This is a phonetic study of the prosody of bisyllabic and polysyllabic words in Hong Kong Cantonese. The values of the three prosodic properties, duration, F0, and intensity, of the words are determined by the type of tones on the component syllables of words as well as the position of the syllables in the words. The F0 characteristic of the citation tones is maintained, where they are realized...

Inter-consonantal cohesion in French word-initial CC clusters is investigated in light of recent proposals of gestural coordination. Specifically, the timing of lip and tongue movements of C1/l/ and C1/n/ productions, with C1 being one of the consonants /p, f, k/, of two speakers were studied using electromagnetic articulography (EMA). In French, C/l/ clusters occur frequently in word-initial p...

This study examines acoustic and aerodynamic characteristics of consonants in standard Korean and in Cheju, an endangered Korean language. The focus is on the well-known three-way distinction among voiceless stops (i.e., lenis, fortis, aspirated) and the two-way distinction between the voiceless fricatives /s/ and /s*/. While such a typologically unusual contrast among voiceless stops has long ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of voiceless and voiced stop plosives’ realization in speech Russian-speaking children-bilinguals Germany their parents when reading a phonetically representative text aloud. author measures indicator voice delay time relative moment explosion plosive consonants (voicing onset — VOT) bilingual children parents, as she considers it most reliable acoustic fo...

The posi tion of the category boundary along a synthetic [J J-[ sJ noise continuum depends on the following vocalic segment: When the vowel is [u], more "s" responses are given than when the vowel is [aJ. In Experiment I, we showed that this context effect disappears when the vocal ic portion is synthesized so as to contain no formant transitions. To dissociate the contribution of formant trans...

Development in the ability to categorise phonemic contrasts was examined in 85 children aged 6 to 12 and thirteen adult controls using synthetic stimulus continua presented in identification tests. The range of contrasts included a stop voicing contrast (/g/-/k/), a stop place contrast (/d/-/g/), a fricative voicing contrast (/s/-/z/), a fricative place contrast (/s/-/S/), and a fricative-affri...

Natural speech consonant-vowel (CV) syllables [( f, s, theta, s, v, z, ŏ] followed by [i, u, a]) were computer edited to include 20-70 ms of their frication noise in 10-ms steps as measured from their onset, as well as the entire frication noise. These stimuli, and the entire syllables, were presented to 12 subjects for consonant identification. Results show that the listener does not require t...

Three experiments investigated the conditions under which fricative perception is influenced by following vocalic context. In Experiment 1, a reaction-time task, listeners showed no such influences , suggesting that they reached decisions about the fricative category before processing the vocalic context. In Experiment 2, a fixed-standard AX discrimination task employing synthetic fricative noi...