Allophonic variation in spoken and sung speech

Allophonic mode of speech perception in dyslexia.

Perceptual discrimination between speech sounds belonging to different phoneme categories is better than that between sounds falling within the same category. This property, known as "categorical perception," is weaker in children affected by dyslexia. Categorical perception develops from the predispositions of newborns for discriminating all potential phoneme categories in the world's language...

Articulatory differences between spoken and sung vovels in singers

Analysis of intraperiodic formant modulations in spoken and sung vowels

Intraperiodic formant modulations in spoken and sung vowels from four Finnish male opera singers were analyzed by using analytic filtering method and modified covariance type of linear prediction. Both methods revealed clear formant modulations. Differences were seen between spoken and sung samples and between individuals.

Allophonic Variation and the Acquisition of Phoneme Categories

One of the first tasks infants have to accomplish in order to acquire their native language consists of segmenting the continuous signal into discrete categories that represent the vowels and consonants used in their language. Experimental research has shown that this segmentation is acquired during the first year of life. In particular, vowel categories are established at around 6 months (Kuhl...

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...