Measuring dialect distances can be based on the comparison of words, and the comparison words should be based on the comparison of sounds. In this research we used an adjusted version of an articulation-based system, developed by Almeida and Braun (1986) for finding sound distances, using the IPA system. For comparison of two pronunciations of a word corresponding with two different varieties, ...

15 (Received 6 March 2012; revised 30 October 2012; accepted 17 December 2012) 16 17 Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rtMRI) was used to examine mechanisms of sound 18 production by an American male beatbox artist. rtMRI was found to be a useful modality with 19 which to study this form of sound production, providing a global dynamic view of the midsagittal 20 vocal tract at frame rates su...

Speech is the product of articulation and information on the sound forming articulatory gestures of the tongue and the lips is of major interest not only in speech therapy and phonetic research, but in speech synthesis and coding as well. Various attempts have been made to describe these important articulators using established imaging techniques like ultrasound, electromagnetic articulography ...

A prototype system is described that aims to modify a musical recording in an expressive way using a set of performance rules controlling tempo, sound level and articulation. The audio signal is aligned with an enhanced score file containing performance rules information. A timefrequency transformation is applied, and the peaks in the spectrogram, representing the harmonics of each tone, are tr...

A model for the identification of speech sounds is proposed that assumes that (a) the acoustic cues are perceived independently, (b) feature evaluation provides information about the degree to which each quality is present in the speech sound, (c) each speech sound is denned by a propositional prototype in longterm memory that determines how the featural information is integrated, and (d) the s...

In a recent article, Gorik Ooms has drawn attention to the normative underpinnings of the politics of global health. We claim that Ooms is indirectly submitting to a liberal conception of politics by framing the politics of global health as a question of individual morality. Drawing on the theoretical works of Chantal Mouffe, we introduce a conflictual concept of the political as an alternative...

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In earlier work, we have shown that articulation rate in Swedish child-directed speech (CDS) increases as a function of the age of the child, even when utterance length and differences in articulation rate between subjects are controlled for. In this paper we show on utterance level in spontaneous Swedish speech that i) for the youngest children, articulation rate in CDS is lower than in adult-...

Listeners associate certain vowels and consonants with specific meanings, known as phonetic/sound symbolism. For example, the vowel // is often associated with small, thin and more female entities compared to the vowel //. Sound symbolism studies so far mainly focused on the effects of intrinsic pitch (F0) of vowels while no research has taken other intrinsic properties, such as intensity, in...

The objective of this study was to describe the process of intensive speech therapy for a 6-year-old child using compensatory articulations while presenting with velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) and a history of cleft lip and palate. The correction of VPI was temporarily done with a pharyngeal obturator since the child presented with very little movement of the pharyngeal walls during speech,...