Phonetic Study Research Articles

Sociolinguistic view on the soft plosives

Studies in Phonetics, Dialectology and Sociolinguistics state a difference between soft consonants of eastern and western Bulgarian type, which also manifests itself at the auditory level. In the present study, we present the results of an experiment with an object of study – the soft plosive bilabial consonants with eastern and western types of articulation. The perceptual experiment aims to check whether modern speakers of the Bulgarian language perceive a difference between the articulation of soft consonants of both types. A gender division was also included in the experiment to determine whether such a difference was perceived equally in terms of articulation by women and men.

DETEKSI KEBOHONGAN BERDASARKAN FITUR-FITUR SUPRASEGMENTAL: PENDEKATAN LINGUISTIK FORENSIK

This research was conducted to detect lies based on suprasegmental features from phonetic studies using a forensic linguistic approach. This research uses a qualitative method by applying experimental phonetics described in narrative form. Data collection was obtained from the results of interrogation which were stored in the form of recordings (wav. file). The interrogation was carried out after the determination of the research sample as many as three students (two men and one woman) who became suspects. Data processing used Praat voice analyzer software version 6.3.09 to display the suprasegmental features of speech that indicated lies. Based on the data processing, it was found that rapid intonation changes from rise to fall, or vice versa indicated a person's level of tension in speaking, as well as the presence of pauses in a longer duration and high voice frequency in the initial position of speech characterizes that someone commits lying.

Could L1 intonation patterns be applied in teaching Mandarin tones to atonal learners of Chinese? – An acoustic phonetic study

Abstract This study focuses on the acoustic comparison of Mandarin Chinese lexical tones and Hungarian monosyllabic intonation patterns. The aim of this experiment was to explore whether atonal L1 intonation patterns are applicable in teaching tones in L2 Mandarin Chinese, and also to investigate to what extent atonal and tonal monosyllabic contours differ. Mandarin Chinese rising Tone 2 is compared to two corresponding Hungarian rising contours: i) monosyllabic interrogative contour and ii) the rising phase of the f 0 pattern in alternative questions. Mandarin Chinese falling Tone 4 is likewise compared to Hungarian i) declarative and ii) imperative f 0 curves. We compared Mandarin Chinese and Hungarian native speakers’ production regarding five acoustic features. Results show that Mandarin Chinese Tone 2 is articulated with longer duration, and a more concave f 0 curve compared to Hungarian rising intonation patterns. Mandarin Chinese Tone 4, on the other hand, was found to differ from the Hungarian imperative contour only in terms of the f 0 curve shape, since Tone 4 featured a more domed curve. Hungarian declaratives are characterized by a more concave f 0 pattern, realized in a lower f 0 range compared to Tone 4. The results of this study may contribute to the proper application of atonal intonation patterns in L2 teaching of Mandarin Chinese through the differences and similarities between atonal and tonal monosyllabic f 0 patterns.

Rima Aliterasi dan Asonansi sebagai Sumber Ritma Linguistik Surah Fatihah yang Mensinkroni Gelombang Otak

Sound rhythm is one of the factors that make the sound of the Holy Quran rhythmic and synchronous that change the rhythm of human brain waves. However, less studies have been found, and previous studies have focused more on the end rhyme system (end faselah) of the verses of the Qur'an. Thus, we conducted an acoustic phonetic study on the rhyming system in the verses of the Qur'an which is the source of the rhythmic sound in the verses of the Qur'an which contributes to the aesthetics of the sound. Acoustic phonetic analysis was performed on sound waves from Surah al-Fatihah using PRAAT software by comparing its intensity with Arabic News. As a result, we found the existence of a rhyme system of alliteration and assonance in the verses of this surah, that is, in the first, third, fifth and seventh verses which are highlighted by the contours of intensity and time duration of letters, syllables and words that show the greatness of God, giving birth to a feeling of closeness to God in addition to giving birth to the effect of persuasion which is the basis of spiritual therapy. In addition, the end rhyme system found in the Fatihah Chapter is significant (p<0.05) compared to the Arabic News. In conclusion, the Fatihah Chapter also has a rhyme system in its verses, not only at the end of the verse, suggesting that the brain that listens to the sound of the Qur'an is able to synchronize and form rhythmic and harmonious waves that influence mental and physical well-being.

