Vowel epenthesis processes vary in their characteristics, and many aspects of typology are still under continuous study even English, wherein a lot academic work has been done, much less so Yoruba other African languages where large part research on the phenomenon is evolving. The focus this identification form pattern as well diversity vowel loanwords language. also attempts to identify functi...

 The field of Speaker Identification in forensic is one of the oldest application of speech science. Listening test and spectrogram reading have been the most popular approach in this specific task for many years. We introduce a method based on the comparison of vowel formant, and we describe the associated software tools that let you easily perform a complete speaker identification test: star...

Discrimination and identification experiments were performed for a vowel continuum (/i//I/-/e/) and two consonant continua (/ba/-/pa/and/ba/-/da/-/ga/). The results were interpreted in terms of a generalization of a theory of intensity resolution [N. I. Durlach and L. D. Braida, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 46, 372-383 (1969) ] that makes precise the distinction between basic sensitivity (sensory-based ...

Prior research has shown that the search function in the visual letter search task may reflect the regularities of the orthographic structure of a given script. In the present experiment, we examined whether the search function of letter detection was sensitive to consonant-vowel status of a pre-cued letter. Participants had to detect the presence/absence of a previously cued letter target (eit...

This paper deals with an approach to Automatic Language Identification using only prosodic modeling. The traditional approach for language identification focuses mainly on phonotactics because it gives the best results. Recent studies reveal that humans use different levels of perception to identify a language, in particular prosodic cues. Among prosodic features, rhythm is known to carry a sub...

In this paper we discuss the significance of Vowel Onset Point (VOP) for speech recognition in particular, and for accurate speech analysis in general. Vowel onset point is the instant at which the vowel part starts in a ConsonantVowel (CV) utterance. The syllable-like CV utterances are basic units for both speech production and speech recognition. Recognition performance of isolated utterances...

This study investigates the perceptual role of several acoustic characteristics to glide generation processes affecting the consonants [t], [beta] and [eta], i.e., the vocalization of syllable-final [t] and syllable-initial [beta] into [w], and the insertion of [j] before syllable-final [eta]. Results from identification tests with synthetic speech stimuli performed on Catalan-speaking informan...

This paper deals with the perception of vowels from French stop bursts. The corpus was made up of 90 stimuli of 20-25 ms duration extracted from natural CVC and CV words. The syllables combined the initial stops /p,t,k/ with the vowels /i,a,u/. In order to cut off all traces of vocalic segment, bursts whose duration was too short were lengthened. Eight native speakers of French served as listen...

A model was quantified to describe the integration of vowel duration, fricative duration, and fundamental frequency (F0) contour as cues to final position fricatives differing in voicing. The basic assumptions are that perceived vowel duration and perceived frication duration are cues to the identity of final position fricatives and that both Fo contour and vowel duration influence perceived vo...

Research on vowel space dispersion has found that vowel spaces are less dispersed when lexical and contextual factors favor identification of a word (e. g., a highly predictable word), and vowel spaces are more dispersed when lexical and contextual factors create an environment for less predictability [1, 2]. Examining sound changes in progress, recent work has demonstrated that, for some vowel...