Variability in individual constriction contributions to third formant values in American English /ɹ/

Cross-dialectal variation in formant dynamics of American English vowels.

This study aims to characterize the nature of the dynamic spectral change in vowels in three distinct regional varieties of American English spoken in the Western North Carolina, in Central Ohio, and in Southern Wisconsin. The vowels /I, epsilon, e, ae, aI/ were produced by 48 women for a total of 1920 utterances and were contained in words of the structure /bVts/ and /bVdz/ in sentences which ...

Detecting errors in American English /ɹ/ along a normalized acoustic threshold

Perception of speech sounds has been characterized as largely categorical, such that listeners experience a shift in perception from one sound to a different sound at a certain point on a continuum. Children with speech errors, however, have been found to have atypical category boundaries. Following an observation by Hagiwara [6], who noted that typical speakers show third formant (F3) values f...

risk taking in english to persian translation process by novice iranian translators

این پژوهش به بررسی ریسک پذیری مترجمان تازه کار در طی فرآیند ترجمه از زبان انگلیسی به فارسی می پردازد. پژوهش درباره مترجمان به عنوان اولین خواننده متن مبدا از اهمیت به سزایی برخوردار است. مترجمان تازه کار (و حرفه ای) در طی فرآیند ترجمه با مشکلات متعددی روبرو می شوند که باعث عدم اطمینان آنها از متن ترجمه شده می شود. با توجه به اینکه عدم اطمینان به انجام ریسک منتهی می شود، هدف این پژوهش بررسی کیفی...

Vowel Fundamental and Formant Frequency Contributions to English and Mandarin Sentence Intelligibility

The current study investigated spectral components of vowels that contribute to Mandarin and English sentence intelligibility. Sentences were processed to preserve various amounts of vowel information. Processing parameters ensured similar proportions of speech preserved between the two languages. In the first experiment, speech segments, primarily containing vocalic cues, were processed to fla...

Variability in the implementation of voicing in American English obstruents