Kesan Modul Terapi Realiti (MTR) Terhadap Ciri-ciri dan Kemurungan Mangsa Buli dari Perspektif Islam

Sound rhythm is one of the factors that make the sound of the Holy Quran rhythmic and synchronous that change the rhythm of human brain waves. However, less studies have been found, and previous studies have focused more on the end rhyme system (end faselah) of the verses of the Qur'an. Thus, we conducted an acoustic phonetic study on the rhyming system in the verses of the Qur'an which is the source of the rhythmic sound in the verses of the Qur'an which contributes to the aesthetics of the sound. Acoustic phonetic analysis was performed on sound waves from Surah al-Fatihah using PRAAT software by comparing its intensity with Arabic News. As a result, we found the existence of a rhyme system of alliteration and assonance in the verses of this surah, that is, in the first, third, fifth and seventh verses which are highlighted by the contours of intensity and time duration of letters, syllables and words that show the greatness of God, giving birth to a feeling of closeness to God in addition to giving birth to the effect of persuasion which is the basis of spiritual therapy. In addition, the end rhyme system found in the Fatihah Chapter is significant (p<0.05) compared to the Arabic News. In conclusion, the Fatihah Chapter also has a rhyme system in its verses, not only at the end of the verse, suggesting that the brain that listens to the sound of the Qur'an is able to synchronize and form rhythmic and harmonious waves that influence mental and physical well-being.

Frozen Moments and Fleeting Seasons: An Ecocritical and Phonetic Study of Temporality in Keats’s Major Odes

Frozen Moments and Fleeting Seasons: An Ecocritical and Phonetic Study of Temporality in Keats’s Major Odes

Variability, overlap, and cue trading in intonation

Abstract: We modeled the Greek H*, L+H*, and H*+L pitch accents using functional principal component analysis, followed by statistical modeling and curve reconstruction. The accents were distinguished by F0 height and shape. The data also exhibited cue trading between F0 and duration, as well as systematic context-driven variation and general variability, which led to category overlap comparable to that reported for vowel contrasts. These findings indicate that intonation categories are more similar to segmental categories than previously thought, supporting the view that the study of intonation phonetics and phonology should follow the same principles as the study of segments.

The other Side of the Word: a Sociolinguistic Study of Romanian Agricultural Words

Analyzing the Romanian vocabulary in the cultural context of its development could lead to a better understanding of the Daco-Romanian civilization and language as a branch of the Indo-European language family. This socio-linguistic approach of studying a vocabulary has the scope of enlarging the field of philology beyond the limited study of phonetics and morphology. By trying to understand the social context in which the word was used, and in the case of merging with concepts belonging to an invading population with same ancestral heritage, Indo-European in our case, the preference for one form over an older one, or the other way around, can offer a better historical perspective. Starting from the reconstructed Indo-European roots, the etymological solutions could elucidate many of unsolved linguistic problems.

Arabic Language Literacy as an All-Important Aid in English Language Teaching to Arabic-Speaking Students

Current research points to the importance of native language literacy in the development of second language literacy. Knowledge and skills transfer across languages from the mother tongue to the second language. But such knowledge and skills will only transfer if they have been thoroughly learned. Due to the low standard of Arabic proficiency among both English teachers and learners, literacy in Arabic is not made use of in developing literacy in English. In particular, the teaching of English could greatly benefit from the use of Arabic grammatical and phonetic concepts that are not sufficiently developed in English grammar and language. Only a select number of such concepts are reviewed in this paper to serve as indicators of the advantages to be gained by a deeper study and knowledge of Arabic language phonetics and grammar.

