Phonetic variation in Italian consonant gemination

Consonant Gemination in Japanese Loanword Phonology

The distribution of geminate obstruents in Japanese loanwords appears very complex. Some consonants are more prone to gemination than others, on the one hand, and one and the same consonant is more likely to geminate in some phonological contexts than in others, on the other hand. This paper tackles these problems by considering the relationship between consonant gemination in native words and ...

Aspects of vowel-consonant coordination in Italian

Consonant variation within words

The aim of this paper is to show that the consonants that a simple (monomorphemic) word is constructed with usually are different from each other. To illustrate this, consider words like glass, drink, butter, or tray in which no consonant occurs more than once (it is the pronunciation I am concerned with, not the spelling). Changing one consonant so that it becomes identical to another one woul...

Gemination of Consonant in Spontaneous Speech: An Analysis of the "Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese"

In Japanese, there is frequent alternation between CV morae and moraic geminate consonants. In this study, we analyzed the phonemic environments of consonant gemination (CG) using the “Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ).” The results revealed that the environment in which gemination occurs is, to some extent, parallel to that of vowel devoicing. However, there are two crucial differences. One...

Do phonetic features help to improve consonant identification in ASR?

The hidden Markov modelling experiments presented in this paper show that consonant identification results can be improved substantially if a neural network is used to extract linguistically relevant information from the acoustic signal before applying hidden Markov modelling. The neural network – or in this case a combination of two Kohonen networks – takes 12 mel-frequency cepstral coefficien...