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Quantitative Acoustic versus Deep Learning Metrics of Lenition

Ratree Wayland,
Kevin Tang,
Fenqi Wang,
Sophia Vellozzi and
Rahul Sengupta

Languages2023, 8(2), 98;https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020098

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29 March 2023

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...

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Speech Markers of Parkinson’s Disease: Phonological Features and Acoustic Measures

Ratree Wayland,
Rachel Meyer and
Kevin Tang

Brain Sci.2025, 15(11), 1162;https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci15111162

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29 October 2025

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...

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