It is widely claimed that close vowels in Japanese are devoiced when they occur between voiceless consonants. In this paper, voiceless vowels are represented symbolically as [V-] and voiced vowels as [V+]. The patterns of linguopalatal contact during C[V-]C units and the corresponding C[V+]C units are examined using the method of electropalatography (EPG). Our results show that C[V-]C units and...

The well-studied phenomenon of vowel lengthening before tense sonorants in Modern Irish (Ó Siadhail 1989, Ó Siadhail and Wigger 1975, Ó Baoill 1979), exemplified in (1), is now well understood as a compensatory process (see for example Ní Chiosain 1991). Tense or long sonorants (L, L', R', N, N', m) trigger vowel lengthening and/or diphthongization. What is not clear about this phenomenon is th...

Japanese vowel devoicing was investigated from the viewpoint of perception, an approach which has not been taken in any previous studies. It appears in some dialects of Japanese, including Tokyo dialect. Three tests, a vowel preference test, a same/different test, and an inter-stimulus interval effect test were performed. In the vowel preference tests, 46.3% of devoiced vowel dialects speakers ...

In this paper, we study human perception of consonants in the presence of additive babble noise at two speaking rates. In addition, we work on a model that attempts to replicate these human results through a phoneme recognition model. Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) stimuli comprising of a set of 13 consonants and 3 vowels (/a/, /i/, /u/) were recorded in a sound proof booth by two talkers at t...

This study is to examine if typological universals built upon primary languages are applicable to interlanguage data in SLA. Implicational universal is considered the classic example of a typological universal by Croft (2003). Thus, the Interlanguage Structural Conformity Hypothesis, which consists of two implicational universals proposed by Eckman (1991), were tested against data from an inter...

In Eastern Andalusian Spanish, consonants are deleted in syllable-final position, triggering regular gemination of a following consonant, even across word boundaries. This paper investigates five underlying phonemic contexts involving /t/, including singleton /t/ and four different /C+t/ sequences that typically surface as [t:], by analyzing how durational formant differences vary depending on ...

This study attempts to describe the ability of English Department students, Faculty Humanities, Udayana University in pronouncing final consonant clusters. Consonant clusters are groups consonants that can occur initia lly (onset) and finally (coda) syllable structure. The features each language highly dependent on itself. In English, number at beginning a be up three such as: structure /strʌkt...

Abstract Morphologists of different backgrounds disagree with respect to the degree autonomy morphological component language from syntax and semantics. A precise objective quantification diachronic productivity Romance morphomes is piece evidence most crucially missing this debate. On basis 502 morphophonological innovations associated loss stem-final consonants across 63 varieties, paper quan...

Foreign accent syndrome occurs rarely after stroke. Most patients with this syndrome develop an aphasia characterized by a new accent. This report presents a 48-year-old man who sustained a left parietal hemorrhagic stroke resulting in right hemiparesis and the inability to speak. As spontaneous speech emerged several weeks later, he was noted to have a Broca's aphasia and a Dutch accent. Analy...

Listeners identified a phonetically balanced set of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words and nonsense syllables in noise at four signal-to-noise ratios. The identification scores for phonemes and syllables were analyzed using the j-factor model [Boothroyd and Nittrouer, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 84, 101-114 (1988)], which measures the perceptual independence of the parts of a whole. Results indicate...