practical English phonetics has enjoyed a long and well-established tradition. In more recent times, such courses have not only dealt with the groundwork of English (mostly articulatory) phonetics, but also added relevant aspects of modern phonological theory, sociolinguistics and dialectology. Since the availability of language...

The ‘Norwegian in America’ project, led by Janne Bondi Johannessen, has provided continued inspiration and access to document study American Norwegian. This contributed a growing body of research on morpho¬syntax and, lesser extent, phonetics-phonology. Using compositional definiteness as an illustration, we show the benefits incorporating these two perspectives analyse variation heritage langu...