A current theoretical view proposes that infants converge on the speech categories of their
native language by attending to frequency distributions that occur in the acoustic input. To …

This dissertation investigates an often assumed hypothesis in phonetics and phonology: that
there should be relatively less within-category phonetic variation in production in languages …

Previous work has shown that vowels following alveopalatal sibilants typically exhibit raised
second formant (F2) values, typically attributed to coarticulatory vowel fronting (eg Stevens …

This study examines dental and retroflex sibilants in Taiwan Mandarin. The center of gravity
of frication and formant transitions of the following vowel are used to examine whether a …

Individual talkers vary in their relative use of different cues to signal phonological contrast.
Previous work provides limited and conflicting data on whether such variation is modulated …

Both frication noise and formant transitions have been argued to be important cues in
sibilant perception. Additionally, the availability of coarticulatory cues to adjacent segments …

Sound systems are a basic building block of any human language. An integral part of the
acquisition of sound systems is the learning of allophony. In sound systems, some segments …

4.7 Lobanov-normalisierte F3-Werte zum zeitlichen Vokalonset getrennt für die drei
Sibilanten und separat für die kindlichen, die männlichen und die weiblichen erwachsenen …