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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"fricative"”.
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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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Fricative Vowels in Changzhou Wu: An Acoustic and Articulatory Study
Fricative vowels have been recognized as sounds with both vowel-like and consonant-like features, highlighting their typological scarcity. Taking Changzhou Wu as a case study, this thesis investigates the phonetic and phonological aspects of fricative vowels, particularly coronal fricative vowels. …
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The Effect of a Lingual Magnet on Fricative Production: An Acoustic Evaluation of Placement and Adaptation
… condition and the word position of the target fricative. In addition, significant changes in spectral mean were found for /s/ and "sh" as a result of magnet position. Although results from the present study indicated that there were some acoustic changes in fricative productions with a marker …
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An Experimental Evaluation of Stop-Plosive and Fricative Consonant Intelligibility by Tracheoesophageal Speakers in Quiet and Noise
… perceptual study investigated stop-plosive and fricative intelligibility of TE speech in quiet and in the presence of multi-talker noise. Eighteen listeners evaluated monosyllabic consonant-vowel-consonant words produced by 14 TE speakers using an open-response paradigm. Our findings indicate …
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An acoustical study of fricatives in the speech of dysarthric speakers
… neuro motor dysfunctions in production of the fricative /s/ have been devised and are presented. These parameters specify the spectrum shape and relative amplitude of the fricative noise, the presence or absence of voicing, and the time variation of the spectrum preceding, during, and following …
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The stop-like modification of /ð/ : a case study in the analysis and handling of speech variation
… the stop-like modification of the dental fricative /ð/. This variant exhibits a drastic change from the canonical /ð/; the manner of production is changed from one that is fricative to one that is stop-like. Furthermore, the place of articulation of stop-like /0/ has been a point of …
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Some studies of frictional properties of fabrics
The frictional (fricative) properties of some 23 fabrics are reported. These properties include frictional resistance, amplitude of resistance, number of peaks, difference between static and kinetic frictional resistance in addition to coefficients of friction, all determined by trace analysis. …
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Constraints on phonological statistical learning in adults
… manner of articulation (plosive, nasal, fricative) and non-adjacent pairings of consonants were controlled so each language contained three concurrent types of statistical information: the single-feature bias (most codas were voiced), the multiple-feature bias (most codas for one manner …
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Variation in Raga - a quantitative and qualitative study of the language of North Pentecost, Vanuatu.
… (lexical); and deletion of the phonemic velar fricative (phonological). Quantitative analysis has confirmed intergenerational and intergender variation for the lexical and phonological variables. In a corpus demonstrating an overall low rate of borrowing (1.6%), the findings show that women and …
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Variation in Raga - a quantitative and qualitative study of the language of North Pentecost, Vanuatu.
… (lexical); and deletion of the phonemic velar fricative (phonological). Quantitative analysis has confirmed intergenerational and intergender variation for the lexical and phonological variables. In a corpus demonstrating an overall low rate of borrowing (1.6%), the findings show that women and …
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Patterns of anticipatory coarticulation in adults and typically developing children
… with greater differences being evident in a fricative context and less when followed by a stop consonant.
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Automatic Detection of Landmark Acoustic Cues in Human Speech
… and releases in the oral region (e.g., nasal, fricative, and stop consonants). A complete landmark detection system is a key step towards an overarching speech analysis system that relies on lexical acoustic cues, as landmarks guide the identification of other acoustic cues in speech. In the …
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Concatenative speech synthesis: a Framework for Reducing Perceived Distortion when using the TD-PSOLA Algorithm
… was developed for highly problematic voiced fricative phonemes to minimise the occurrence of perceived distortion in these segments. The success of the framework, in terms of generating synthetic speech with reduced distortion, was evaluated. A listening test showed that the TD-PSOLA balanced …
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The Sociolinguistic Correlates of Dialect Contact and Koineisation in Medini Arabic: Lenition and Resyllabification
… a traditional affricate [ʤ] and an innovative fricative [ʒ]. The second linguistic variable is resyllabification, which is precipitated by syncope or epenthesis. The innovative variant for the urban group is syncope whereas for the Bedouin group it is epenthesis. Overall, the results indicate …
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A sociolinguistic study of the Tihami Qahtani dialect in Asir, Southern Arabia
… The incoming variants, emphatic interdental fricative [ðˤ] for (ḍād) and l-article for m-article, are koine forms. In the case of ḍād, the quantitative analysis shows that it is undergoing change towards [ðˤ]. This change is led by younger women in both communities, while men in general and …
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Respiratory constraints on speech production at prosodic boundaries
… 8Pp1 for utterances initiated with a voiceless fricative. Phonation termination results from an approximately 3-fold increase in glottal area and a J-3 cm H20 fall in pressure. Irregular fundamental frequency (FO) at the end of voicing, in many cases, does not fit the classical definition of …
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Speech in space and time: Contact, change and diffusion in medieval Norway
… /hv/ > /kv/ and the loss of the voiceless dental fricative. A further three look at simplifying morphological changes: the loss of 1.sg. verbal agreement, the loss of lexical genitives and the loss of 1.pl. verbal agreement. In each case study a large dataset from many documents is collected and …
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A linguistic analysis of Mbunda.
… few Bantu languages with the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ as in the English word „thing‟. The study also reveals that tone and vowel length can mark distinction in terms of word meaning. The common syllable types in Mbunda are V, CV, CSV and SV. Morphologically, the study shows that Mbunda …
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A linguistic analysis of Mbunda.
… few Bantu languages with the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ as in the English word „thing‟. The study also reveals that tone and vowel length can mark distinction in terms of word meaning. The common syllable types in Mbunda are V, CV, CSV and SV. Morphologically, the study shows that Mbunda …
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