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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"consonant"”.
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Consonant (De)gradation in Ingrian?
<p>This paper will present a dual method toward data enrichment for low-resource languages. Using Yoyodyne -- a Fairseq-inspired neural library for small-vocabulary sequence-to-sequence generation -- a morphological generation task was tested across labeled data encompassing multiple stages of …
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Statistical satructure of consonant clusters
Thesis (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics, 1956.
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Transients at stop-consonant releases
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
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Consonant landmark detection for speech recognition
… speech signal, which constitute landmarks for consonant sounds. Because a large amount of phonetic information is concentrated near acoustic discontinuities, more focused speech analysis and recognition can be performed based on the landmarks. Three types of consonant landmarks are defined …
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Consonant recognition by humans and machines
… Markov Models (HMMs) are compared to humans on a consonant recognition task using Consonant Vowel- Consonant (CVC) nonsense syllables degraded by highpass filtering, lowpass filtering, or additive noise. Confusion matrices were determined by recognizing the syllabies using different ASR front …
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Gestural overlap of stop-consonant sequences
… articulators in the production of English stop-consonant sequences. Recorded utterances containing stop-consonant sequences were analyzed acoustically, with focus on formant movements, closure durations, release bursts, and spectrum shape at low frequencies. The results of the acoustic analysis …
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Consonant cluster phonotactics : a perceptual approach
… processes conditioned or constrained by the consonantal environment, essentially consonant deletion, vowel epenthesis and vowel deletion. It is argued that the standard generative approach to these processes, which relies on the syllable and the principle of prosodic licensing, is empirically …
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Classification of stop consonant place of articulation
… the place of articulation features for stop consonant segments. The acoustic attributes are selected so that they capture the information relevant to place identification, including amplitude and energy of release bursts, formant movements of adjacent vowels, spectra of noises after the …
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Integration of phonological information in obstruent consonant identification
… (e.g., spectral and temporal properties of stop consonants in voicing contrasts). Many fewer studies have addressed relationships between phonological dimensions. Most such studies have focused on the perception of sequences of phones (e.g., 'bid', 'bed', 'bit', 'bet'), though some have focused …
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Tactual display of consonant voicing to supplement lipreading
… on the envelope signals of a set of 16 initial consonants represented through multiple tokens of C₁VC₂ syllables indicate that the onset-timing difference between the low- and high-frequency envelopes (EOA: envelope-onset asynchrony) provides a reliable and robust cue for distinguishing voiced …
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Stop consonant production : an articulation and acoustic study
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Acoustic models of consonant recognition in cochlear implant users
… adults have no difficulty in recognising consonants accurately, even in moderately adverse listening conditions. By contrast, users of multichannel cochlear implants have difficulty with the accurate perception of consonants, even in good listening conditions. Cochlear implant users are …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
This thesis is a study of synchronic consonant insertions in Amfo'an, a variety of Meto (Austronesian) spoken in Western Timor. Amfo'an attests synchronic consonant insertion in two environments: before vowel-initial enclitics and to mark the right edge of the noun phrase. This constitutes two …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
This thesis is a study of synchronic consonant insertions in Amfo'an, a variety of Meto (Austronesian) spoken in Western Timor. Amfo'an attests synchronic consonant insertion in two environments: before vowel-initial enclitics and to mark the right edge of the noun phrase. This constitutes two …
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Techniques for understanding hearing-impaired perception of consonant cues
We examine the cues used for consonant perception and the systematic behavior of normal and hearing-impaired listeners. All stimuli were presented as isolated consonant-vowel tokens, using the vowel /A/. Use of low-context stimuli, such as consonants, aids in minimizing the influence of some …
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A theory of consonant cluster perception and vowel epenthesis
… the relative perceptual similarity between consonant clusters and the corresponding epenthesis forms, which in turn plays an important role in determining the site of epenthesis in loanword adaptation. This dissertation provides an extended typology of vowel epenthesis sites in consonant …
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An experimental study of consonant gemination in Iraqi colloquial Arabic
… distinctions between long, double and geminate consonants are clarified. Theoretical and experimental studies on gemination in languages other than Arabic are also reviewed. Part Two is the experimental part of this study. It comprises five chapters. Chapter Three is an initial investigation …
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Voice onset time variation in stop consonant to vowel transitions
… by minimizing vocalization is tested by stop consonant "P,, to vowel transitions. The data suggest that speech duration is dependent on voice onset time (VOT) variation among the participants. This study could serve as a basis to encourage further research analyzing neuromotor and …
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The Consonant/Vowel Distinction: A Cognitive Difference Evidenced by Glides
The consonant/vowel distinction is surprisingly poorly understood. Consonants and vowels are often distinguished either by constriction degree or syllable position, but neither of these is exceptionless. This dissertation presents a new account of the distinction: the Domain Prioritization …
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