Language and Speech articles from September 2007

Language and Speech archives from September 2007

Connecting intonation labels to mathematical descriptions of fundamental frequency.(Report)
September 1, 2007... Abstract The mathematical models of intonation used in speech technology are often inaccessible to linguists. By the same token, phonological descriptions of intonation are rarely used by speech technologists, as they cannot be implemented...

Tongue kinematics during utterances elicited with the SLIP technique.(spoonerisms of laboratory induced predisposition)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Abstract In the past years, there have been an increasing number of instrumental investigations as to the nature of speech production errors, prompted by the concern that decades of transcription-based speech error data may be tainted by...

Tone features, tone perception, and peak alignment in Thai.(Report)
September 1, 2007... Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between the phonological features of tone and tone perception in Thai. Specifically, it tests the hypothesis (proposed by Moren & Zsiga, 2006) that the principle perceptual cues to the...

The effect of pitch peak alignment on sentence type identification in Russian.
September 1, 2007... Abstract This paper reports the results of an experimental phonetic study examining pitch peak alignment in production and perception of three-syllable one-word sentences with phonetic rising-falling pitch movement by speakers of Russian....

Structural influences on initial accent placement in French.(Report)
September 1, 2007... Abstract In addition to the phrase-final accent (FA), the French phonological system includes a phonetically distinct Initial Accent (IA). The present study tested two proposals: that IA marks the onset of phonological phrases, and that it...