Quantity, resolution, and syllable geomentry

Quantity and the Three-Syllable Window in Dutch Word Stress

This paper considers the state-of-the-art in the (generative) study of Dutch word stress. In the past 25 years, consensus has been reached on a number of properties of the Dutch stress system, such that it obeys the so-called three-syllable window and that it is quantity sensitive. However, not all of these arguments are equally convincing in the light of modern developments in phonological the...

Vowel duration, syllable quantity and stress in Dutch

Quantity and Quantity Value

The concept system around ‘quantity’ and ‘quantity value’ is fundamental for measurement science, but some very basic issues are still open on such concepts and their relations. This paper proposes a duality between quantities and quantity values, a proposal that simplifies their characterization and makes it consistent.

Syllable Recognition Using Syllab Syllable-based

In our previous research, we demonstrated the validity of segmental unit input hidden Markov model (HMM), which regards successive four frame MEL-cepstrum coefficients as a feature vector. The vector is reduced to lower dimensions using the KL transform. However, the model considers only the correlation between frames in a short section, but not the correlation between the frames over a long se...

Segment and syllable reduction:

Spectrographic data are presented to exemplify effects of segmental reduction on utterance length, measured in terms of number of phonetic syllables per utterance. The speculation is put forward that segmental reorganization in ‘fast speech’ is partly constrained to preserve speaking rate, specified as number of phonetic syllables per unit time.