The terms hesitation, planner, filler, and filled pause do not always refer to the same phonetic entities. This terminological conundrum is approached by investigating the observational, explanatory, and descriptive inadequacies of the terms in use....
Recent work in corpus linguistics has observed that informativity predicts articulatory reduction of a linguistic unit above and beyond the unit’s predictability in the local context, i.e., the unit’s probability given the current context...
Research in Loanword Phonology has extensively examined the adaptation processes of Anglicisms into recipient languages. In the Tijuana–San Diego border region, where English and Spanish have reciprocally existed, Anglicisms exhibit two main ph...
To rescue and preserve an endangered language, this paper studied an end-to-end speech recognition model based on sample transfer learning for the low-resource Tujia language. From the perspective of the Tujia language international phonetic alphabet...
This study investigates the use of the discourse marker cioè in the Italian speech of first- and second-generation migrants living in Naples, focusing on frequency, phonetic realization, pragmatic functions, and syntactic position. While previ...
This study investigates the phonetic variation in Italian dental affricates, focusing on the role of lexical frequency, phonological context, geographical origin, and speech style (read speech vs. collaborative dialogue). Previous research on lexical...
Pronunciation assessment is central to computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) and speaking tests, yet most systems still adopt a native norm, treating deviations from canonical L1 pronunciations as errors. In contrast, rating rubrics and psy...
Spanish voiced stops /b, d, ɡ/ surfaced as fricatives [β, ð, ɣ] in intervocalic position due to a phonological process known as spirantization or, more broadly, lenition. However, conditioned by various factors such as stress, plac...
In this article, we tested some specific claims made in the literature on relative distances among European languages and among Chinese dialects, suggesting that some language varieties within the Sinitic family traditionally called dialects are, in...
One of the approaches to quantitative text analysis is to represent a given text in the form of a time series, which can be followed by an information entropy study for different text representations, such as “symbolic entropy”, “ph...
Accounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers’ knowledge about their native language. This...
During the Bronze Age, the inhabitants of regions of Crete, mainland Greece, and Cyprus inscribed their languages using, among other scripts, a writing system called Linear A. These symbols, mainly characterized by combinations of lines, have, since...
The main purpose of this study is to test a method for the analysis of phonetic variation in natural speech. The method takes into account the continuous nature of the speech flow and allows for the investigation of the systematic variation phenomena...
This paper intends to present a large-scale dataset for Arabic morphology from a cognitive point of view considering the uniqueness of the root–pattern phenomenon. The center of attention is focused on studying this singularity in terms of estimating...
While variation in the southern Peninsular Spanish affricate /tʃ/ has been considered in the context of deaffrication to [ʃ], this study examines an emergent variant [ts] in the context of sociolinguistic identity and style in political spe...
This paper addresses how gender and age, as macro-sociological factors, influence variation and change in the Northern Moroccan Arabic variety of Ouezzane, and how social meaning plays a role in this variation. To do so, it examines the high degree o...
This study is devoted to the transcription of human speech in the Kazakh language in dynamically changing conditions. It discusses key aspects related to the phonetic structure of the Kazakh language, technical considerations in collecting the transc...
Loanword Research on Anglicisms has largely centered on lexical borrowing and phonological adaptation with comparatively limited attention to morphosyntactic integration in recipient grammars. This study examines the morphosyntactic behavior of 74 si...
This paper examines patterns of gemination in child Egyptian Arabic, with a focus on how gemination functions as a repair strategy, using data from the Egyptian Arabic Salama Corpus. The findings show that the phonological development of Egyptian Ara...
Saturated diving plays an important role in fields such as navigation operations, ocean development, military oceanography, and maritime rescue and is indispensable for the marine economy. Heliumspeech communication is an essential component of deep-...
The present article reinterprets the history of polyglot lexicography and encyclopedic language projects in late imperial China from the Yuan and the Ming through the Qing periods by tracing a three-stage transformation. The Yuan period inaugurated a...
The article provides an analysis of several aspects of the corpus of surnames used by Jews who lived after the end of the Middle Ages in the territory that today corresponds to the Republic of Georgia. One section covers historical aspects: the earli...
The construction of pronunciation dictionaries relies on high-quality and extensive training data in data-driven way. However, the manual annotation of corpus for this purpose is both costly and time consuming, especially for low-resource languages t...
This study focuses on the development and evaluation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for Kazakh child speech, an underexplored domain in both linguistic and computational research. A specialized acoustic corpus was constructed for child...
Speech audiometry tests are a crucial tool in clinical care and research. In Dutch, the common practice is to use lists of monosyllabic words with a consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) structure. However, there are relatively few lists, and they are shor...
Jiao-Liao Mandarin, a distinguished dialect in China, reflects the linguistic features and cultural heritage of the Jiao-Liao region. However, the labor-intensive and costly nature of manual transcription limits the scale of transcribed corpora, posi...
Cultural memory in classical poetry is carried not by isolated words but through textual relations, interpretive traditions, and paratextual frames. Taking “Nanshan” (南山) in the Shijing (詩經) as a mnemonic node,...
In recent years, with increasing international communication and cooperation, the consensus of toponymic information among different countries has become increasingly important. A large number of English geographical names are in urgent need of trans...
This work investigates how different language modeling techniques affect the performance of an end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for the Amazigh language. A (CNN-BiLSTM-CTC) model enhanced with an attention mechanism was used as th...
The coal mining industry in Northern Shaanxi is robust, with a prevalent use of the local dialect, known as “Shapu”, characterized by a distinct Northern Shaanxi accent. This study addresses the practical need for speech recognition in th...
Voice interfaces to anthropomorphic robotic arms are typically evaluated without a formal safety layer, or with safety as a post hoc filter trusting the transcript, leaving transcript corruption unaddressed. This paper presents the DAS3 Neuro-Voice C...
The core challenge of speech synthesis technology is how to convert text information into an audible audio form to meet the needs of users. In recent years, the quality of speech synthesis based on end-to-end speech synthesis models has been signific...
The score-based diffusion model has made significant progress in the field of computer vision, surpassing the performance of generative models, such as variational autoencoders, and has been extended to applications such as speech enhancement and rec...
Background/Objectives: Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects both articulatory and phonatory subsystems, leading to characteristic speech changes known as hypokinetic dysarthria. However, few studies have jointly analyzed these subsystems within the...
A sociophonetic study of coda /t/ in Australian Englishes spoken in Warrnambool and Mildura, Victoria, Australia, is described. A total of 2112 coda /t/ tokens produced by 61 adult L1 speakers was analyzed using auditory and acoustic profiling, focus...
This study rigorously evaluates 13 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures for Thai dialect recognition. By treating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) as a computer vision texture classification task, we processed an extensive 840-h dataset...
With the development of the Internet, there has been a significant increase in various types of textual information. However, when people engage in the composition of formal texts, they often incorporate their colloquial habits, which can diminish th...
Along with the explosion of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence question-answering system has been pushed to a climax. Intelligent question-answering enables computers to simulate people’s behavior habits of understanding a corpus through mach...
This study uses linguistic evidence to examine the cultural dimensions of the term “matchmaker” within Liangshan Yi society, Sichuan, China. The present linguistic analysis reveals that two distinct Chinese words related to marriage were...