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Intra and inter-speaker variability is studied as a way to better understand how voice can be used as biometric data. Formant values from 328,016 exemplars of the 10 French oral vowels uttered by 111 speakers were compared to estimate their speaker discrimination power. The vowels /œ/, /ɛ/ and /a/ appear to convey more idiosyncratic information than other oral vowels. A more comprehensive phone...

We present data on the pronunciation of oral and nasal vowels in northern and southern French varieties. In particular a sharp contrast exists in the fronting of the open /O/ towards [œ] in the North and the denasalisation of nasal vowels in the South. We examine how linguistic changes in progress may affect these vowels, which are governed by the left/right context and bring to light differenc...

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A popular thesis in both traditional and also structural dialectology is that vowels of the same class change manner – this called “Reihenschrittgesetz” (= parallel movement law) (cf. Pfalz 1918). The aim paper to re-examine “law” by investigating recent reflexes MHG ê œ ô rural South South-Central Bavarian dialects. Based on a comprehensive dialectal survey, real- apparent-time comparisons are...

To reply to the criticism of Drs Dobkin and Yeston, we first note that it is based on a previously published report by them and others,' which concluded that pH paper lacks clinical accuracy in guiding prophylaxis for stress gastritis and that reliance on its use would lead to a significant incidence of undertreatment. In two other studies, however, intragastric pH monitored continuously with a...

This paper deals with the measure-theoretical entropy of a linear cellular automaton (LCA) Tf @-l,rD :m Ø m , generated by a bipermutative local rule f Ix-l, ... , xrM  ⁄i-l r ai xi Hmod mL (m ¥ 2 and l, r œ +), with respect to the Bernoulli measure mp on m  defined by a probability vector p  Ip0, p1, ... , pm-1M. We prove that the measure entropy of the one-dimensional LCA Tf @-l,rD wi...

This paper investigates production of the mid vowels /e, ɛ, ø, œ, o, ɔ/ by four speakers of New Caledonian French (NCF). Formant and durational properties of these vowels are examined with respect to the type of syllable in which they occur. Results point to general adherence to the loi de position in NCF, such that the close-mid vowels occur in open syllables and the open-mid vowels occur in c...

Given the striking tolerance across the Salish language family of lengthy sequences of obstruents (O), a fundamental question is how to assess whether such segments are syllabified, or not. Analysis of initial O sequences in the prefixal vs. root domains in h¢ ̃œ¢mi ̃¢Â reveals distinct generalizations with respect to constraints on ¢-epenthesis, on possible length of O clusters, and on featural ...