Phonetic Aspects of Anarthria

Phonetic Aspects of "Speech-Laughs"

L'étude examine des "speech-laughs" (rire dans la parole) dans un corpus de dialogues spontanés pour la langue allemande. La majorité des rires étiquetés recouvre la parole au lieu de l'interrompre comme attendu. La qualité phonétique typique pour les "speech-laughs" est une aspiration supplémentaire (différente pour les sons voisés et non voisés), parfois accompagnée par un vibrato dans la pho...

Phonetic and Linguistic Aspects of Vowel Reduction

Suppose you are having dinner and you want the salt. There are various ways of asking your dish companions for the salt, but the shortest one is calling for "Salt!". Apparently, such a request, that will normally be expressed in several words, can also be said in one single word (if we disregard the aspect of decency). Other examples of condensed messages are telegrams, the speech of young chil...

Phonological and phonetic aspects of whistled languages*

This article examines phonological and phonetic aspects of whistled languages. A whistled language is a system of whistled communication which allows fluent subjects to transmit and exchange a potentially unlimited set of messages over long distances. In this respect, they are quite different from communication systems limited to a repertoire of stereotyped messages. For example, the whistled f...

Phonetic and Prosodic Aspects in the Cross-lingual Pronunciation Tutoring

Computer-assisted pronunciation tutoring (CAPT) methods have been well-established in research and education. Common system approaches include the phonetic quality assessment, highlight problematic sections in the speech signal and usually rely on automatic speech recognition (ASR) regarding the target language L2. The contribution deals with the audiovisual CAPT system AzAR. An extensive feedb...

Intonational variation and social meaning: Categorical and phonetic aspects