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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"vowel duration"”.
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Consonantal voicing effects on vowel duration in Italian-English bilinguals
… in their characteristic time settings for vowel durations: durations are greater for vowels preceding voiced consonants, e.g., <em>cab</em>, rather than voiceless, e.g., <em>cap</em>. This duration difference, termed the consonantal voicing effect (CVE), is notably greater for English than …
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The Sensitive Period Hypothesis in L2 Production: /I/ Versus /I/ and Voicing-Dependent Vowel Duration in the English Speech Produced by Korean Speakers of English
… were assessed on their production of the English vowels /i/ and /I/ and voicing-dependent vowel duration.
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Lietuvių ir latvių tarmių monoftongų priegaidžių akustiniai požymiai: lyginamoji analizė /
… focuses on the acoustic base of long vowel tones in Lithuanian and Latvian dialects (the material under analysis comes from two dialect areas, namely the subdialects in the Telšiai in the northern Samogitia, and the central Latvia). The aim was to determine what acoustic features play …
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The Effect of Temporal Manipulation of Disfluency on the Perception of Stuttering
Results indicated that both factors (pause duration and vowel duration) affected listeners' perception. In general, repetitions with short vowel and pause durations were judged as more representative of stuttering, whereas repetitions with longer vowel and pause duration were judged as more …
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The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/
… short consonants preceded by short stressed vowels in the source language are borrowed as long in loanwords. It is generally considered to be an 'unnecessary' adaptation (Peperkamp, 2005), because it does not repair any illegal sequences in the native phonotactics of the borrowing languages. …
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An acoustic phonetic analysis of African American English: A comparative study of two dialects
… (NCS). I analyze these samples to determine if vowel quality and vowel duration are consistently and predictably varied between the two dialects. Labov's Chain Shift Principles are used as the context for the results.</p> <p>In my analysis, I find that both vowel quality and duration are …
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Prosodically Induced Acoustic Variation in English, Korean, and Hindi
… consonants and supralaryngeal contrasts among vowels, and the role of systemic and prosodic factors in governing such variation. These research goals are investigated with English, Korean, and Hindi CV sequences in utterance initial (U) or Intonational Phrase initial (IP) positions, U/IP-final …
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ESL speakers' production of English lexical stress: The effect of variation in acoustic correlates on perceived intelligibility and nativeness
… lexical stress in English, namely the relative durations of stressed and unstressed vowels and their relative intensities and fundamental frequency (F0) values. A set of three-syllable words, including cognates and non-cognates, was analyzed. The results from the production study were used to …
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The effects of lexical stress, intonational pitch accent, and speech rate on vowel quality in Catalan and Spanish
… languages tend to display stress-induced vowel quality variation. In some languages the effect is very salient, resulting in a smaller vowel inventory in unstressed syllables and stress-conditioned rule-governed vowel alternations within paradigms (phonological vowel reduction). Other …
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An experimental study of consonant gemination in Iraqi colloquial Arabic
… investigates the roles played by the segmental durations in the perception of single versus geminate consonants in I. C. Arabic. The theory of 'categorical perception' is then discussed in relation to our data. Chapter Five provides a palatographic evidence of the distinctions between geminate …