Research on aphasia has struggled to identify apraxia of speech (AoS) as an independent deficit affecting a processing level separate from phonological assembly and motor implementation. This is because AoS is characterized by both phonological and phonetic errors and, therefore, can be interpreted as a combination of deficits at the phonological and the motoric level rather than as an independ...

Two-level morphology is a system which relates lexical representations of morpheme sequences directly to their surface/phonetic forms, without intermediate derivational stages as in most other generative approaches. It thus draws its name from the restriction of phonology to two levels of representation, and perhaps should more properly be known as two-level phonology. The morphological compone...

This study investigates the effect of language attrition and tone sandhi on speech processing of Taiwanese tones. The mid level tone was previously found to be the most confusing category, and is largely confused with low-falling tone. This study argues that the tonal errors are caused by the effect of language attrition and tone sandhi. Three perception and one production tasks were conducted ...

This paper analyses the chanting of 21 fivesyllable modern-style poems, which is Chinese traditional style of poem reciting which has long history and special melody. The phonetic analysis of chanting and its relationship with poetic metrics has not yet been fully studied. This paper is to find out the prosodic hierarchy according to pause duration, and probe the phonetic features and methods o...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the dominant technique for acoustic-phonetic modeling due to their markedly improved performance over other models. Despite this, little is understood about the computation they implement in creating phonemic categories from highly variable acoustic signals. In this paper, we analyzed a DNN trained for phoneme recognition and characterized its representat...

In general purpose concatenated waveform synthesis an exhaustive stored waveforms inventory is needed. Our SPRUCE system is syllable and word based, but for general purpose work its inventory needs examples of all possible syllables. The high-level synthesis engine used to generate the phonology and prosody of utterances is already general purpose – but its use is constrained by small low-level...