Speech processing requires sensitivity to long-term regularities of the native language yet
demands listeners to flexibly adapt to perturbations that arise from talker idiosyncrasies such …

Speech categories are defined by multiple acoustic dimensions, and listeners give
differential weighting to dimensions in phonetic categorization. The informativeness …

Japanese has a phonemic contrast between short and long nasal and obstruent consonant
series, as exemplified by minimal pairs like [kata]'frame'vs.[katta]'bought'and …

Italian L1 speakers of English L2 produce the same English sound as longer if spelled with
two than with one letter, following Italian grapheme-phoneme conversion rules. Do Italian …

One factor known to affect a second language learner's pronunciation accuracy of non-
native sounds is their perception accuracy of the same sounds. However, it is not clear how …

Many languages distinguish short and long consonants, or singletons and geminates. The
primary acoustic correlate of this distinction is the duration of the consonants. Given that the …

Little is known on the phonetics and the phonotactic constraints of Maltese. This dissertation
sheds light on aspects of syllable structure and geminates in Maltese in order to contribute to …

The theory of relational acoustic invariance claims that there are stable acoustic properties
in speech signals that correspond to a phonological feature, and that the perception system …

It is widely accepted that the Japanese language is mora-timed, and the geminate obstruent,
one of the three special morae in the Japanese language, forms one independent mora …

This study takes up an acoustic phonetic investigation of the word-initial singleton/geminate
contrast in Kelantan Malay (henceforth KM). Production and perception data were gathered …