Based on EMA data, this study investigates timing and magnitude properties of lingual gestures involved in the production of European Portuguese /l/ in onset and coda positions. Syllable position effects were found: coordination pattern for syllable-initial /l/ is distinct from those observed for syllable-final /l/; the tongue dorsum is more retracted in the syllable-final /l/; /l/s in coda sho...

Prominence has been widely studied on the word level and the syllable level. An extensive study comparing the two approaches is missing in the literature. This study investigates how word and syllable prominence relate to each other in German. We find that perceptual ratings based on the word level are more extreme than those based on the syllable level. The correlations between word prominence...

A detailed analysis of a unique speech disturbance, marked by the frequent appearance in the speech stream of a meaningless intrusive syllable, is presented. Following a lengthy thoracic surgery, an American English speaking patient began to speak with non-English prosodic patterns, which evolved to a conspicuous intrusion in his speech of the syllable /sis/. This syllable and its variants were...

In a delayed naming task the effect of syllable frequency on the production time of syllables was investigated. Participants first heard either a lowor a high-frequency syllable and were then asked to repeat this syllable as often as they could for a time span of eight seconds. Mean production times per syllable were determined. When the segmental make-up of highand lowfrequency syllables was c...

It has been known that the syllable structures in Korean are different from those in English. The goal of this paper is to provide computational implementations for Korean syllable structures in the typed feature structure formalism. The system that we adopted in this paper is the Linguistic Knowledge Building system. We first implemented the type hierarchies and AVMs for segment and suprasegme...

The present paper conducts a pioneering study on the phonetic manifestation and influence of zero anaphora in Chinese reading texts. The stress degree of the boundary syllable and the duration of the pause at the anaphoric position are examined. The results show: i) the boundary syllable after zero anaphoric form is more accented; for the two types of zero anaphora concerned in this study, the ...