Audiovisual interaction was found on the perception of frequency glide of linear sweep tones. The auditory and visual stimuli were designed to simulate the formant trajectories of the syllables that induced the McGurk effect. Linear sweep tones were used for the auditory stimuli. For the visual stimuli, moving spheres were used. The frequency glide was differently perceived depending on the sph...

This paper presents an analysis of DRESS and FLEECE in the speech of 80 New Zealanders. We show that DRESS is continuing to raise as part of the New Zealand English front vowels chain shift until it has almost completely overlapped the space occupied by FLEECE. In response, FLEECE is developing a more pronounced on-glide, so that a long vowel is becoming caught up in what has been a short vowel...

The purpose of this paper is to test whether the Simple Syllable Structure (SSS) proposed by Duanmu (1990:[2]) is true of English onsets or not. If the SSS holds for English onset, English onglides should be secondary articulations on the onset consonant rather than separate sounds. We will test this by measuring the duration of the initial consonant –glide combination, to determine whether it ...

The current paper presents the results of a preliminary survey of vowel harmony systems. The purpose of this survey is to gain a better understanding of transparency in vowel harmony; both vowel transparency and glide transparency. In §2, I lay out how I selected the languages for inclusion in the current survey of harmony systems. Additionally, I outline what information I collected about each...

Book Review: Inside Prime Time. By Todd Gitlin. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983. Pp. viii +372. $16. 95. This review is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/157

The aim of this study was to investigate the in vitro cytotoxicity of oseltamivir derivatives and determine their activity against A/H1N1/PR/8/34 and A/H3N2/HongKong/8/68 - strains of influenza virus. Antiviral activity of these compounds was determined by using two methods. MTT staining was used to assess the viability of MDCK cells infected with influenza viruses and treated with various conc...