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The aerodynamic puzzle of nasalized fricatives: Aerodynamic and perceptual evidence from Scottish Gaelic Open
Scottish Gaelic is sometimes described as having nasalized fricatives (/ṽ/ distinctively, and [f̃, x̃, h̃], etc. through assimilation). However, there are claims that it is not aerodynamically possible to open the velum for nasalization while…
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On the acoustical features of vowel nasality in English and French Open
Although much is known about the linguistic function of vowel nasality, whether contrastive (as in French) or coarticulatory (as in English), and much effort has gone into identifying potential correlates for the phenomenon, this study exa…
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Increased language co-activation leads to enhanced cross-linguistic phonetic convergence Open
Purpose: This study investigates the effects of bilingual language modes (or settings) on the speech production patterns of a group of early Catalan/Spanish bilinguals from Majorca, Spain. Our main research question was as follows: are bil…
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Stress Effects in Vowel Perception as a Function of Language-Specific Vocabulary Patterns Open
Background/Aims: Evidence from spoken word recognition suggests that for English listeners, distinguishing full versus reduced vowels is important, but discerning stress differences involving the same full vowel (as in mu- from music or mu…
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Perceptual distinctiveness between dental and palatal sibilants in different vowel contexts and its implications for phonological contrasts Open
Mandarin Chinese has dental, palatal, and retroflex sibilants, but their contrasts before [_i] are avoided: The palatals appear before [i] while the dentals and retroflexes appear before homorganic syllabic approximants (a.k.a. apical vowe…
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Focus and boundary effects on coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Korean with implications for cross-linguistic similarities and differences Open
This study investigates focus and boundary effects on Korean nasal consonants and vowel nasalization. Under focus, nasal consonants lengthen in CVN# but shorten in #NVC, enhancing [nasal] vs [oral]. Vowels resist nasalization under focus, …
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Detection of hypernasality based on vowel space area Open
This study proposes a method for differentiating hypernasal-speech from normal speech using the vowel space area (VSA). Hypernasality introduces extra formant and anti-formant pairs in vowel spectrum, which results in shifting of formants.…
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Acoustic investigation of anticipatory vowel nasalization in a Caribbean and a non-Caribbean dialect of Spanish Open
Spanish dialectology observes that dialects with a preference for velarized variants of /n/ (e.g. Caribbean dialects) include nasalized vocalic allophones in their inventory. Instrumental cross-dialectal comparisons of Spanish anticipatory…
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A practical method of estimating the time-varying degree of vowel nasalization from acoustic features Open
This paper presents a simple and easy-to-use method of creating a time-varying signal of the degree of nasalization in vowels, generated from acoustic features measured in oral and nasalized vowel contexts. The method is presented for sepa…
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Using naïve listener imitations of native speaker productions to investigate mechanisms of listener-based sound change Open
This study was designed to test whether listener-based sound change-listener misperception (Ohala, 1981, 1993) and perceptual cue re-weighting (Beddor, 2009, 2012)-can be observed synchronically in a laboratory setting. Co-registered artic…
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Nasal coarticulation in Bininj Kunwok: An aerodynamic analysis Open
Bininj Kunwok (BKw), a language spoken in Northern Australia, restricts the degree of anticipatory nasalization, as suggested by previous aerodynamic and acoustic analyses (Butcher 1999). The current study uses aerodynamic measurements of …
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Production of the utterance-final moraic nasal in Japanese: A real-time MRI study Open
Japanese moraic nasal /N/ is a nasal segment having the status of an independent mora. In utterance-medial position, it is realized as a nasal segment sharing the same place of articulation as the immediately following segment, but in utte…
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An acoustic phonetic description of Nungon vowels Open
This study is a comprehensive acoustic description and analysis of the six vowels /i e a u o ɔ/ in the Towet dialect of the Papuan language Nungon ⟨yuw⟩ of northeastern Papua New Guinea. Vowel tokens were extracted from a corpus of audio s…
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Prosodic structurally conditioned variation of coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Mandarin Chinese: Its language specificity and cross-linguistic generalizability Open
This study compares prosodic structural effects on nasal (N) duration and coarticulatory vowel (V) nasalization in NV (Nasal-Vowel) and CVN (Consonant-Vowel-Nasal) sequences in Mandarin Chinese with those found in English and Korean. Focus…
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Phonetic imitation of multidimensional acoustic variation of the nasal split short-a system Open
The current study investigates phonetic imitation of multiple acoustic features of pre-nasal /æ/ in California English. There is a great deal of cross-speaker heterogeneity: Many speakers show a raised /æN/ variant, in tandem with a backin…
