The paper presents the results of a 2AFC offline wordidentification experiment by [1], reanalyzed to investigate how F0 discontinuities due to voiceless fricatives and voiceless stops affect cues to word segmentation in accentual-phraseinitial rises (APRs) of French relative to a reference condition with liquid and nasal consonants. Although preliminary due to the small sample size, we found in...

Totally 41 postlingually deafened adult patients who have received multi-channel cochlear implants at Stockholm Söder Hospital have participated in this study. All patients have followed the CI-programme at the clinic and have been tested 0, 6, 12, and 24 months postoperatively. The test-battery consisted of vowels (cVc) and consonants (vCv), Everyday Sentences(ES), and Connected Discourse Trac...

Purpose: To verify the occurrence of the phonological process of plosives and fricatives devoicing in children with phonological disorders. The following variables were involved: most affected phonemes, severity of phonological disorder, and age. Methods: Participants were 50 children, with an average age of 6 years and 5 months. Speech data were collected by means of the Avaliação Fonológica d...

Chinese languages have a set of segments known as apical vowels, which been analysed in previous studies either genuine fricative consonants, or approximants. This study is concerned with the vowel attested Jixi-Hui Chinese. We examine this segment from acoustic and articulatory perspectives argue that it best defined /z/. Phonologically, /z/ distinct phoneme exclusively syllable nucleus positi...

Frequency lowering is a form of signal processing designed to match speech to the residual auditory capacity of a listener with a high frequency hearing loss. A vocoder-based frequency-lowering system similar to one studied by Lippmann was evaluated in the present study. In this system, speech levels in high frequency bands modulated one-third-octave bands of noise at low frequencies, which wer...

Variation in voicing is common among sounds of the world’s languages: that are analyzed as voiceless can undergo voicing, and those voiced devoice. Among glottal particular, widespread: linguists often expect stop [ʔ] fricative [h] to be fully voiced, especially between vowels. In this study, we use audio recordings from Illustrations International Phonetic Alphabet published Journal Associatio...

In this paper, the acoustic-phonetic characteristics and the automatic recognition of the American English fricatives are investigated. The acoustic features that exist in the literature are evaluated and new features are proposed. To test the value of the extracted features, a knowledge-based acoustic-phonetic system for the automatic recognition of fricatives, in speaker independent continuou...

This study explores metathesis in Syrian Arabic (SyA). The data reveal two types of metatheses. Type-I is phonologically conditioned, involving at least one the four root consonants, ʒ, f, ʕ and ћ with fricatives (z, s), liquids (l, r) or gutturals (q/ʔ) specific positions within regardless word derivation. Type-II morpho-phonologically Standard reflexive Pattern VIII, (ʔi)ftaʕal, that resulted...

In this study, we characterize the noise sources and the critical parts of vocal tract area functions for the synthesis of voiceless fricatives. We derive these characteristics indirectly by fitting synthetic to natural fricative spectra in an interactive procedure. The adjustable parameters are the number, location, type, amplitude, and spectral shape of the noise sources as well as the cross-...