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On the acoustic cues of unreleased stops

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1 Published in 2017 at "Journal of the Acoustical Society of America"

DOI: 10.1121/1.4987619

Abstract: Unreleased stops, lacking a burst, have been claimed to have low perceptibility and are more likely to neutralize place contrasts. While this proposition has been supported by examining no-burst VC fragments spliced from released stops,… read more here.

Keywords: unreleased stops; cues unreleased; acoustic cues;

Identifying the distinctive acoustic cues of Mandarin tones

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1 Published in 2018 at "Journal of the Acoustical Society of America"

DOI: 10.1121/1.5067655

Abstract: Using mathematical modeling, this study aims to characterize distinctive acoustic features of Mandarin tones based on a corpus of 1013 monosyllabic words produced by 21 native Mandarin speakers. For each tone, 22 acoustic cues were… read more here.

Keywords: distinctive acoustic; parabola; tone; model ... See more keywords

The f0 perturbation effects in focus marking: Evidence from Korean and Japanese

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3 Published in 2023 at "PLOS ONE"

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283139

Abstract: Many studies showed that prosodic cues such as f0, duration and intensity are used in focus marking cross-linguistically. Usually, on-focus words exhibit expansions of acoustic cues such as f0 expansion, whereas post-focus words may show… read more here.

Keywords: focus marking; effects focus; acoustic cues; perturbation effects ... See more keywords

Native Listeners’ Use of Information in Parsing Ambiguous Casual Speech

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1 Published in 2022 at "Brain Sciences"

DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12070930

Abstract: In conversational speech, phones and entire syllables are often missing. This can make “he’s” and “he was” homophonous, realized for example as [ɨz]. Similarly, “you’re” and “you were” can both be realized as [jɚ], [ɨ],… read more here.

Keywords: information; speech; use information; acoustic cues ... See more keywords