The research work presents experimental work to build a speaker-independent connected
word Hindi speech recognition system using different feature extraction techniques with …

Over a century of phonetic research has established the cross-linguistic existence of the so
called “voicing effect”, by which vowels tend to be shorter when followed by voiceless stops …

This dissertation investigates language-specific acoustic and aerodynamic phenomena in
language contact situations. Whereas most work on second language and bilingual …

One of the most widely studied observations in linguistic phonetics is that, all else being
equal, vowels are longer before voiced than before voiceless obstruents. The causes of this …

Purpose: There is a dearth of literature in determining whether language groups for whom
aspiration and/or voicing is phonologically contrastive show better perception relative to …

Four experiments tested what cues contribute to English speakers' perception of vowel
duration. Listeners categorized the duration of vowels as 'long'or 'short'for stimuli produced …

This dissertation focusses on the socalled “voicing effect”, by which vowels tend to be
shorter when followed by voiceless stops and to be longer when followed by voiced stops …

Abstract Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language which contrasts a rich set of coronal stops at
dental and retroflex places of articulation across three laryngeal configurations. Moreover …

Voiced stops tend to be preceded by longer vowels and produced with a more advanced
tongue root than voiceless stops. The duration of a vowel is affected by the voicing of the …

When codas and vowels are cross-spliced, vowels originally produced with voiced codas
are perceived as longer than vowels of the same duration produced with voiceless codas …