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This paper shows an analysis of Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) coefficient for Vowel-Consonant-Vowel (VCV) sequence in order to determine the temporal transfer function of vocal tract. The Linear Prediction model is a linear combination of the speech sample and the glottal pulse as exciter. The acoustical output of the dynamic system is speech sample. Here, a sequence VCV is analyzed by using LPC...
The present study examined the citation patterns of Mandarin tones in prelingual deaf adults with cochelar implants or hearing aids. The results showed that the participants tried to build up tonal pattern by exploring phonetic features such as creaky voice and tonal duration. The results also indicated that although the participants had problems distinguishing T2 from T3, T2 was harder than T3 for...
Sepedi (Southern Bantu, S30) does not have grammaticalized focus prosody due to which focused constituents are unambiguously marked by prosodic prominence in one way or another. Nevertheless, prosodic traces of emphasis might still exist. The paper reports on a study that investigates acoustic traces of emphasis in Sepedi and their role for processing. An auditory analysis of sentences uttered in...
This study examines potential contribution of prosodic features and voice quality to the perception and production of Japanese polite speech as well as possible gender effects in politeness strategy. We first recorded speech from 10 native Japanese speakers (5 male, 5 female) under polite and non-polite settings with identical texts. Then perceptual experiment was conducted to rate the politeness...
The study intends to explore EFL learners' Rhythm of English through a phonetic experiment over the reading-aloud task produced by the English learners from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The tested subjects are grouped as the first-year non-major learners(NM1), the second-year non-major learners(NM2), the first-year major learners(M1) and the second-year major learners(M2). On the basis of the...
The present case study investigated the speech production and perception of developmental dyslexia through prosodic cues in Standard Chinese. As a non-alphabetic tonal language, there is a complex neurobiological mechanism between visual picture processing and semantic priming, perception and production of prosodic patterns. The experimental materials employed in the study were the syntactic structure...
Previous studies into interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit (ISIB) have focused on the influence of subjects' native language (L1) on the phonetic production and perception in their second language (L2). However, no research so far has examined the effect of the listeners' exposure and training in a second language (L2) on their understanding of L2-accented native language (L1). This paper...
The present study investigates the accent realization of English learners from Chinese dialectal regions, i.e., Beijing, Jinan, Zhenjiang and Hangzhou(hereinafter BJ, JN, ZhJ and HZ, respectively) within the frame of ‘Focus-to-Accent’ FTA theory. The words within the focus scope are designed to have different numbers of syllables and various word stress distributions. Results have demonstrated that...
The paper investigates the articulatory and spectral characteristics of the two sets of Cantonese vowels, the long [i: y: u: ɛ: œ: ɔ: a:] and medium-long [i y u ɛ œ ɔ a], using EMA AG500 and CSL4500. Results show the acoustic consequences of up-down and front-back displacements in linguo-palatal constriction are non-linear, as what the quantal theory claims. Moderate displacements in constriction...
This paper describes a face-muscle model system capable of emoting avatars in a variety of applications. The presented model produces dynamically changing facial expressions on computer generated faces, using mathematically modeled muscle deformations. The muscle model used to distort sets of vertices in a 3D space, is independent of the geometric model and hence it can be applied to arbitrary face...
The Open Distributed Processing Reference Model (ODP-RM) provides viewpoints and abstract infrastructure guidelines that can be used for a basis for enterprise architecture, especially for an inter-enterprise architecture. The ODP-RM does not prescribe methodology for modeling itself, but provides common vocabulary and focus for description. This paper performs a brief analysis of the ODP-RM (and...
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