This study investigated how coda voicing contrast in English would be phonetically encoded in the temporal vs. spectral dimension of the preceding vowel (in vowel duration vs. F1/F2) by Korean L2 speakers of English, and how their L2 phonetic encoding pattern would be compared to that of native English speakers. Crucially, these questions were explored by taking into account the phonetics-proso...

In many sports, players are often required to accelerate immediately after rapid changes of direction (CODs) before performing a subsequent COD movement. Therefore, court-based players will often not attain their maximum velocity before having to decelerate and change direction. The purpose of this study was to determine what kinematic factors affected fast and slow straight acceleration (SA) a...

Prosody serves an important function in speech communication: prosodic phrasing groups words into pragmatically and semantically coherent smaller chunks and prosodic prominence encodes the discourse-level status and rhythmic structure of a word within a phrase. Acoustic cues to prosody are available from the speech signal and can be used by listeners to recover the pragmatic and discourse meani...

Previous auditory and acoustic research reports variation in /l/ between ‘Asian’ and ‘Anglo’ speakers of British English, with Asian speakers producing ‘clearer’ realisations of /l/ than Anglo speakers from the same geographical region [8, 11, 22]. Whilst research on /r/ in British Asian English suggests variable rhoticity [8, 9], less work has documented /r/ variation in this community in non-...

Seventeen speakers of Standard Dutch participated in a production experiment that investigated the effects of focus condition (broad, narrow, corrective focus) on the prosodic realization of nuclear accented words in declarative sentences. It was found that focus has an effect on the duration of onset and coda of the nuclear accented syllable as well as on the timing, scaling, and slope of f0 t...

Sequences of high tense vowel + liquid in English often result in the percept of an intervening schwa, as in, e.g., heel, hail, hire. We argue in this paper that this apparent schwa is simply the incidental acoustic result of the tongue moving through “schwa-space” (a schwa-like position) during the transition between conflicting tongue root targets. This conflict bears on both articulatory tim...

paper describes a knowledge-based approach to automate CODARTS, a software design method for concurrent and real-time systems. The approach uses multiple paradigms to represent knowledge embedded within CODARTS. Semantic data modeling provides the means to model specifications and related designs. A specification meta-model enables automated inferences about the presence of semantic concepts wi...

The survey studies the minor components' changes in directly brined Aloreña de Málaga table olive fat during processing and shelf life, using standard-multivariate statistics (SM), multifactor (MFA), compositional data (CoDa) analyses. General Linear Model (GLM) showed a significant increase polar compounds (mainly oxidised triacylglycerols diacylglycerols), fatty alcohols (hexacosanol (C26) oc...