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The Realization of English Vowels by Kuwaiti Speakers Open
Learning to speak a language does not necessarily mean learning to realize all the phonemes of that language. When a sound does not exist in a speakers’ mother tongue, s/he tends to use a phonotactic; hence, either replacing the sound with…
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L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese Open
Feature-based approaches to acquisition principally focus on second language (L2) learners’ ability to perceive non-native consonants when the features required are either contrastively present or entirely absent from the first language (L…
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Gender Errors in French Interlanguage Open
Many studies on gender assignment in French have focused on the effect of the final morpheme of the noun on the identification of the gender of the noun and the subsequent agreement with any determiners. The present study considers the eff…
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(Final) Nasalization as an Alternative to (Final) Devoicing: The Case of Vimeu Picard Open
The Vimeu variety of Picard (VP), spoken in northern France, exhibits stop~nasal alternations as in reponne 'to answer' vs repondu 'answered.' We attribute the nasalization of voiced stops in VP to a constraint against voiced obstruents, a…
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Vowel Nasalization in the Hulu Pahang Dialect Open
Makalah ini membincangkan gejala penasalan vokal dialek Melayu Hulu Pahang dengan tumpuan khusus kepada subdialek Budu. Penumpuan ini dilakukan disebabkan gejala penasalan vokal dalam subdialek tersebut sangat unik berbanding dengan subdia…
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Spoken word recognition in a second language: The importance of phonetic details Open
Spoken word recognition depends on variations in fine-grained phonetics as listeners decode speech. However, many models of second language (L2) speech perception focus on units such as isolated syllables, and not on words. In two eye-trac…
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On covariation between nasal consonant weakening and anticipatory vowel nasalization: Evidence from a Caribbean and a non-Caribbean dialect of Spanish Open
Dialects of Spanish can be (broadly) categorized as ‘preferring’ a coronal or a velar realization for the word-final nasal consonant ([n]- and [ŋ] -dialects, respectively). Scholars have observed that the phonetic and phonological details …
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Perceptual identification of oral and nasalized vowels across American English and British English listeners and TTS voices Open
Nasal coarticulation is when the lowering of the velum for a nasal consonant co-occurs with the production of an adjacent vowel, causing the vowel to become (at least partially) nasalized. In the case of anticipatory nasal coarticulation, …
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Partial perceptual compensation for nasal coarticulation is robust to fundamental frequency variation Open
Listeners show better-than-chance discrimination of nasalized and oral vowels occurring in appropriate consonantal contexts. Yet, the methods for investigating partial perceptual compensation for nasal coarticulation often include nasal an…
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Lexical competition influences coarticulatory variation in French: comparing competition from nasal and oral vowel minimal pairs Open
It is hypothesized that the phonological status of a phonetic feature across languages predicts patterns of coarticulatory variation. In French, vowel nasality encodes lexical contrast, e.g. cède /sɛd/ vs. saint /sɛ̃/. Vowel nasality also o…
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An investigation of the dynamics of vowel nasalization in Arabana using machine learning of acoustic features Open
This paper presents exploratory research on temporally dynamic patterns of vowel nasalization from two speakers of Arabana. To derive a dynamic measure of nasality, we use gradient tree boosting algorithms to statistically learn the mappin…
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Perceptual Compensation of Vowel Nasality in Brazilian Portuguese Open
This study explores the nature of the oral-nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). While vowel nasality is a salient property in the language, scholars differ on whether this property forms the basis of a phonological contrast. …
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Spoken Word Recognition in Native and Second Language Canadian French: Phonetic Detail and Representation of Vowel Nasalization Open
Research has shown that fine-grained consonantal phonetic information can be gradiently integrated during spoken word recognition in the L1. However, the way listeners categorize vocalic phonetic information has not been investigated as th…
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The Effects of Language Contact on Non-Native Vowel Sequences in Lexical Borrowings: The Case of Media Lengua Open
Media Lengua (ML), a mixed language derived from Quichua and Spanish, exhibits a phonological system that largely conforms to that of Quichua acoustically. Yet, it incorporates a large number of vowel sequences from Spanish which do not oc…
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Nasal/Oral Vowel Perception in French-Speaking Children With Cochlear Implants and Children With Typical Hearing Open
Purpose: The present study investigates the perception of vowel nasality in French-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs; CI group) and children with typical hearing (TH; TH group) aged 4–12 years. By investigating the vocalic nasa…