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Neutralization of Syllable-final Voicing in German

1985

German is well known for its neutralization of the voicing contrast in word-final obstruents. However, acoustic analysis of ten pairs of German words produced by ten native speakers revealed that the distributions of acoustic parameters for underlying voiced and voiceless stops are significantly different, despite considerable overlap between the two categories. Furthermore, in a listening test, German listeners were able to distinguish the voiced and voiceless pairs with about 60% accuracy—significantly better than chance. Several mechanisms for such a “semicontrast” are considered, including the possibility that it is an experimental artifact. It is concluded that this is not an artifact,…

Linguistics and LanguageProperty (programming)Speech recognitionContrast (statistics)ObstruentLanguage and Linguisticslanguage.human_languageListening testGermanSpeech and HearinglanguageVoiceNatural (music)SyllablePsychology
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Latviešu valodas nebalsīgo troksneņu akustisks un auditīvs raksturojums

2013

Elektroniskā versija nesatur pielikumus

nebalsīgie troksneņiauditīvās pazīmesValodniecībaakustiskās pazīmesValodu un kultūras studijas dzimtās valodas studijas un valodu programmasacoustic propertiesvoiceless obstruentsauditory propertiesDistinctive Feature Theoryšķīrējpazīmju teorijaLanguage
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