A basic constituent of French intonation is the Accentual Phrase (AP), which includes two distinct tonal events: a final LH* accentual rise and an initial LHi rise. A previous study had shown a difference between the rising movements according to the the position of the AP within the intonational phrase (IP): prenuclear (P, IP-initial) versus nuclear (N, IPfinal). The present paper explains thi...

Electroglottographic and acoustic data for Catalan three-consonant clusters composed of a wordand syllable-final C1C2 sequence and an underlyingly voiced C3 in wordand syllable-initial position were collected in order to verify whether a regressive voicing assimilation process operates on all obstruents placed at the C2 and C1 sites. Data reveal the presence of low percentages of vocal fold vib...

One aim of the research project “Prosodic coding and decoding of words in fluent speech: a cross-language investigation between Swedish, Greek and French (ProCoF)” is to investigate the syllable from a phonological and phonetic point of view. Due to the differing opinions about the rules for syllabification in Swedish, a methodological study has been carried out in order to shed light on the co...

Consonant-Vowel (CV) construction is the most frequent syllable in Bangla. The present study examine the acoustic properties of Bangla four labial stop consonants [p, ph, b and bh] in the initial position in a consonant-vowel context with seven following vowels /ɔ, a, e, æ, i, u, o/. Bangla is a type of language that uses aspiration as an addition feature to distinguish phoneme. Bangla labial s...

Consonants and vowels differ acoustically and articulatorily, but also functionally: Consonants are more relevant for lexical processing, and vowels for prosodic/syntactic processing. These functional biases could be powerful bootstrapping mechanisms for learning language, but their developmental origin remains unclear. The relative importance of consonants and vowels at the onset of lexical ac...

Detection of vowel onset points (VOPs) is important for spotting subword units in continuous speech. For consonant-vowel (CV) utterances, VOP is the instant at which the consonant part ends and the vowel part begins. Accurate detection of VOPs is important for recognition of CV units in continuous speech. In this paper, we propose an approach for detection of VOPs using autoassociative neural n...

Are there temporal constraints on speech timing? Some have argued against them (Chomsky and Halle, 1968; van Santen, 1996) while others have claimed, for example, that languages come in two possible rhythm types, stressed-timed and syllable-timed (Abercrombie, 1967; Pike, 1943). We prefer to avoid for the moment, the question of a typology of rhythm types. Instead we will focus on styles of spe...

This paper addresses a question concerning phonological operations involved standard Farsi vowel Compensatory Lengthening (CL) due to glottal consonant deletion in syllabic coda. Specifically, I question two current views related to CL process. One view suggests that glottal allophonic weakening is compensated by vowel lengthening. Another view suggests that glottal consonant is deleted, but va...