Some Phonetic Features of Elbasanisht

Some Phonetic Structures of Chickasaw

This paper provides a quantitative phonetic study of Chickasaw, a Muskogean language spoken in Oklahoma. Basic properties such as vowel quality, voice onset time, and consonant closure duration are examined and compared with the corresponding properties in other languages of the world. We also examine quantitative properties of the typologically unusual three-way length distinction in Chickasaw...

Distinctive features and phonetic dimensions

Learning phonetic features from waveforms

Unsupervised learning of broad phonetic classes by infants was simulated using a statistical mixture model. With the phonetic labels removed, hand-transcribed segments from the TIMIT database were used in model-based clustering to obtain data-driven classes. Simple Hidden Markov Models were chosen to be the components of the mixture, with Mel-Cepstral coefficients as the front-end. The sound cl...

Dynamic lexicon using phonetic features

In order to better model pronunciation variations, we present in this paper a method to build a lexicon whose content changes dynamically with the input speech. To achieve this goal, we proceeded in two steps. In the first step, a static augmented lexicon is created by adding new phone transcriptions to a basic lexicon. These new variants are derived from phonetic features that are automaticall...

"Phonetic bases of distinctive features": Introduction