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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"Consonants"”.
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Articulation of whispered alveolar consonants
… of whispered and normally-spoken alveolar consonants through the use of electropalatography (EPG). While whisper is a well-researched topic, most prior studies have been limited to glottal and acoustic examinations. This study aims to directly measure the articulatory changes speech …
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The acoustics of fricative consonants
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1985.
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Analysis and synthesis of fricative consonants
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants
<p>This study describes phonetic realizations of aspirated phonemes in Purepecha [pua] from Azajo. The distribution of aspiration in Purepecha is limited to roots, a small number of spatial suffixes, one argument structure changing suffix, and clitics. Aspiration is never contrastive for …
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"The Treatment of Consonants in the ""ambraser Heldenbuch"""
The orthography of the Early New High German period has occasionally been misinterpreted in the scholarship, and has consequently been described as being characterized by chaos, arbitrariness, and a proliferation of letters that has no phonological basis. This perceived chaos derives from attempts …
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Synthesis of nasal consonants : a theoretically based approach
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Non-Native Production of Arabic Pharyngeal and Pharyngealized Consonants
… of Arabic pharyngeal and pharyngealized consonants (/ħ, ʕ/ and /tˤ, sˤ, dˤ, ðˤ/, respectively). Central to this study is how English speakers’ proficiency in Arabic affects their ability to produce these sounds differently. In particular, it examines the effect of Arabic proficiency on …
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Word boundary detection using landmarks : a survey of consonants
… attributes in a broad set of American English consonants that would help in identifying their word positions in running speech. A database of sentences containing word pairs (e.g. "lay keys" vs. "lake ease" for /k/) of thirteen consonants (six stops, two affricates, three fricatives, and two …
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Acoustic and perceptual correlates of pharyngeal and uvular consonants
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1986.
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Spontaneous nasalization: An articulatory investigation of glottal consonants in Thai
… been found to emerge in contexts with glottal consonants, low vowels, and transitionally breathy segments such as fricatives and aspirates. Blevins and Garrett (1992) classified these contexts as rhinoglottophilia ‘nose-larynx-affinity’, rhinochthamalophilia ‘nose-low/flat-affinity’, and …
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Acoustical study of the development of stop consonants in children
… study focuses on the acoustic patterns of stop consonants and adjacent vowels as they develop in young children (ages 2;6-3;3) over a six month period. Speech is generated using a series of articulatory, laryngeal, and respiratory gestures that children must learn to reproduce. As a child's …
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Investigating the differing role of consonants and vowels in word processing
… and Mehler (2003), there is an asymmetry between consonants and vowels in language processing, with consonants being more involved at the lexical level, and vowels serving as preferential cues for grammar and prosody. The privileged role of consonants during lexical access has been demonstrated in …
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Correspondence Patterns and Perceptual Distance of Consonants Between Southern Min and Cantonese
… on the cross-dialect perception of initial consonants between Cantonese and Southern Min. An overall study of Chinese dialects and a more in-depth study of Cantonese and Southern Min are presented first in this dissertation. Following are the empirical studies including how Cantonese …
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An acoustic analysis of labialization of coronal nasal consonants in American English
… speech, in which word-final coronal nasal consonants undergo place assimilation toward following word-initial labial consonants. Formant frequency measurements were taken from words ending with coronal nasal consonants in potentially assimilating sentence contexts, and identical words …
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Assessing the production of liquid consonants by English-Spanish bilinguals in the Midwest
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Acoustic and perceptual assessment of stop consonants produced by normal and dysarthric speakers
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard--Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2000.
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The voice-bar after closure of coda consonants in the speech of young children
… voice-bars after the closure of voiceless coda consonants in consonant-final words from early child speech is not consistent with the idea that voice-bars are important for distinguishing voiced consonants from voiceless consonants. This study examined this potential deviation from the adult …
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Determining articulator configuration in voiced stop consonants by matching time-domain patterns in pitch periods
… for categorizing the English voiced stops as the consonants B, D, or G based on the vocalic portions of their releases. The classification recognizes 93.5%, 81.8% and 86.1% of the b, d and g to ae transitions with false positive rates 2.9%, 8.7% and 2.6% respectively.
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Effects of Aging and Spectral Shaping on the Sub-cortical (Brainstem) Differentiation of Contrastive Stop Consonants
… (brainstem) differentiation of voiced stop consonants (i.e. /b-d-g/); (2) determine whether potential aging deficits at the brainstem level influence behavioral identification of the /b-d-g/ stimuli, (3) investigate whether spectral shaping diminishes any aging impairments at the brainstem …
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