The acoustic correlates of quantity in Inari Saami
Publication date: January 2019Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 72Author(s): Helen Türk, Pärtel Lippus, Karl Pajusalu, Pire TerasAbstractThis paper studies the phonetic realisation of the ternary length opposition of consonants in Inari Saami disyllabic feet focussing on the distinction between half-long and long geminates. Inari Saami is compared with other Saami and Finnic languages. Segmental durations, fundamental frequency and intensity are analysed. The results show a three-way distinction in consonant duration most robustly after a short stressed syllable vowel. In the case of a long stressed syllable vowel the...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - December 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The creation of a new vowel category by adult learners after adaptive phonetic training
Publication date: January 2019Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 72Author(s): Izabelle Grenon, Mikio Kubota, Chris SheppardAbstractNative Japanese speakers often perceive English vowels based on their duration, whereas native speakers use spectral cues (formant frequencies). The current study examined whether 23 Japanese adult learners of English could create a new vowel category along the spectral dimension after phonetic training with the English vowels /i/-/ɪ/ as in beat and bit. As in previous training studies, the Japanese trainees improved their ability to categorize the vowels in tokens included in the training, ...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - November 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Phonetics - November 23, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The role of early experience and continued language use in bilingual speech production: A study of Galician and Spanish mid vowels by Galician-Spanish bilinguals
Publication date: January 2019Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 72Author(s): Robert Mayr, Laura López-Bueno, Martín Vázquez Fernández, Gisela Tomé LouridoAbstractThis paper examines the vowel productions of three groups of adult Galician-Spanish bilinguals: Spanish-dominant (SD) bilinguals, Galician-dominant (GD) bilinguals, and Dual Switch (DS) bilinguals who had early experience with Galician in the home, predominantly used Spanish upon school entry, but in adolescence/adulthood switched to Galician for ideological reasons.To examine how linguistic experience with Galician and Spanish affected the participants’...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - November 22, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
VOT or quantity: What matters more for the voicing contrast in German regional varieties? Results from apparent-time analyses
Publication date: November 2018Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 71Author(s): Felicitas KleberAbstractStandard German distinguishes voiced (short-lag) and voiceless (long-lag) stops in domain-initial and -medial position with VOT being the most important cue. This phonemic distinction has been neutralized in many dialects but the merger appears to have been reversed in the corresponding regional accents probably due to the increasing influence of the standard language. This apparent-time study investigates the emerging importance of VOT and VCratio (a combined measure of proportional vowel and closure duration) in Bavar...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - November 16, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Corrigendum to “Vowel space area in later childhood and adolescence: Effects of age, sex and ease of communication” [J. Phon. 54 (2016) 1–14]
Publication date: Available online 14 November 2018Source: Journal of PhoneticsAuthor(s): Michèle Pettinato, Outi Tuomainen, Sonia Granlund, Valerie Hazan (Source: Journal of Phonetics)
Source: Journal of Phonetics - November 15, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The role of tongue position in laryngeal contrasts: An ultrasound study of English and Brazilian Portuguese
This study focuses on tongue position as an articulatory correlate of laryngeal contrasts. Results of an ultrasound study show that tongue position differences are similar for English and Portuguese despite VOT differences, although English speakers show more variation. Tongue root advancement/tongue body lowering is found in both English and Portuguese /b d ɡ/ stops, compared to /p t k/ counterparts. In addition to VOT, which reflects the timing of the oral and laryngeal gestures, the tongue position during closure may be an integral part of the articulatory properties of laryngeal contrasts. Results imply that these lan...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - November 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Coordinative patterns underlying cross-linguistic rhythmic differences
Publication date: Available online 12 November 2018Source: Journal of PhoneticsAuthor(s): Leonardo Lancia, Georgy Krasovitsky, Franziska StuntebeckAbstractWe propose a new approach to characterize cross-linguistic differences in the rhythmic structure of speech utterances by studying the degree of coordination between the production of syllables and the production of prosodic prominence at the level of the word. With this approach we compare languages traditionally considered as stress-timed (English and German) and syllable-timed (French and Italian), as well as a language that on the basis of phonological considerations ...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - November 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Plosive voicing acoustics and voice quality in Yerevan Armenian
