Spelling of cross-linguistically very similar nonwords was compared in 115 Danish and 77 Icelandic children (primarily 3rd and 4th graders). Danish children made more errors than Icelandic children on word medial consonant doublets and on word initial consonant clusters, even when the groups compared were matched on simpler spelling tasks. These results suggest that the acquisition of phonemic ...

The multiband product rule, also known as band-independence, is a basic assumption of articulation index and its extension, the speech intelligibility index. Previously Fletcher showed its validity for a balanced mix of 20% consonant-vowel (CV), 20% vowel-consonant (VC), and 60% consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) sounds. This study repeats Miller and Nicely's version of the hi-/lo-pass experiment ...

This paper proposes the novel technique for separation of Thai consonant naming or consonant spelling using its tones. Consonant spelling is used for many applications such as a voice-actuated typewriter that helping to correct the confusable word in sound. Because fundamental frequency (F0) can be suitably used in tone classification for Thai speech recognition, which is tonal language of five...

The idea of the consonant duration relative to the vowel duration as a cue to voicing of postvocalic consonants is almost three decades old. Port and Dalby (1982) offer what they believeto be convincing support for such a view. We argue that the acceptance of this idea is premature and probably incorrect. In every instance that the concept of consonant! vowel (C/V) ratio is contrasted with an a...

We demonstrate that adult English speakers make use of perceptual principles in medial consonant cluster deletion. Cross-linguistically, consonant cluster simplification via deletion is more likely apply to the first consonant rather than the second consonant (if both consonants are of equal sonority). Adult native English speakers, were given a two-alternative forced-choice task in which eithe...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of vowel context on the recognition of Kannada consonants in quiet for young adults. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 17 young adults with normal hearing in both ears participated in the study. The stimuli included consonant-vowel syllables, spoken by 12 native speakers of Kannada. Consonant recognition task ...

In this paper we extend the geometric approach to the theory of evidence in order to include other important finite fuzzy measures. In particular we describe the geometric counterparts of the class of possibility measures represented by consonant belief functions. The correspondence between chains of subsets and convex sets of consonant functions is studied and its properties analyzed, eventual...

Using a computer-based system that provided visual feedback, a 13-year-old child with a severe-to-profound hearing loss was treated for a pattern of inconsistent consonant devoicing within an ABAB single-subject treatment design with multiple baselines. During a 5-week treatment phase his consonant devoicing was treated to criterion at the consonant-vowel level. A treatment effect was demonstra...

The so-called overapplication of Coda Neutralization in Korean, the occurrence of a neutralized consonant in a non-neutralizing environment, is often considered as evidence for serial derivation. In this paper I propose that the neutralization effect at surface is not a result of a phonological process at an intermediate level in serial derivation, but due to a constraint requiring the integrit...

This study evaluated the relative contributions of temporal fine structure cues in different frequency bands to Mandarin speech recognition both in quiet and in noise. Chinese tone, vowel, consonant and sentence recognition scores were measured in a 4-channel continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) simulation model with six kinds of carriers: all noise carriers (N1234), all fine structure carrier...