This study examines the phonetic properties of lexical stress in English produced by Persian speakers learning English as a foreign language. The four most reliable phonetic correlates of English lexical stress, namely fundamental frequency, duration, intensity, and vowel quality were measured across Persian speakers’ production of the stressed and unstressed syllables of five English disyllabi...

The linguistic means of creating a language game in French advertising texts at the phonetic, lexical, word-formation, grammatical levels are investigated. Homophones and paronyms distinguished on phonetic level, stylistic tropes – figures grammatical, contamination word-formation. Cases combinations different some established.

The subject of the research is loanwords form Turkic languages in Russian language. basic rules for development language, its connections with history society different periods are clearly manifested precisely vocabulary. Loanwords from were borrowed through oral speech. This led to emergence various options borrowing. article describes internal loanwords, reflected their composition, functioni...

While developing lexical resources for a particular language variety (Viennese), we experimented with a set of 5 different phonetic encodings, termed phone sets, used for unit selection speech synthesis. We started with a very rich phone set based on phonological considerations and covering as much phonetic variability as possible, which was then reduced to smaller sets by applying transformati...

This study examined English pronunciation by Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to see how the application of IPA can be used in language education. Twenty university students, divided into two groups, one with the IPA training and the other without the training, were asked to read 30 English words (5 controls) that contain challenging sounds (e.g., l...

This paper presents algorithms for generating targeted name lists for candidate out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words for applications in language processing, particularly speech recognition. Focusing on names, which are shown to be the dominant class of OOVs in news broadcasts, the approach involves offline generation of a large name list and online pruning based on a phonetic distance. The resulting ...

Prosodic structure encodes the grouping of words into hierarchically layered prosodic constituents, including the prosodic word, intermediate phrase (ip) and intonational phrase (IP). This paper investigates the phonetic encoding of prosodic structure from a corpus of scripted broadcast news speech in American English through analysis of the acoustic correlates of prosodic boundary and their in...

The main goal of this work is to develop an alternative methodology for acoustic{ phonetic modelling of speech sounds. The approach utilizes a segment{based framework to capture the dynamical behavior and statistical dependencies of the acoustic attributes used to represent the speech waveform. Temporal behavior is modelled explicitly by creating dynamic tracks of the acoustic attributes used t...