Bulaka River Consonants

Identification of deleted consonants.

VC transitions have often been found to be better cues for the identification of deleted consonants than CV transitions. The lower score for CV transitions could very well be due to an interfering "click sensation" caused by the abrupt begining of these transitions. In the present investigation the abrubt onset was eliminated by replacing the deleted portions of the consonants with noise bursts...

Generalizations over consonants 1 Running head: Generalizations over consonants The quest for generalizations over consonants: Asymmetries between consonants and vowels are not the by-product of acoustic differences

Consonants and vowels may play different roles during language processing, consonants being preferentially involved in lexical processing, and vowels tending to mark syntactic constituency through prosodic cues. In support of this view, artificial language learning studies have demonstrated that consonants (C) support statistical computations, while vowels (V) allow certain structural generaliz...

Adolescents' Recognition of Consonants

This study compared the recognition of Cantonese consonants by three groups of Cantonese-speaking adolescents through visual, auditory, and combined auditoryvisual modalities. They are normal hearing, severely hearing impaired and profoundly deaf adolescents with age ranged from 16 to 18. Performance was assessed across syllable stimuli. All three groups could discriminate between the places of...

Separation of stop consonants

To extract speech from acoustic interference is a challenging problem. Previous systems based on auditory scene analysis principles deal with voiced speech, but cannot separate unvoiced speech. We propose a novel method to separate stop consonants, which contain significant unvoiced signals, based on their acoustic properties. The method employs onset as the major grouping cue; it first detects...

Consonants in Cantonese Loanword Adaptation