Finally, students will also be involved in dissemination of work in several scholarly communities of interest (speech science/phonetics, cross-linguistic sound systems, linguistic fieldwork, Amazonian ...

Phonetics: The study of the physical attributes of speech sounds, including their production by the vocal tract, their acoustic properties, and their perception by the auditory system.

It aims to give a “systematic, conscious consideration of how speech sounds are made, what they sound like, and how they compare with each other”. [1] Applications . Phonetics is an important ...

The sounds were derived from recorded, synthesized speech. Initially subjects would hear identical “dah” or “tah” sounds — four in a row — which would reduce brain activity because of ...

Although languages around the world vary greatly, some share similar speech sounds. A new study suggests that labiodental sounds like “f” and “v” are included in about half of the world ...

Acoustic phonetics is the study of the physical properties of speech and aims to analyse sound wave signals that occur within speech through varying frequencies, amplitudes and durations.. One way we ...

Pronunciation is frequently overlooked until it’s too late, and when teachers *do* try to teach it, they focus on the individual sounds that the language makes, rather than stress and intonation ...

People with phonetic disorders have trouble physically articulating words. For example, someone with a lisp tends to distort his or her words, being unable to make the necessary mouth and tongue ...

The project aims to describe the uses of nasality, or passage of air through the nose during speech, in Indigenous Amazonian languages. Nearly all languages have nasal consonants such as “m” or “n”; ...