the absolute hegemony of international code of (academic) communication has resulted in the development and spread of the discoursal voice of the culture form which historical english has emerged, and, as a consequence, any violation from the generic conventions and thinking patterns born out of such a discourse has resulted in the deprivation of non-native thinkers form active participation in...

Slope and y-intercepts of locus equations have previously been shown to successfully classify place of articulation for English voiced stop consonants when derived from measurements at vowel onset and vowel midpoint. However, listeners are capable of identifying English voiced stops when less than 30 ms of vowel is presented. The present results show that modified locus equation measurements ma...

In statistical parametric speech synthesis, creaky voice can cause disturbing artifacts. The reason is that standard pitch tracking algorithms tend to erroneously measure F0 in regions of creaky voice. This pattern is learned during training of hidden Markov-models (HMMs). In the synthesis phase, false voiced / unvoiced decision caused by creaky voice results in audible quality degradation. In ...

The absolute hegemony of international code of (academic) communication has resulted in the development and spread of the discoursal voice of the culture form which historical English has emerged, and, as a consequence, any violation from the generic conventions and thinking patterns born out of such a discourse has resulted in the deprivation of non-native thinkers form active participation in...

Perception and production of English cues to plosive voicing by native Mandarin speakers" (2013). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 429. Abstract The acquisition of non-native sounds is a prominent feature of second language acquisition. Mandarin does not permit the voiced plosives /b d g/ or plosives in the syllable coda position, both features of many English words. This disparity presents a...

A common type of stop is voiceless and unaspirated, sometimes contrasting with a voiced one. In English this is true in certain contexts, but utterance-initially the two types vary freely, both heard as voiced by phonetically naïve native speakers, though linguists sometimes describe the first as "devoiced" and/or the second as “prevoiced.” Moreover, wherever a voiceless inaspirate context is e...

Many languages exhibit a voicing distinction with two series of stops, voiced and voiceless, which differ primarily in the relative timing between the consonantal release and the onset of laryngeal vibration, known as voice onset time (VOT) (Lisker and Abramson, 1964). While the exact implementation of VOT for the voicing contrast differs among languages, long lag VOTs, with a long delay betwee...

This study investigates consonant-related F0 perturbations ("CF0") in French and Italian by comparing the effects of voiced and voiceless obstruents on F0 to those of voiced sonorants. The voiceless obstruents /p f/ in both languages are found to have F0-raising properties similar to American English voiceless obstruents, while F0 following the (pre)voiced obstruents /b v/ in French and Italian...

The present study reports a speech production experiment on children who are enrolled in a Francophone K-12 school in Southern Alberta, Canada, a predominantly English-speaking region. Students from grades 1, 3, and 5 were asked to produce a series of French words beginning with one of the six stop consonants (voiced /b/, /d/, & /g/; voiceless /p/, /t/, & /k/). Results revealed no agerelated di...