Ultrasound can be used to address unresolved questions in phonological theory. To date, some studies have shown that results from ultrasound imaging can shed light on how differences in phonological elements are implemented. Phenomena that have been investigated include transitional schwa, vowel coalescence, and transparent vowels. A study of consonant cluster phonotactics is presented as an ex...

An advanced distributed file system like Coda is an integral part of today’s mobile environment. This is due to the limitations of having large storage capacities on small mobile devices, finite battery life and the ubiquitous nature of wireless networking today. However, systems such as Coda do not perform optimally on low bandwidth connections such as low-speed error prone wireless links and ...

[1] The influence of density variation on scattering is investigated in terms of attenuation, coda level, and apparent frequency shift. The influence of density variations is to producemore scattered energy than for velocity perturbations alone with a consequently higher coda level. The temporal decay of the coda is reduced, so that high perturbations in density are associated with a long durat...

In this study, statistical analysis is used to investigate nasal coda loss in spoken Standard Chinese. In order to find out the factors that influence nasal coda loss, we take into account the segmental and supra-segmental features and their interactions. We find out that articulation manner, post nasal coda boundary and tone influenced the nasal coda loss significantly, the interaction between...

We investigated articulatory movements of native Japanese speakers’ productions of non-native consonant clusters, using the WAVE system (NDI Corp.). Four Japanese male speakers pronounced “blat”, “bnat”, “btat”, and “pnat” 10 times each in a carrier sentence. Tongue tip displacement from the first to the second consonant varied greatly among the speakers. An ANOVA with two factors, Speaker and ...

This research examined acoustic-phonetic cues to word boundary location in French consonant clusters, and assessed their use in on-line lexical segmentation. Two word-spotting experiments manipulated the alignment between word targets and syllable boundaries. A perceptual cost of such misalignment was observed for obstruent-liquid clusters but not for /s/ + obstruent clusters. For the former cl...

This paper provides an overview of the CODA framework for modelling and refinement of componentbased embedded systems. CODA is an extension of Event-B and UML-B and is supported by a plugin for the Rodin toolset. CODA augments Event-B with constructs for component-based modelling including components, communications ports, port connectors, timed communications and timing triggers. Component beh...

Previous research has shown that speakers do not produce all non-native phonotactic sequences with equal accuracy. Several reasons for these accuracy differences have been proposed, including markedness, analogical extension from permitted sequences, and language-independent phonetic factors. In this study, evidence from the production of unattested obstruent-initial onset clusters by English a...

Judeo-Spanish (JS) denotes those varieties of Spanish preserved by the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 and have emigrated throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. Some descriptions of JS emphasize its conservative, archaic nature, highlighting its similarities to Old Spanish (OS), while other research points up the novel characteristics that d...

Empirically, the onset-rhyme structure of syllabic constituents has been revealed in several types of experiment: using word-games [1], or auditory priming stimuli or visual priming of auditory stimuli [2, 3]. These experiments are designed supposing that perception of the auditory prime and the separate perception of a visual target (text or image) are mediated by the same structural model of ...