Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the Guatemalan highlands. We provide overview of phonetics and phonology Uspanteko, focussing on phenomena which are common languages and/or typologically interesting. These include glottalised consonants (ejectives, implosives, glottal stop), uvular consonants, vowel length contrasts, syllable structure, stress, lexical t...

INTRODUCTION Tinnitus is a perception of sound without external source. For complete assessment of tinnitus, central auditory processing abilities should be considered in addition to the routine psychological evaluation of tinnitus characteristics. Temporal processing is one of the important auditory skills that are necessary for complex higher level auditory processing. MATERIALS AND METHODS...

The performance of video tone-mapping operators is investigated in a rating experiment using two criteria: overall quality and fidelity to real-world experience. The study includes a tone-curve used in commercial cameras, rarely considered in tone-mapping evaluation studies. The quality is measured for a range of parameter settings, revealing the importance of parameter fine-tuning and often un...

This study investigates acoustic correlates of prominence in Lizu (Tibeto-Burman). has been argued to have a hybrid prosodic system combining lexical tone on monosyllabic words and patterns with stress-like tonal characteristics polysyllabic words, although empirical evidence is lacking. presents an investigation the pitch disyllabic Kala variety (HL, HH, LH). Using parameters duration, intensi...

This paper uses corpus analysis to explore relationships between tone and melody in folk contemporary songs Chaozhou, a Chinese dialect with eight lexical tones wealth of sandhi. Results suggest that: (1) there is high degree correspondence Chaozhou song; (2) sandhi influences tone-melody correspondence; (3) realised context can be categorised into high-, mid-, low-pitch groups according the to...

Abstract Features are standard in segmental analysis but have been less successfully applied to tone. Subtonal features even argued be satisfactory for the representation of African tone than tonal primitives such as H, M, L (Hyman 2010; Clements et al. 2010). I argue that two-feature system Yip (1980) and Pulleyblank (1986) offers a straightforward account tonology Laal, an endangered, three-t...

Should an alphabetic orthography for a tone language include tone marks? Opinion and practice are divided along three lines: zero marking, phonemic marking and various reduced marking schemes. This paper examines the success of phonemic tone marking for Dschang, a Grassfields Bantu language which uses tone to distinguish lexical items and some grammatical constructions. Participants with a vari...