Word reduction by weak syllable omission is a fairly common phenomenon in several populations, including normally developing children, children with Specific Language Impairment, and adults with aphasia. A recent study (Carter & Clopper, submitted) has shown that normal adults reduce words using strategies similar to those used by the above-mentioned populations and that these strategies vary t...

This paper proposes an approach for modeling prosody patterns of acoustic features of Chinese expressive speech. In a Chinese multi-syllabic prosodic word, a syllable is identified as the core syllable based on the observation that speaker usually puts more emphasis on such syllable. The variations of the acoustic features migrating from neutral to expressive speech are then analyzed for both t...

Segment duration varies with syllable structure (Lehiste, 1970), resulting in word-level duration patterns. These patterns provide important phonetic cues to syllable and word boundaries in English (Christie, 1977; Boucher, 1988; Tuller & Kelso, 1991), and possibly in other languages (Maddieson, 1985). For instance, English-speaking listeners syllabify the same sequence differently depending on...

This paper presents an account of the use of syllable structure as the basis for a novel approach to speech recognition. This contrasts with the serial organization of more conventional phonetic segments, and their use in speech recognition systems. It is demonstrated that working with syllables provides the basis for linguistically motivated speech recognition using the previously reported not...

Spoken languages have rhythmic structures, often phonologically described in terms of the metrical phrasal stress patterns of that language [1, 2, 3, 4]. Recent studies with English, Japanese, and Spanish suggest that rhythmic phrasal stress patterns are articulated by syllable to syllable jaw displacement variations, with concomitant syllable to syllable changes in vocal tract resonance freque...