The paper addresses the question of native speakers’ online awareness and perceptual use of phonetic nasalisation by examining surface nasalisation in two types of surface vowels in Bengali: underlying nasal vowels and nasalised vowels before a nasal consonant. In a cross-modal forced-choice experiment, we investigate the hypothesis that only unpredictable nasalisation is represented and that t...

Assimilation nasality patterns for high, mid and low vowels were studied in two dialects of North American English (Canadian & southeastern American). Native speakers (n=24) produced CVC, NVC, CVN and NVN tokens. The vowel portion of each oral and nasal acoustical signal was transduced by a Nasometer, digitized, and the degree of nasalance established as: % nasalance = nasal rms/(nasal + oral r...

This study explores whether there is an asymmetry with respect to the perceptual salience of an increase vs. a decrease of phonologically relevant features. A forced-choice discrimination experiment was conducted on stimulus pairs that included one member with unchanged phonetic features and the other with either increased or decreased degree of features (i.e., vowel nasality or VOT). The resul...

We propose new data selection approaches based on speaker discriminability features, including kurtosis and a set of nasality features which exploit spectral properties of nasal speech sounds. Data selected based on the speaker discriminability features are used to implement end-to-end speaker recognition systems, which produce significant improvements when combined with the baseline system (wh...

The phonetic realization of nasal vowels produced by Pwo speakers of different ages can vary. The present study investigated mid and low nasal vowels of Pwo speakers from Mae Hong Son province, Thailand. Due to the higher tendency of language contact with Thai, the younger group’s nasal vowels were expected to lose more nasality than the older group. The emergence of final nasal consonants was ...

Objectives: Nasality is one of the important parameters in pathology of voice resonance. Voice of normal adults has nasality to some extent. It appears that nasality, like other parameters of voice, can be affected by loudness which can be measured in experimental evaluations. This study was conducted to determine the effect of vocal loudness on nasalance of vowels in normal adults and to ident...

The present study examines the effects of nasality and utterance length on memory of familiar speakers using the technique of voice line-ups. With this technique, presented speakers have similar speech F0, dialect, and age range, and they utter the same material. Sets of voice line-ups were elaborated each containing 10 male voices (1 target “familiar” voice and 9 “filler” voices). In each set,...

This study investigates nasal murmur in preconsonantal environments across Portuguese varieties from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. We analyzed cross-syllable tokens of the type nasal vowel (Vn) + stop (Cs) or fricative (Cf) to: compare the presence or absence of nasal murmur (N) across pan Lusophone varieties, and examine the acoustic length of N, alone and as a proportion of the tota...

Nasal coarticulation has been shown to vary systematically in words depending on the number of phonological neighbors: words with many neighbors are produced with a greater degree of vowel nasality than words with fewer phonological neighbors [9]. This study examines the effect of this systematic low-level variation on lexical perception. The degree of nasality in natural real and nonsense word...