At the table or on the menu: Engaging the community in research

Community engaged or participatory research is a theoretical and practical framework of collaboration between a community and a research team to answer a question of mutual interest. The experimental factors from identification of the research question, identification of the group, and identification of the objects of measurement through the dissemination of the results are ideally a collaborative and iterative process between the community and the research team. This research method can be challenging to orchestrate. However, without ongoing conversations throughout the experimental process between the community of practice and the research team the data gathered may have limited practical use to the community, may misinterpret practices within the community or may inadvertently denigrate typical behavior in the community as dysfunctional or disordered. The presented work describes one approach to engage communities as active participants in the research process from problem identification through dissemination of the results. The methods used for engaging community participants in both a language and an acoustic phonetic study will be shared. Results will be discussed in terms of experimental outcomes, community perspective, and community benefit.

Prominence Analysis of President Jokowi's Speeches on the Palestine–Israel Conflict: Acoustic Phonetic Study

The aim of this research is to represent the prominence contained in President Jokowi's statements regarding the Palestinian and Israeli conflicts, as well as to find the values of frequency, duration, and intensity as characteristics of the sound. This research is quantitave research with an instrumental approach. The research data is an audiovisual form, and it is analyzed using the Praat application. The result shows that the prominence of President Jokowi's statement is found in the words 'indonesia' and 'war', namely in the rightmost syllables: -sia and -rang. When communicating, speakers tend to pay more attention to words that they think are important. It has also been proven that the factors that influence the formation of prominence are pitch, loudness, and duration, with values of F0, intensity, and duration for stressed syllables is higher than unstressed syllables. Apart from that, prominence can also occur when speakers want to highlight words that are considered important.

Vowels in Cuban Spanish. An acoustic phonetic study of Havana speech samples

Vowels in Cuban Spanish. An acoustic phonetic study of Havana speech samples

English Phonological Operations: A Study of Rule Interactions

This study focuses on English phonological operations with emphasis on rule interaction, rule ordering, bleeding, and feeding. It is a study in rule-governed phonological description. The method adopted for analysis is the descriptive survey approach. The theoretical framework adopted is Noam Chomsky’s generative phonology. The finding is that phonological descriptive generalization is best done by rules rather than by phonemic analysis. This study recommends that the study of phonetics and phonology in Nigerian universities should focus more on practical exposure using laboratory instruments; laboratory exercises in conversational English using relevant phonological materials (tapes, records, video films, among others.), distinctive features, and rule writing approach for the advanced students are recommended.

Хезитационные явления в устном монологе-рассказе на неродном языке (на материале русской речи китайцев)

The article analyzes the Russian oral spontaneous monologue story in a non-native language. The aim of the work is a comprehensive analysis of hesitation phenomena (HP) in Russian oral monologue stories presented by Chinese speakers. The main research methods used in the work are descriptive (contextual), quantitative (simple quantitative calculations), comparative and experimental (transcription of recorded texts). The material for the analysis was taken from 20 monologues of native Chinese speakers on the topic ‘How do you spend time on vacation?’ from the corpus of Russian monologue speech created at St. Petersburg State University and known as the ‘Balanced Annotated Text Library’. The paper describes different HP in such a monologue, calculates the frequency of their occurrence; the data obtained are compared with the results of similar studies conducted based on the material of the Russian speech of the Chinese. The analysis showed that in the Russian oral monologue story delivered by the Chinese, there are present not only all the types of HP known in the scientific literature but also some phenomena peculiar only to the speech of the Chinese. Physical hesitation pauses, non-speech sounds, vowel stretches, word breaks, and repetitions-hesitations are the most typical (top 5) HP in their speech. This is consistent with the results of other studies, based on the material of both monologues-stories and other types of monologue speech (reading, retelling, description of an image). The results of the research not only contribute to the study of spontaneous oral speech and phonetics of Russian as a foreign language, but can also be useful in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language, especially in the Chinese audience, because they can help the Chinese to improve the effectiveness of real communication in Russian.

