Voice onset time (VOT) is an acoustic property of stop consonants that is commonly
manipulated in studies of phonetic perception. This paper contains a thorough description of …

Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence suggests that certain speech sounds are
associated with size, especially high front vowels with 'small'and low back vowels with …

Variation across talkers in the acoustic-phonetic realization of speech sounds is a pervasive
property of spoken language. The present study provides evidence that variation across …

Abstract 1 While the relationships between sounds and meanings are generally arbitrary in
human 2 languages, we do observe cases in which systematic correspondences hold …

Multiple co-varying cues for a phonological contrast are often introduced by coarticulation,
and sound change occurs when their relative weighting shifts. The central issues for this …

Yerevan Armenian is a variety of Eastern Armenian with a three-way voicing contrast that
includes voiced, voiceless unaspirated, and voiceless aspirated stops, but previous work …

The present study investigates patterns of covariation among acoustic properties of stop
consonants in a large multi-talker corpus of American English connected speech. Relations …

There has been a dramatic rise of interest in sound symbolism, systematic associations
between sounds and meanings. Despite this, one aspect that is still markedly under …

The acoustic characteristics of noise from fricatives and stop releases are difficult to analyze.
The spectral characteristics of such noise are multi-dimensional, and popular methods for …

Abstract Kawahara, Noto, and Kumagai (2018b) found that within the corpus of existing
Pokémon names, the number of voiced obstruents in the characters' names correlates …