Phonology provides a system by which a limited number of types of phonetic variation can signal communicative intentions at multiple levels of linguistic analysis. Because phonologies vary from language to language, acquiring the phonology of a language demands learning to attribute phonetic variation appropriately. Here, we studied the case of pitch-contour variation. In English, pitch contour...

1. Phonetic considerations in phonological research Phonology is concerned with characterizing the sound patterns of language, typically presented in terms of a system of contrastive sound elements (e.g., syllables, segments, features) and the distribution of those sounds in the makeup of phonological words and phrases. This focus on the sound system and the characteristic patterns that arise w...

A large sized Japanese speech database at ATR(JSDB-ATR) is introduced. Thesespeech data are transcribed in multiple ways using acoustic-phonetic symbols for various data access requests and for the convenience of fine acoustic-phonetic analysis. For multiple transcription, three types of categories are considered: linguistic and phonemic categories, acoustic event categories and some alophonic ...

Lexical effects on phonetic categorisation have been taken as evidence that the listener's word knowledge inßuences phonetic processing during normal speech perception. Tbe present study examined word-nonword effects in the categorisation of word-initial and wordfinal stop consonants. Natural speech was edited to produce bilabial, alveolar and velar voicing continua. Tbe data revealed a signifi...

Phonological patterns often have phonetic bases. But whether phonetic substance should be encoded in synchronic phonological grammar is controversial. We aim to test the synchronic relevance of phonetics by investigating native Mandarin speakers’ applications of two exceptionless tone sandhi processes to novel words: the contour reduction 213E21/_T (Tl213), which has a clear phonetic motivation...

When listening to speech in everyday-life situations, our cognitive system must often cope with signal instabilities such as sudden breaks, mispronunciations, interfering noises or reverberations potentially causing disruptions at the acoustic/phonetic interface and preventing efficient lexical access and semantic integration. The physiological mechanisms allowing listeners to react instantaneo...

We propose a new approach for performing phonetic transcription of text that utilizes automatic speech recognition (ASR) to help traditional grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) techniques. This approach was applied to transcribe Chinese text into Taiwanese phonetic symbols. By augmenting the text with speech and using automatic speech recognition with a sausage searching net constructed from multiple pro...

In this article, we present a novel forensic speaker recognition system that provides the capability to perform comparisons using both ‘traditional’ forensic phonetic parameters and ‘automatic’ spectral features in a semior fully automatic way. We evaluate this approach with simulated and real forensic case data in German, which ranges from high quality laboratory audio data to real telephone i...

This paper aims to develop a methodology for forming communication skills (specifically phonetic skills) through virtual learning environment involving online platforms, tools, and mobile applications, which determines the relevance timeliness of study. The authors present their experience effective use modern resources applications in first-year students studying German as first second foreign...