Creaky phonation (also known as creaky voice, vocal fry, laryngealization, or glottalization)
is a voice quality that refers to shortened and thickened vocal folds that vibrate at a low and …

This paper addresses the problem of learning object models from egocentric video of
household activities, using extremely weak supervision. For each activity sequence, we …

Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad
introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account …

Purpose: Vietnamese is spoken by over 89 million people in Vietnam and it is one of the
most commonly spoken languages other than English in the US, Canada and Australia. This …

This study investigates the interaction between voice quality and pitch by revisiting the well-
known case of Mandarin creaky voice. This study first provides several pieces of …

The experiment presented in this paper shows that Northern and Southern Vietnamese
tones in isolation are identified by listeners through a small set of acoustic properties. Each …

Proto-Tai is the ancestor of the Tai languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. Modern Tai
languages share many structural similarities and phonological innovations, but …

The Chong language uses a combination of different acoustic correlates to distinguish
among its four contrastive registers (phonation types). Electroglottographic (EGG) and …

Vietnamese, the official language of Vietnam, is spoken natively by over seventy-five million
people in Vietnam and greater Southeast Asia as well as by some two million overseas …

Southeast Asia is often considered a quintessential Sprachbund where languages from five
different language phyla have been converging typologically for millennia. One of the …