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 …

Purpose This study reports data on vocal fundamental frequency (fo) and the first four
formant frequencies (F1, F2, F3, F4) for four vowels produced by speakers in three adult age …

Purpose This study systematically assessed the effects of select linear predictive coding
(LPC) analysis parameter manipulations on vowel formant measurements for diverse …

The aim of this paper is to determine whether all languages in the linguistic repertoire of a
multilingual speaker manifest cross-linguistic influence (CLI) and establish the directions of …

This thesis constitutes an indirect contribution to the problem of modeling phonetic category
acquisition in infancy. Some specific computational models of phonetic category acquisition …

The paper describes methods of conducting vowel analysis from a large-scale corpus with
the aids of forced alignment and optimal formant ceiling methods.'Read Style Corpus of …

Two experiments test how phrasal prominence influences listeners' perception of vowel
contrasts and how prominence information and vowel formant cues are integrated in …

This dissertation investigates the effects of phonological neighborhoods on pronunciation
variation in conversational speech. Phonological neighbors are defined as words that are …

It is often taken for granted that the glides [j] and [w] differ from their high-vowel counterparts
[i] and [u] by having a greater degree of constriction and shorter duration. Yet there is little …

The acoustic-phonetic properties of speech sounds vary substantially across languages,
and across talkers within a single language. The central thesis of this dissertation is that …