Abstract Replication studies have become an emerging line of research in recent decades, including computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Exact replication, which closely follows a study’s protocol, is rare as it hard to recreate results without establishing highly controlled environment. However, using data available online, we were able conduct exact replication Łodzikowski’s (2021) stud...

There is ample evidence that individuals with dyslexia have a phonological deficit. A growing body of research also suggests that individuals with dyslexia have problems with categorical perception, as evidenced by weaker discrimination of between-category differences and better discrimination of within-category differences compared to average readers. Whether the categorical perception problem...

This study deals with the allophones of several phonemes pronounced by a voice actor in performing character animation movie. It concerns stylistic analysis phonetic and phonology levels that reinforce performance. The data are taken from utterances spoken Adam Sandler, Count Dracula Hotel Transylvania-2. method is through descriptive qualitative based on approaches. By comparing general Americ...

We describe an asymmetric categorical pattern of onset-coda allophony for English /r/, the postalveolar rhotic approximant, drawing on published and unpublished information on over 100 child, teenage and adult speakers from prior studies. Around two thirds of the speakers exhibited allophonic variation that was subtle: onset and coda /r/ were typically both bunched (BB), or both tipraised (RR),...

Evidence from many languages in the world blatantly shows that among the many entities analysed as phonemes, some constitute better candidates to phonemicity than others. For instance, the /ð/ vs. /Ɵ/ opposition in English yields very few minimal pairs (thy/thigh, either/ether – the latter, not in all accents). Given its extremely small functional load, this contrast is far from prototypical, w...

This paper exemplifies the need for collecting extensive experimental data on the languagedependent articulatory and acoustic characteristics of vowels and consonants. It reports data on constriction location for (alveolo)palatal consonants, and on the F2 frequency for allophonic realizations of different varieties of /l/, in several language groups.

The present study investigates whether native speakers of German phonetically accommodate to natural and synthetic voices in a shadowing experiment. We aim determine this phenomenon, which is frequently found HHI, also occurs HCI involving speech. examined features pertain different phonetic domains: allophonic variation, schwa epenthesis, realization pitch accents, word-based temporal structur...

In the paper the procedure of the sound unit inventory construction for English concatenative speech synthesis is described and the results of perceptual tests aimed at evaluating the quality of allophonic inventory are presented. The main criteria of the evaluation were the degree of naturalness and intelligibility of the resulting synthesized speech.