Twenty years after the publication of a special issue in this journal on non-modal phonation
(JPhon 2001: 49 (4)), the phonetic study of voice quality has shown impressive progress …

In this special collection entitled Marking 50 Years of Research on Voice Onset Time and the
Voicing Contrast in the World's Languages, we have compiled eleven studies investigating …

Speech consists of a continuous stream of acoustic signals, yet humans can segment words
and other constituents from each other with astonishing precision. The acoustic properties …

Lengthening of segments at the end of prosodic domains is commonly considered a
universal phenomenon, but language-specific variation has also been reported, specifically …

4. Project objectives: This project aims to develop a pedagogy guidebook to enhance course
teaching and learning by using instant messaging (IM) in e-learning and m-learning …

This study explores the relationship between prosodic strengthening and linguistic contrasts
in English by examining temporal realization of nasals (N-duration) in CVN# and# NVC, and …

This review article discusses some fundamental issues regarding linguistic functions of
prosody that underlies speech variation on the surface. An important premise of the current …

In present-day Seoul Korean, the primary phonetic feature for the lenis–aspirated stop
distinction is shifting from VOT to F0. Some previous studies have considered this sound …

This study examines the phonetic and phonological knowledge of Spanish and English/l/by
early and late Spanish-English bilinguals along a continuum of language dominance. Forty …

This study addresses the two-way laryngeal contrast of plosives in Tokyo Japanese, which is
commonly analyzed as a “true voicing” language. We examine how voicing-related …