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ItemThe placement and acoustic realisation of primary and secondary stress in Indian EnglishFuchs, R ; Maxwell, O (International Phonetic Association, 2015)This study examined the acoustic correlates of primary and secondary stress in Indian English. Together with the patterns of lexical stress placement, the parameters of syllable duration, pitch slope, intensity and spectral balance were examined in six noun-verb pairs. Two L1 backgrounds (Hindi and Malayalam) were examined. Results showed that lexical stress placement varied substantially across the speakers, but was in the majority of cases on the same syllable as in American or British English. Second, speakers relied on (in order of importance) differences in intensity, spectral balance, duration, and pitch slope to distinguish primary from secondary stress. The results also showed that Indian English differs from other varieties in the phonetic realisation of the primary-secondary stress distinction.
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ItemPerception of Italian and Japanese singleton/geminate consonants by listeners from different language backgroundsHAJEK, J ; Tsukada, K ; Cox, F ; Hirata, Y (The University of Glasgow, 2015)
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ItemWord-initial voiceless stop geminates in Kelantan Malay: Acoustic evidence from amplitude/F0 ratiosHamzah, MH ; Fletcher, J ; Hajek, J ; Wolters, M ; Livingstone, J ; Beattie, B ; Smith, R ; MacMahon, M ; Stuart-Smith, J ; Scobbie, J (University of Glasgow, 2015)
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ItemLa percezione dell’uso dei dialetti a Roma e provinciaBresin, A ; Hajek, J ; Kretzenbacher, H ; Pirvu, E (Franco Cesati, 2015)This is a preliminary description of reported use of dialects in contemporary Rome. 151 respondents living in Rome were invited to specify how often they speak a local dialect or any other Italian dialect in their everyday life. Their answers are seen in relation to their age and gender. The interpretation of results is informed by qualitative data and considers aspects that could have influenced respondents’ answers, such as self-censorship, social prestige attached to dialects, proximity of Roman dialect to normative Italian and perception of what is Roman dialect.
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ItemLexical tone in LopitBILLINGTON, R ; The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS, (University of Glasgow, 2015)
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ItemPerception of Cantonese tones by Mandarin speakersWu, M ; Bundgaard-Nielsen, R ; BAKER, B ; Best, C ; Fletcher, J ; The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015, (International Phonetics Association, 2015)
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ItemThe vowel inventory of Roper KriolBundgaard-Nielsen, R ; BAKER, B ; The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015, (International Phonetics Association, 2015)
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ItemA comparison of the acoustics of nonsense and real word stimuli: coronal stops in BengaliMaxwell, O ; BAKER, B ; Bundgaard-Nielsen, R ; Fletcher, J ; The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015, (International Phonetics Society, 2015)Research suggests that nonsense and real words often exhibit differences in their acoustic properties. Despite this, the use of nonsense stimuli is prevalent in acoustic analyses of a range of phenomena and in experimental studies of segmental perception. The present study examined stop duration and preceding vowel formant transitions for two Bengali coronal stops produced in real and nonsense word stimuli. Firstly, significant differences were observed based on the stimulus type. Nonsense word production showed more distinct dental-retroflex differentiation. Secondly, the results revealed that F3 was a more reliable cue to place of articulation than closure duration and voice onset time.
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ItemVoicing perception in the absence of voicing contrastBundgaard-Nielsen, R ; BAKER, B (International Speech Communication Association, 2015)
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ItemWubuy coronal stop perception by speakers of three dialects of Bangla.Bundgaard-Nielsen, R ; BAKER, B ; Maxwell, O ; Fletcher, J (International Speech Communication Association, 2015)We tested native speakers from three major dialect groups of Bangla, on their discrimination of a four-way coronal stop contrast from the Australian Indigenous language Wubuy. Bangla is generally assumed to have a two-way contrast in coronal stops, with an additional place distinction in affricates. The results show that Bangla speakers are able to discriminate the Wubuy contrasts, but also that certain contrasts are more difficult to discriminate than others. We discuss these results with respect to the Bangla coronal inventory, and importantly, with respect to the variation in the phonetic realisation of coronals between the dialects of Bangla. We argue that the phonetic realisation of what is regarded to be the 'same' phonemic inventory can have implications for the perceptual behaviour of speakers.