Born with an innate neural architecture built specially for language learning, young children have the ability to distinguish sounds in a variety of languages. As they are exposed to native language environment, perceptual reorganization occurs, and native language system gradually establishes. Phonology knowledge, which is language-specific, emerges during this process. In this study, based on...

Inputting written Chinese, unlike written English, is a non-trivial operation using a standard keyboard. To accommodate this operation, numerous existing phonetic systems using the Roman alphabet were adopted as a means of input while still making use of a Western keyboard. With the growing prevalence of computing devices capable of pen-based input, naturally sketching written Chinese using a p...

A general statistical model for the prediction of pronunciation given the orthographic transcript or the canonical pronunciation of a spoken utterance is described. The model is based on a Markov process that can be derived from a set of statistically weighted re-write rules. The automatic learning of such re-write rules based on annotated speech data is illustrated. One possible application of...

One of the hallmarks of any flexible system of perception and motor control is the ability to adjust to changes induced by dialect, development, fatigue, disease, or aging. Phonetic categories are an essential component of language that enables listeners and speakers to communicate effectively. Four studies are reviewed that illustrate how adults and infants adjust their phonetic categories rap...

Phonemic analysis, the process of identifying the contrastive sounds in a language, involves finding allophones; phonetic variants of those contrastive sounds. An algorithm for finding allophones (developed by Peperkamp et al.) is evaluated on consonants in the TIMIT acoustic phonetic transcripts. A novel phonetic filter based on the active articulator is introduced and has a higher recall than...

In this paper, we apply context dependent phonetic modeling on the task of large vocabulary (with 20 thousand words) Taiwanese multi-syllabic word recognition. Considering the phonetic characteristics of Taiwanese, the right context dependent (RCD) phones instead of the general tri-phones are used. The RCDs are further clustered at the sub-phone or state level using a decision tree with a set o...

In this work we assess the recently proposed hybrid Deep Neural Network/Gaussian Mixture Model (DNN/GMM) approach for speaker recognition considering the effects of the granularity of the phonetic DNN model, and of the precision of the corresponding GMM models, which will be referred to as the phonetic GMMs. The aim of this work is to better understand the contributions of the phonetic informat...

_Personal name matching system is the core of essential task in national citizen database, text and web mining, information retrieval, online library system, e-commerce and record linkage system. It has necessitated to the all embracing research in the vicinity of name matching. Traditional name matching methods are suitable for English and other Latin based language. Asian languages which have...

The vowel system of Modern Icelandic, unlike that of Old Icelandic, continues to spawn different interpretations. Scholars do not appear to be nearer any consensus of views than they were in 1960, when the distinguished Russian linguist, Steblin-Kamenskij, commenting on the situation, noted with some playfulness: ... are we to infer that it is the more difficult to reconstruct a phonemic system...

phonological patterns and detailed phonetic patterns can combine to produce unusual acoustic results, but criteria for what aspects of a pattern are phonetic and what aspects are phonological are often disputed. Early literature on Romanian makes mention of nasal devoicing in word-final clusters (e.g. in /basm/ ‘fairy-tale’). Using acoustic, aerodynamic and ultrasound data, the current work inv...