Since the seminal work of Lindblom (1963) a wealth of studies have investigated undershoot and the factors governing its occurrence and variability. However, although sex-specific differences in reduction patterns have been found in adults (Byrd 1994; Whiteside 1996), as well as in children (McCormack & Knighton 1996), possible sex-specific differences in formant transitions and in particular u...

All spoken languages show rhythmic patterns. Recent work with a number of different languages (English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and French) suggests that metrically (hierarchically) assigned stress levels of the utterance show strong correlations with the amount of jaw displacement, and corresponding F1 values. This paper examines some articulatory and acoustic correlates of Spanish rhythm;...

one of the major problems in reproduction of potato minitubers, is the low germination due to dormancy period that it’s led to low germination percentage, vigor and rot of tubers planted. therefore a factorial experiment based on the completely randomized design with three replications was carried out with a topic of the effects of application of rindite in various concentrations (0, 0.2, 0.4 a...

Objectives: Voice is influenced by personality. However, it is still questionable which acoustic features are influenced by personality traits. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between acoustic characteristics and personality dimensions. Methods: Thirty-three participants with dysphonia and 33 participants without dysphonia were recruited to take part in this cross-sectional st...

The relationship between vowel nasalization and vowel quality has been examined in many studies, yet results are conflicting. This study examined nasal vowels in Pwo language. The result showed that low nasal vowels had more nasalization than mid nasal vowels. A high correlation between nasalization and vowel duration was also found. Additionally, percentages of the total nasal duration were ro...