Adult non-native perception is subject to influence from a variety of factors, including native language experience. The present research examines the effect of linguistic experience on non-native tone perception and tone word learning. Native Thai and English-speaking participants completed seven sessions of lexical identification training on words distinguished by Cantonese tones. A tone iden...

A novel perturbation approach using additional metalized via-holes for implementation of the dual-band or wide-band dual-mode substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) filters is proposed in this paper. The independent perturbation on the first resonant mode TE101 can be constructed by applying the proposed perturbation approach, whereas the second resonant mode TE102 is not affected. Thus, new kind...

In this work, a new dual-frequency imaging framework of capacitively coupled electrical impedance tomography (CCEIT) is presented. Unlike conventional single-frequency and recently emerged multi-frequency imaging, the adopts two different working frequencies to obtain real part imaginary impedance, respectively. With image reconstructed at frequencies, further introduces fusion fused image. To ...

Since 2015, it has been possible to modify certain emoji with a skin tone. The five different skin tones were introduced with the aim of representing more human diversity, but some commentators feared they might be used as a way to negatively represent other users/groups. This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the use of skin tone modifiers on emoji on Twitter, showing that users with d...

Constraints of lexical tones on semantic activation in spoken word recognition of Chinese were investigated in three crossmodal priming lexical decision experiments. In Experiments 1 and 2, disyllabic compound words that shared the same segmental templates but differed in lexical tones (e.g., tiao4 yue4 vs. tiao2 yue1, jump vs. treaty, numbers indicating tone types) were used as auditory primes...

Abstract: For increased bandwidth savings in packet networks, speech compression algorithms are applied to reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred to adequately reconstruct a telephone signal at the receiver. However, such algorithms do not process pure tones (such as dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF)) with high fidelity, hence all signalling tones must be detected before packetiza...

Unlinkability is a privacy property of crucial importance for several systems (such as RFID or voting systems). Informally, unlinkability states that, given two events/items in a system, an attacker is not able to infer whether they are related to each other. However, in the literature we find several definitions for this notion, which are apparently unrelated and shows a potentially problemati...

This paper presents an improved method for asynchronous embedding and recovery of sub-audible watermarks in speech signals. The watermark, a sequence of DTMF tones, was added to speech without knowledge of its time-varying characteristics. Watermark recovery began by implementing a synchronized zero-phase inverse filtering operation to decorrelate the speech during its voiced segments. The fina...

We investigated native speaker perception of adult learner pronunciations of Northern Vietnamese tone contours to examine how listeners prioritize acoustic cues when they expect non-native speech. The non-native contours consisted of two adult learner renditions of the low falling-rising tone with sweeping final rises similar to and . One fell only as low as , whereas the other began lower than...