This is an acoustic study of prosodic effects on segmental durations with reference to syllable structure, stress, focus and tempo in Greek. Disyllabic nonsense words with one, or two, or three consonants in the initial syllable were examined in stressed/unstressed, focused/unfocused and normal/fast tempo productions in a carrier sentence contexts. The results indicate that: (1) syllabic onset ...

A familiar phonotactic constraint in Arabic limits monosyllabic words to CVVC and CVCC syllable type, where VV and CC are long segmentso In this study, we are interested in learning, first, whether vowel length difference serves as a perceptual cue of the length difference between short (single) and long (geminate) consonantso Second, if consonant length difference cues vowel length differenceo...

In 1913, Anton Pfalz described a specific relation of vowel and consonant sequences for East Middle Bavarian dialects, located in the eastern parts of Austria. According to his observations, a long vowel is always followed by a lenis consonant, and a short vowel is always followed by a fortis consonant. Consequently, vowel duration depends on the quality of the following consonant. Phonetic exa...

This research explores the representation and access of lexical form during spoken word recognition. Two experiments were conducted examining segmental priming effects. In the first set of experiments, a single fricative segment functioned as a prime to targets with either a matching or mismatching fricative in initial (Experiment 1a) or final (Experiment 1b) position. In the second set of expe...

This work presents a reanalysis of the duration compensation issue at the VC level, for which vowel duration is lengthened when replacing a following (long) voiceless consonant with a (short) voiced consonant. Analyses of fifteen Brazilian Portuguese words and pseudo-words reveal that (1) duration compensation is not restricted to consonants differing in voicing only, (2) duration compensation ...

In this paper we examine the phonotactics of consonant clusters in Moenat Ladin terms their markedness and temporal coordination. word-initial include sibilant-stop (SC), stop-/r/ (Cr), stop-/l/ (Cl), sibilant-stop-/r/ (SCr). However, despite SC Cl sequences being well-formed Moenat, sibilant-stop-/l/ (SCl) are almost entirely unattested. We hypothesize that rarity SCl owes to a cumulative effe...

Although studies of speech perception often focus on the interpretation of the acoustic speech waveform, in many situations the face of the talker can be seen by the listener and the perception of facial actions can greatly influence the interpretation of this signal. When the acoustic signal is unclear, observed facial actions can improve intelligibility [14]. On the other hand, even when the ...

BACKGROUND Individuals with acquired phonological dyslexia experience difficulty associating written letters with corresponding sounds, especially in pseudowords. Previous studies have shown that reading can be improved in these individuals by training letter-sound correspondence, practicing phonological skills, or using combined approaches. However, generalization to untrained items is typical...

The most common complaint of older hearing impaired (OHI) listeners is difficulty understanding speech in the presence of noise. However, tests of consonant-identification and sentence reception threshold (SeRT) provide different perspectives on the magnitude of impairment. Here we quantified speech perception difficulties in 24 OHI listeners in unaided and aided conditions by analyzing (1) con...