We report two experiments in which vowels and steady-state consonants served as targets in a speeded detection task. In the first experiment, two vowels were compared with one voiced and once unvoiced fricative. Response times (RTs) to the vowels were longer than to the fricatives. The error rate was higher for the consonants. Consonants in word-final position produced (he shortest RTs. For the...

In this paper, the Norwegian retroflex fricative /ʂ/ is investigated through the combined use of electropalatography (EPG) and electromagnetic articulography (EMA) based on four informants. Cross linguistic investigations of retroflex consonants have shown that there are three characteristics often present in their articulation: an apical articulation, a posterior place of articulation, and a b...

In this demonstration, the mapping and the gestural control strategy developed in the Digitartic are presented. Digitartic is a musical instrument able to control sung syllables. Performative rule-based synthesis allows for controlling semi-consonants, plosive, fricative and nasal consonants with a same gesture, despite the structural differences in natural production of such vocal segments. A ...

Listening skills are language that affect the development of learning, especially for second learners. In learning process listening skills, mistakes often occur. This can happen because influence first on process. study aims to describe sound errors by observing beginner BIPA learners from China who do not use alphabet in their language. research is a text analysis which analyzes students' wri...

Production of certain English phonemes relies heavily on effort from the abdominal region, and under-utilization this region by second language speakers can create difficulties pronouncing these sounds. In particular, production long vowel/diphthong sounds requires sustained contraction to maintain length phonemes, voiced fricative consonants a sharp burst expel air lungs adequately voice conso...

This study aims to understand if and how French subjects perceive vocal effort in a production task. Vocal effort is engaged through all voiced phonemes. Consonants are particularly interesting because they constrain voice production in many ways. To study vocal effort in these phonemes, which also involve articulatory effort, we first want to assess if it is possible for speakers to perceive v...

The article presents the method elaborated by the authors for automatic prolongation detection in utterances by the people who stutter. Fricative and nasals consonants were focused upon, as they are the most frequently prolonged ones. Fuzziness was applied in the scales of time, frequency and level of distinctive features of a given manner of articulation. The presented method was verified in c...

This article reports on segmental duration measurements of eight selected consonants (voiceless obstruents, nasals and liquids) and three vowels in 192 disyllabic (CVCe) nonsense words with stress on the first syllable, spoken in isolation by 12 Spanish speakers. Durations as measured based on acoustic discontinuities are discussed along with speaker variability. The intrinsic and context-depen...

It is hard to define aspiration noise phenomenally. Although it occurs as a “part of a voiced sound such as vowels” (Kob 2002), a distinction is made as a contrary to friction that happens on the vocal path and leads to fricative consonants (Jackson 2000). The characteristic of aspiration noise, as denoted by Jackson (2000), is broadband, with an hlike sound. It is, being more physically reveal...