The issue of the effect of consonant manner on the perceptibility of laryngeal contrast was addressed. Previous studies of perceptual confusion suggest that, in noise, the laryngeal contrast in fricatives is more difficult to perceive than stops for listeners in English, which is typologically classified as an “aspirating” language. The present study examined whether a similar pattern is observ...

Correspondingly to overexposure advertising and oversaturation of sales markets, companies are required explore ways protrude. One way enhance differentiate oneself from competitors is sound branding. Part branding refers the sound-symbolic perception certain linguistical features. This article examines relationship between obstruents a perceived harshness. Based on study done by Pathak et al. ...

Two apparently contradictory observations have been made about consonantal voicing in Southern U.S. English: compared to other varieties, speakers produce more on “voiced” stops, but they also “devoice” word-final /z/ at higher rates. In this article, regional differences final realization within Virginia are investigated. Thirty-six students from Southwest and Northern were recorded completing...

This study compares the VOT measurements between Persian and English stutterers. The speech samples of five adult stutterers (four males and one female) of each language were recorded during a reading task. 98 stuttering events in words beginning with plosives and 34 fluent plosives (i.e., final fluent iterations following the stuttered portions of speech) were identified in the data of both gr...

In this paper the authors propose a completely automatic speake r independent system to recognize a ll six stop consonants in continuous speech. Thi s system makes use of three differe nt distinctive features including formant transitions, silent interval and voice onset time. One hundred and twenty sentences from six English speakers were selected and tested by the system. The results confirm ...

The current study addresses the impact of manner of articulation on the intelligibility of voicing contrast in noise from a cross-linguistic perspective. Previous noise-masking studies have suggested that the impact of manner of articulation on the intelligibility of voicing contrast in noise is apparently different in Russian and English. In order to further assess the source of such a cross-l...

English has assumed a new role in international communication in recent decades, that is, as a Lingua Franca (ELF) among speakers with different first languages. This study attempts to investigate and analyze Chinese university students’ perception and production of paired English fricatives from the perspective of ELF. By using a listening discrimination task and a reading task, respectively, ...

The aim of this paper is to elucidate a comprehensive perspective on translanguaging practices in EFL classrooms Indonesia by reviewing empirical literature published scientific journals and/or proceedings focusing four primary areas, which include: (1) research methodology, (2) advantages and disadvantages translanguaging, (3) languages used when (4) perceptions attitudes toward translanguagin...

This study aims at examining the occurrence and direction of any phonetic interlanguage interference among Yemeni Arabic-English bilinguals by indicating acoustic similarities differences L1 Arabic stops produced comparing it to monolinguals. It investigates Voice Onset Time in initial medial position as well Preceding Vowel Duration position. A total 60 native subjects were involved this study...

Speech can be broadly categorized into voiceless, voiced, and mute signal, in which voiced speech can be further classified into vowel and voiced consonant. With the ever increasing demand of the speech synthesis applications, it is urgent to develop an effective classification method to differentiate vowel and voiced consonant signal since they are two distinct components that affect the natur...