Prosodic structure encodes the grouping of words into hierarchically layered prosodic constituents, including the prosodic word, intermediate phrase (ip) and intonational phrase (IP). This paper investigates the phonetic encoding of prosodic structure from a corpus of scripted broadcast news speech in American English through analysis of the acoustic correlates of prosodic boundary and their in...

Morphologically derivative languages form words by fusing stems and suffixes, are important to be extracted in order make cross lingual alignment knowledge transfer. As there phonetic harmony disharmony when linguistic particles combined, both morphological changes need analyzed. This paper proposes a multilingual stemming method that learns morpho-phonetic automatically based on character embe...

Results from two experiments on acquisition of the word initial voicing contrast are compared, one on perception, one on production. Both involved monolingual and bilingual (French/English) subjects. Monolinguals are shown to have frequent disparities between their use of parameters in production and perception. Furthermore, bilingualism is found to affect subjects' production and their percept...

ness, possibly as a continuum from optional to obligatory and from gradient to categorical (see Scobbie 2007 for a related proposal). A simplified schematic representation of these continua, representing speaker K3’s (presumed) knowledge of coronal and labial assimilation, is shown in Fig. 6. On the optional/obligatory dimension, both processes are optional (variable), yet differ in the relativ...

Mapping from acoustic signals to lexical representations is a complex process mediated by a number of different levels of representation. This paper reviews properties of the phonetic and phonological levels, and hypotheses about how category structure is represented at each of these levels, and evaluates these in light of relevant electrophysiological studies of phonetics and phonology. The pa...

This paper analyzes inter-labeler agreement of label choice and boundary placement for human phonetic transcriptions of continuous telephone speech in diierent languages. In experiment one, English, German, Mandarin and Spanish are labeled by uent speakers of the languages. In experiment two, German and Hindi are labeled by linguists who do not speak the languages. Experiment two uses a somewha...

A semi-automatic process for generating time-aligned transcriptions of speech data at the word and phone level is described. At each stage in the process, segment durations are estimated to generate approximate boundary markers, which are then corrected by hand. Corrections at one level are taken into account in the generation of boundaries for the next level, such that the error is reduced at ...

According to a somewhat unconventional view, speech is managed by a specialization for language-a phonetic module-at the level of action and perception. There, the processes and primitives are specifically phonetic, not, as is more commonly assumed, generally motor and auditory. The less conventional view is nevertheless the more plausible because it (1) better illuminates the biological nature...