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Sampaio, Marília; Masson, Maria Lúcia Vaz; de Paula Soares, Maria Francisca; Bohlender, Jörg Edgar; Brockmann-Bauser, Meike – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Smoothed cepstral peak prominence (CPPS) and harmonics-to-noise ratio (HNR) are acoustic measures related to the periodicity, harmonicity, and noise components of an acoustic signal. To date, there is little evidence about the advantages of CPPS over HNR in voice diagnostics. Recent studies indicate that voice fundamental frequency (F0)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Voice Disorders, Portuguese, Acoustics
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Goodin-Mayeda, C. Elizabeth – Hispania, 2015
Brazilian Portuguese allows only /s, N, l, r/ syllable finally, and of these, only /s/ is realized faithfully (as well as /r/ for some speakers). In order to avoid unacceptable codas, dialects of Brazilian Portuguese employ such strategies as epenthesis, nasal absorption, debucalization, and gliding. The current analysis argues that codas in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Syllables, Dialects