Acoustic Analysis

AbstractIn this paper, we present the design, collection, transcription and analysis of a Mandarin Chinese Broadcast Collection of over 3000 hours. The data was collected by Hong Kong University of …...

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [lol]: a preliminary study of laughter in 18- to 36- month old children Laughter is a non-verbal vocal behavior that has been extensively studied in philosophy and biology, but …...

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Acoustic analysis of atypical contrasts in Northern-Irish English This paper participates in the discussion about the problematic status of the so-called “derived contrasts”. Our study consists in an acoustic …...

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Voicing contrast in whispered speech This paper presents analyses on the phonological voicing contrast in whispered speech, which is characterized by a semi-open configuration of the vocal folds preventing …...

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Rhoticity and derhoticisation in Ayrshire Scottish English Scottish English is typically described as a rhotic variety, whose rhotic variants are taps [ɾ] and approximants [ɹ] (Wells, 1982 : 411). …...