Publication date: November 2018Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 71Author(s): Scott Seyfarth, Marc GarellekAbstractYerevan Armenian is a variety of Eastern Armenian with a three-way voicing contrast that includes voiced, voiceless unaspirated, and voiceless aspirated stops, but previous work has not converged on a description of how voice quality is involved in the contrast. We demonstrate how voice quality can be assessed in a two-dimensional acoustic space using a spectral tilt measure in conjunction with a measure of spectral noise. Eight speakers produced a list of words with prevocalic word-initial and postvocalic ...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - November 8, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Acquiring and visualizing 3D/4D ultrasound recordings of tongue motion
Publication date: November 2018Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 71Author(s): Steven M. Lulich, Kelly H. Berkson, Kenneth de JongAbstractUltrasound is increasingly common in speech and phonetics research as technology continues to improve. The first digital 3D/4D ultrasound system was utilized for speech research nearly a decade ago, but data access, processing, and visualization were limited to (non-speech) clinical imaging applications. Access to the raw (pulse-echo or scan-converted) image data is a critical step toward making 3D/4D ultrasound an effective tool for speech research. In addition, there is a need for te...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - October 29, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
A multimodal approach to the voicing contrast in Turkish: Evidence from simultaneous measures of acoustics, intraoral pressure and tongue palatal contacts
Publication date: November 2018Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 71Author(s): Özlem Ünal-Logacev, Susanne Fuchs, Leonardo LanciaAbstractThe aims of the study are to investigate acoustic, aerodynamic and supralaryngeal properties of the voicing contrast in Turkish and to better understand the relation between these factors in the maintenance and inhibition of phonetic voicing. For this purpose, simultaneous recordings were carried out using electropalatography, a piezoresistive pressure transducer and a microphone for six speakers of Turkish. The voiced /d, dʒ/ and voiceless /t, tʃ/ target sounds occurred in word-ini...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - October 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
F0 accommodation and turn competition in overlapping talk
Publication date: November 2018Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 71Author(s): Kurtić Emina, Gorisch JanAbstractTo date, little is known about prosodic accommodation and its conversational functions in instances of overlapping talk in conversation. A major conversational action that happens in overlap is turn competition. It is not known whether participants accommodate prosodic parameters locally in the overlapped turn (initialisation) or access a repertoire of prosodic patterns that refer to general prosodic parameter norms (normalisation) when competing for the turn in overlap. This paper investigates the initialisat...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - October 25, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Computing low-dimensional representations of speech from socio-auditory structures for phonetic analyses
Publication date: November 2018Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 71Author(s): Andrew R. Plummer, Patrick F. ReidyAbstractLow-dimensional representations of speech data, such as formant values extracted by linear predictive coding analysis or spectral moments computed from whole spectra viewed as probability distributions, have been instrumental in both phonetic and phonological analyses over the last few decades. In this paper, we present a framework for computing low-dimensional representations of speech data based on two assumptions: that speech data represented in high-dimensional data spaces lie on shapes called man...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - October 25, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Acoustic correlates of the voicing contrast in Lebanese Arabic singleton and geminate stops
This study explores which acoustic correlates best distinguish the voicing contrast in Lebanese Arabic, a language with a two-way voicing contrast that occurs with both singleton and geminate stops. The required timing, phonation and articulatory strength settings for each contrast act synergistically in the voiceless set, but it is unclear how the contrasting requirements for voiced geminates are implemented. Twenty adult speakers were recorded producing target words with medial singleton and geminate stops preceded by long and short vowels. Several temporal and non-temporal measures (duration, VOT, percent voicing, f0, F...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - October 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Onset pitch perturbations and the cross-linguistic implementation of voicing: Evidence from tonal and non-tonal languages
Publication date: November 2018Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 71Author(s): James P. KirbyAbstractThis paper investigates the relationship between Voice Onset Time (VOT) and onset f0 perturbations in three languages with a three-way laryngeal contrast between prevoiced, short-lag, and long-lag stops. To assess the relative contributions of aspiration and tonality to the realization of onset f0, a non-tonal language (Khmer) is compared to two tonal languages (Central Thai and Northern Vietnamese) using a common set of methods and materials. While the VOT distributions of the three languages are extremely similar, they ...
Source: Journal of Phonetics - October 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
