Formant frequency data for Catalan vowels reveal essentially the same degree of expansion for three dialect systems with seven vowels (Valencian, Eastern Catalan, Western Catalan). A slightly larger vowel space dispersion for a fourth system with those same vowels and stressed /c/ (Majorcan) is not clearly associated with a larger vowel system size but rather with a local effect of schwa in rep...

The necessity of recognizing handwritten characters is increasing day by because its various applications. objective this paper to provide a sophisticated, effective and efficient way recognize classify Bangla characters. Here an extended convolutional neural network (CNN) model has been proposed Our CNN tested on “BanglalLekha-Isolated” dataset where there are 10 classes for digits, 11 vowels ...

Consonants and vowels may play different roles during language processing, consonants being preferentially involved in lexical processing, and vowels tending to mark syntactic constituency through prosodic cues. In support of this view, artificial language learning studies have demonstrated that consonants (C) support statistical computations, whereas vowels (V) allow certain structural general...

European Portuguese (EP) is characterized by a large number of nasals encompassing five phonemic nasal vowels. One notable characteristic these sounds their dynamic nature, involving both oral and gestures, which makes study characterization challenging. The vowels, in particular, has been addressed using wide range technologies: early descriptions were based on acoustics nasalance, later expan...

This paper presents acoustic and articulatory (ultrasound) data on vowel reduction in Polish. The analysis focuses the question of whether change formant value unstressed vowels can be explained by duration-driven undershoot alone or there is also evidence for additional stress-specific mechanisms that systematically affect formants. On top expected durational differences between stressed condi...

language is a system and every system has rules that govern the structure of its vocabulary. the rules of the arabic language are based on the vowels that consistent with the meanings used in the context represent the words' position. there are some basic rules in addition to vowels which are mostly seen in the written texts. one of these rules is the matching rule that refers to the condi...

In this study, we investigate how listeners classify non-native vowels, comparing classification of synthetically produced stimuli to that of natural stimuli. A forced choice identification task reveals that synthetic vowels are labeled differently from natural vowels and take more processing time. Participants are also less concordant in labeling synthetic tokens as compared to natural tokens....

0. Introduction The vowel system of Southern Standard Dutch in Flanders consists of 12 vowels which can be distinguished on the basis of three articulatory dimensions. The degree of opening of vowels (closed vs. open) correlates with the degree of constriction of the vocal tract, while a distinction can be made between front, mid and back vowels on the basis of place of articulation. This verti...