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Esposito, Christina M. – Language and Speech, 2011
This study investigates the influence of linguistic experience on the perception of pathologically-disordered voices using 18 listeners of American English, which has allophonic breathiness, 12 listeners of Gujarati, which contrasts breathy and modal vowels, and 18 listeners of Spanish, which has neither allophonic nor phonemic breathiness.…
Descriptors: Phonetics, North American English, Indo European Languages, Spanish
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Scarborough, Rebecca; Keating, Patricia; Mattys, Sven L.; Cho, Taehong; Alwan, Abeer – Language and Speech, 2009
In a study of optical cues to the visual perception of stress, three American English talkers spoke words that differed in lexical stress and sentences that differed in phrasal stress, while video and movements of the face were recorded. The production of stressed and unstressed syllables from these utterances was analyzed along many measures of…
Descriptors: North American English, Phonetics, Visual Perception, Suprasegmentals
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Oxley, Judith; Roussel, Nancye; Buckingham, Hugh – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
This paper presents a four-subject study that examines the relative influence of syllable position and stress, together with vowel context on the colouring of the dark-l characteristic of speakers of General American English. Most investigators report lighter /l/ tokens in syllable onsets and darker tokens in coda positions. The present study…
Descriptors: North American English, Syllables, Language Patterns, Articulation (Speech)