This paper examines the phonetics and phonology of intonational boundaries in five Romance languages/varieties. A typology of the boundary cues used is given, as well as their relative frequency. The phonology of the tonal boundary gesture is described by means of the inventory of nuclear accents used plus their possible combinations with the two dominant end contours: continuation rise (H) and...

The complementary themes of physical embodiment and environmental embedding, though frequently touted as bases of human cognition, have not been recognized explicitly in models of phonetics. We explore these concepts more fully as they apply to phonetics, seeking a theory based on richer, higher-dimensional models of both the human body and the human environment. In contrast with previous model...

Dental trauma is such a situation wherein the patient is affected both socially and psychologically. During their first dental visit, these patients with trauma are in pain and need emergency treatment. Such patients are quite apprehensive because of impaired functions, esthetics, and phonetics. The prime objective while handling such cases is successful pain management with immediate restorati...

K-SEC(Korean-Spoken English Corpus) is a kind of speech database that is under construction by the authors of this paper. This article discusses the needs of the K-SEC from various academic disciplines and industrial circles, and it introduces the characteristics of the K-SEC design, its catalogues and contents of the recorded database, exemplifying what are being considered from both Korean an...

This book contains a study of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, as well as an overview of the historical development of the Mongolic languages. The description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, defined as the variety of Halh Mongolian spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia, is based on original data collected by the authors from Ulaan...

This study explores the perception of English monophthongs by native speakers of Mandarin (hereafter NSMs). The data were collected at the phonetics laboratory at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (hereafter JUST), China. The results reveal that the overall percentage of correct vowel perception is 81.2%, that the phonetic contexts affect the subjects’ vowel perception, and that the ...

This Special Issue brings together a selection of papers orally presented at the conference Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI), held in Lisbon in 2013. (www.labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/papi2013). For 10 years the PaPI conferences have been a highly productive setting for the sharing and discussion of investigation within phonology and phonetics and their interactions, and have undoubtedly pl...