The issue on language and communication disorder of individuals with Down Syndrome becomes the focus this study. It explores as a phenomenon represented in movie. Where Hope Grows movie describes character struggling communicating people his workspace independent livelihood. result study shows that utterances have dissimilarities common particularly phonological terms such consonant clusters pr...

English nonsense consonant-vowel-consonant syllables were presented at four different signal-to-noise ratios for recognition. Information theory methods are used to analyze the response data according to segment type and phonological feature, and are consistent with previous studies showing that the consonantal contrast of voicing is more robust than place of articulation, word-initial consonan...

Auditory cortex (AC) lesions impair complex sound discrimination. However, a recent study demonstrated spared performance on an acoustic startle response test of speech discrimination following AC lesions (Floody et al., 2010). The current study reports the effects of AC lesions on two operant speech discrimination tasks. AC lesions caused a modest and quickly recovered impairment in the abilit...

The present study concerns the durational properties of minimal Dutch word pairs containing long and short vowels as a specific case study of the mapping between phonological and phonetic notions of timing. In Experiment 1, duration of the postvocalic stop consonant in CV( : ) Cən words did not vary as a function of preceding vowel length. Experiment 2 extended this finding to intervocalic stop...

The author examines the different types of postalveolar assimilation in the different imperative forms of Hungarian verbs ending in -t (eg. szeret -> szeress, tanít -> taníts, pronounced [tanícss]). Generative phonology has presented several proposed solutions for these phenomena in the last decade. It has become understood that a long vowel before a final -t becomes a short vowel when the cons...

Regressive place assimilation is a form of pronunciation variation in which a word-final alveolar sound takes the place of articulation of a following labial or velar sound, as when green boat is pronounced greem boat. How listeners recover the intended word (e.g., green, given greem) has been a major focus of spoken word recognition theories. However, the extent to which this variation occurs ...

This paper suggests that what McCarthy and Prince (1990), following Levy (1971), call consonant-vowel METATHESIS in three Standard Arabic broken-plural templates is more likely a two-step diachronic process of PSEUDOMETATHESIS in the sense of Blevins and Garrett (1998). This process is characterized by vowel deletion followed by vowel insertion. Evidence from present-day dialects, mainly Lebane...

We investigated how university students select between alternative spellings of phonemes in written production by asking them to spell nonwords whose final consonants have extended spellings (e.g., ‹ff› for /f/) and simpler spellings (e.g., ‹f› for /f/). Participants' choices of spellings for the final consonant were influenced by whether they used one letter or more than one letter to spell th...

This thesis focuses on the detection of abrupt acoustic discontinuities in the speech signal, which constitute landmarks for consonant sounds. Because a large amount of phonetic information is concentrated near acoustic discontinuities, more focused speech analysis and recognition can be performed based on the landmarks. Three types of consonant landmarks are defined according to its characteri...