This study investigated how vowel epenthesis, a typical suprasegmental error produced by Japanese learners of English, is realized in their speech production of L2 English. We investigated two aspects: (i) whether loanword epenthesis phonology in Japanese transfers to English speech production, and (ii) how learners’ English proficiency level affects vowel epenthesis. In Japanese loanword phono...

This study was designed to investigate universal mechanisms governing patterns of VH. By discovering how listeners deal with the contextual variation of vowels in the context of other vowels, we look for evidence of the phonetic “seeds” of VH in languages which synchronically do not exhibit it. Listeners’ criteria for front-back differentiation of V1 when V2 is a high front vowel are tested. Th...

introduction: the feedback provided by auditory apparatus equips normal hearing people with an important controlling mechanism over the speech production processes. the speech of hearing-impaired children is both perceptually and acoustically abnormal. this study tried to compare the formant frequencies of three long vowels in persian-speaking children who used cochlear implant and those who we...

Speech sensorimotor adaptation is the short-term learning of modified articulator movements evoked through sensoryfeedback perturbations. A common experimental method manipulates acoustic parameters, such as formant frequencies, using real time resynthesis of the participant's speech to perturb auditory feedback. While some studies have examined phrases comprised of vowels, diphthongs, and semi...

Despite being one of the official languages in Switzerland, phonetic properties Swiss Standard German (SSG) have been studied insufficiently. Regarding Alemannic (ALM) dialects, most available studies dealt with consonants rather than vowels. To counteract this general lack research, study investigates long-vowel inventories four ALM dialects as well their respective SSG varieties regarding vow...

This paper examines intrinsic vowel pitch (IF0) in Moroccan Standard Arabic and Belgian Standard Dutch in order to investigate the hypothesis that IF0 may depend on the size of the vowel inventory. The results of a production task with 11 Moroccan native speakers of Standard Arabic and 10 Belgian native speakers of Dutch reveal that IF0 in Arabic is significantly smaller (1.28 ST) than in Dutch...