Phonetic richness can outweigh prosodically-driven phonological knowledge when learning words in an artificial language

Phonetic richness can outweigh prosodically-driven phonological knowledge when learning words in an artificial language

How do Dutch and Korean listeners use acoustic–phonetic information when learning words in an artificial language? Dutch has a voiceless ‘unaspirated’ stop, produced with shortened Voice Onset Time (VOT) in prosodic strengthening environments (e.g., in domain-initial position and under prominence), enhancing the feature { spread glottis}; Korean has a voiceless ‘aspirated’ stop produced with le...

Towards an Inquiry-Based Language Learning: Can a Wiki Help?

Wiki use may help EFL instructors to create an effective learning environment for inquiry-based language teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of wikis on the EFL learners’ IBL process. Forty-nine EFL students participated in the study while they conducted research projects in English. The Non-wiki group (n = 25) received traditional inquiry instr...

Phonetic knowledge, phonotactics an automatic language id

This study explores a multilingual phonotactic approach to automatic language identification using Broadcast News data. The definition of a multilingual phoneset is discussed and an upper limit on the performance of the phonotactic approach is estimated by eliminating any degradation due to recognition errors. This upper bound is compared to automatic language identification based on a phonotac...

Phonological Principles for Automatic Phonetic Transcription of Khmer Orthographic Words

Compensation for coarticulation in prosodically weak words

The goal of this study was to compare production differences in consonant-on-vowel coarticulation in accented and unaccented words with the extent to which listeners compensate differently for these coarticulatory effects. Native speakers of German produced nonsense words such as /pʊp/, /pʏp/, /tʊt/, and /tʏt/ that were either accented or unaccented. In a perception experiment, the same speaker...