Magnetic resonance images of the vocal tract during sustained production of the fricatives/s, •, f, 0, z, 3, v, 6/by four subjects are analyzed. Measurements ofvocal-tract lengths and area functions, and morphological analyses of the vocal tract and tongue shapes for these sounds are presented. Interspeaker differences in area functions are found to be greater in the pharyngeal cavity than in t...

Aging often affects sensitivity to the higher frequencies, which results in the loss of sensitivity to phonetic detail in speech. Hearing loss may therefore interfere with the categorisation of two consonants that have most information to differentiate between them in those higher frequencies and less in the lower frequencies, e.g., /f/ and /s/. We investigate two acoustic cues, i.e., formant t...

This study investigates the correlations between phonetic, perceptual and auditory spaces of fricatives. These spatial representations are constructed from estimated distances between fricatives in each domain. The present work is an extension of previous studies with vowels, which showed a close association between the auditory and perceptual spaces. The dimensions obtained were highly related...

English has assumed a new role in international communication in recent decades, that is, as a Lingua Franca (ELF) among speakers with different first languages. This study attempts to investigate and analyze Chinese university students’ perception and production of paired English fricatives from the perspective of ELF. By using a listening discrimination task and a reading task, respectively, ...

This paper is an articulatory and acoustical analysis of the syllable-initial sibilants and approximant in Beijing Mandarin. Palatograms and linguagrams were obtained from young adult native speakers of Beijing, male and female, using the direct method. Results show that the initial consonants which are transcribed in earlier studies [3, 4, 10] as retroflexes [§, t§, 1⁄2( ̈)] are in fact apical ...

Abstract The present contribution discusses the phonological reality of initial fricative h- in words Germanic and French origin dialectally identified 106 texts from Innsbruck Corpus Middle English Prose (Markus 2008), with focus on native where is frequently mute, as confirmed by (a) h -less spellings like ouse for house or especially (b) use article an before -nouns. In early a phrase may te...

Throughout the history of telecommunication, speech has rarely been transmitted with its full analog bandwidth (0 to 8 kHz or more) due to limitations in channel bandwidth. This impaired legacy continues with tactical voice communication. The passband of a voice terminal is typically 0 to 4 kHz. Hence, high-frequency speech components (4 to 8 kHz) are removed prior to transmission. As a result,...

This paper reports electroglottographic (EGG) data for consonant sequences composed of a word final stop or fricative followed by a voiced consonant produced by eight speakers of a Romance language, i.e., Catalan, where these clusters undergo regressive voicing assimilation. Analysis results reveal considerable speakerand consonant-dependent differences in the temporal period of vocal fold vibr...

This paper studies alliteration and rhyme in the traditional Kakataibo chants of Emilio Estrella Logía, one most important sabios present era. For rhyme, consonants which are able to be coda position according syllable structure play a central role. Alliteration is sporadic based on repetition fricative passages indeterminate length. It occurs onset freely within line across lines, latter by ad...