Nasalization
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Prosodically-conditioned fine-tuning of coarticulatory vowel nasalization in English Open
This study explores the relationship between prosodic strengthening and linguistic contrasts in English by examining temporal realization of nasals (N-duration) in CVN# and #NVC, and their coarticulatory influence on vowels (V-nasalization…
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The articulatory dynamics of pre-velar and pre-nasal /æ/-raising in English: An ultrasound study Open
Most dialects of North American English exhibit /æ/-raising in some phonological contexts. Both the conditioning environments and the temporal dynamics of the raising vary from region to region. To explore the articulatory basis of /æ/-rai…
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Remote sociophonetic data collection: Vowels and nasalization over video conferencing apps Open
When the COVID-19 pandemic halted in-person data collection, many linguists adopted new online technologies to replace traditional methods, including video conferencing applications (apps) like Zoom (Zoom Video Communications, San Jose, CA…
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The Impact of Nasalance on Cepstral Peak Prominence and Harmonics‐to‐Noise Ratio Open
Objectives/Hypothesis Cepstral peak prominence (CPP) has been reported as a reliable measure of dysphonia and a preferred alternative to harmonics‐to‐noise ratio (HNR). However, CPP has been observed to be sensitive to articulatory variati…
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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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Orofacial function in children with Speech Sound Disorders persisting after the age of six years Open
Purpose: The aim was to investigate, describe and analyse speech characteristics, intelligibility, orofacial function and co-existing neurodevelopmental symptoms in children with SSD of unknown origin, persisting after six years of age.Met…
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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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Physical and phonological causes of coda /t/ glottalization in the mainstream American English of central Ohio Open
In American English, a glottal stop is sometimes pronounced in place of an expected syllable coda /t/, and audible glottalization is attested before both /t/ and /p/ in coda position. Following previous work, we claim that the voiceless st…
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Using Nonce-probe Tests and Auditory Priming to Investigate Speakers' Phonological Knowledge of Tone Sandhi Open
Recent phonological research has shown that speakers may both overlearn and underlearn from lexical patterns of their language.This points to the importance of experimental studies to the construction of phonological analysis.In this paper…
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Vocal tract modelling in fallow deer: are male groans nasalized? Open
Males of several species of deer have a descended and mobile larynx, resulting in an unusually long vocal tract, which can be further extended by lowering the larynx during call production. Formant frequencies are lowered as the vocal trac…
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Objective Measures of Plosive Nasalization in Hypernasal Speech Open
Hypernasal speech is a common symptom across several neurological disorders; however it has a variable acoustic signature, making it difficult to quantify acoustically or perceptually. In this paper, we propose the nasal cognate distinctiv…
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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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The Internal Structure of Nasal-Stop Sequences: Evidence from Austronesian Open
The phonological and phonetic structure of nasal-stop sequences has elicited much attention. Yet, less is known about the internal timing of nasal-stop sequences than often assumed. This includes clusters, both nasal voiced-stop clusters (…
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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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Effects of Biofeedback on Control and Generalization of Nasalization in Typical Speakers Open
Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of biofeedback on control of nasalization in individuals with typical speech. Method Forty-eight individuals with typical speech attempted to increase and decrease vowel nasali…
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Producing and perceiving socially structured coarticulation: Coarticulatory nasalization in Afrikaans Open
Most theories of phonetics assume a tight relation between production and perception, and recent years have also seen increasing evidence for such a relation at the level of the individual. For the most part, however, this evidence comes f…
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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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Nasalisation in the Production of Iraqi Arabic Pharyngeals Open
Aim: This paper presents the auditory and acoustic investigations of pharyngeal consonants in Iraqi Arabic (IA). While the contested place and manner of articulation of these sounds have been the subject of investigation in many studies, t…
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Monolingual and bilingual children's processing of coarticulation cues during spoken word recognition Open
Bilingual children cope with a significant amount of phonetic variability when processing speech, and must learn to weigh phonetic cues differently depending on the cues’ respective roles in their two languages. For example, vowel nasaliza…
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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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Influence of Voice Focus on Oral-Nasal Balance in Speakers of Brazilian Portuguese Open
Objectives: This study investigates whether a change in speaking voice focus affects the oral-nasal balance. The investigation was undertaken with different phonetic materials in speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, which features phonologica…
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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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Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something! Open
Haitian has optional regressive nasal assimilation in a vowel-nasal (VN) context: /fami/ [fãmi] ‘family’. It is found also in recent loan-words in contexts where the source lacks phonetic nasalization. This process systematically underappl…
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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…