A typological survey of the phonological behavior of implosives: Implications for feature theories

This paper presents the first cross-linguistic investigation into the phonological behavior of implosive sounds. In many feature theories, implosives share features with obstruent sounds, plus some implosive-specific laryngeal feature. These feature theories predict, then, that implosives should pattern phonologically as a natural class with obstruents, to the exclusion of sonorants. We take a detailed look at the phonological patterning of implosives in six languages, and present results of a typological survey of implosives in 88 languages where implosives contrast with sonorants and obstruents at the same place of articulation. We find that, despite previous feature-based proposals which assume that implosives are obstruents, implosives pattern with sonorants to the exclusion of obstruents in 38% of languages in our sample. Another 32% of languages show mixed behavior, where implosives pattern with both obstruents and sonorants, depending on the specific phonological process involved. We discuss the implications of our results for the phonological featural representation of implosives, and propose future historical and phonetic studies to further illuminate the cross-linguistic behavior of implosive sounds.

An Experimental Phonetic Study on Discontinuity-Continuity Effects of Chinese Prosodic Boundaries at Different Levels under the Influence of Focus in Different Positions

An Experimental Phonetic Study on Discontinuity-Continuity Effects of Chinese Prosodic Boundaries at Different Levels under the Influence of Focus in Different Positions

An Investigation of EFL Students' Perception of Integration Between Morphology and Pronunciation in The English Language

The study aims to investigate the students' perception the integration between morphology and pronunciation in the English language. The problem of the study is that English language students study the change of pronunciation additions according to the laws of sound at the secondary stage, but at the university stage, despite their study of phonetics and phonology, the degree of their awareness of the overlap between morphology and phoneme is unknown. The study sample consists of (150) samples, including (90) males and (60) females. The results of the study shows that the students got a medium mark of perception the integration between morphology and pronunciation in the English language. According to the findings and results of the study it has been noticed that the ability of male and female students in morphological and phonological levels, are not equal. where the performance of the male students is better than the females in the diagnostic test. In this case the hypothesis which states that there is significant difference between the male and female students' level is accepted. Also, the results of the questionnaire show that the students' perception of integration is not good, as they do not realize the relationship between the two, and even they seem unaware of the teaching relationship at this stage, which increases the students' ability to interact, and the students are not aware of the vocabulary of the paragraphs mentioned in the questionnaire.

Pedagogical technologies in the study of English phonetics

The field of language education is ever-changing. Today’s language classrooms are vastly different from that of the mid-to-late 20th century (Eaton, 2010). In the realm of language learning, phonetics plays a critical role in developing accurate pronunciation and communication skills. With the advancement of pedagogical technologies, educators now have access to innovative tools and techniques that enhance the study of English phonetics. This article explores the significance of pedagogical technologies in the effective teaching and learning of English phonetics. There is also a discussion of phonetic issues occurring in speech production followed by explanations and corrections. The critical study of the advantages and downsides of the given approaches will be reviewed.

Northern Lisu vowels & tones, and their interactions

Lisu is a Sino-Tibetan language of Central Ngwi branch. It has multiple tonal contrasts and a typologically unusual vowel inventory. In this talk, I present an acoustic phonetic study based on data collected from eleven speakers of Northern Lisu, spoken in Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan, Southwestern China. The study focuses on the vowels and tones of the language, and their interaction. Northern Lisu has six tones, including four modal and two creaky-voiced tones; it has ten vowels, including five front vowels, four back vowels, and a central “fricative” vowel. Tone and vowel interaction is analyzed using Esling’s Laryngeal Articulator Model. Results show all speakers produce a lower f0 in the retracted vowel context, but it is not the case that all tones are creakier in this same vowel context. Simultaneously, male and female speakers show differences in terms of voice quality. Examination of the vowel space shows a reduction in many vowel contrasts. It is suggested that the vowel space is becoming regularised, with perceptually difficult contrasts being neutralised. In addition, it is shown that the fricative vowel contains minimal frication compared to the fricative consonants, and as such is better described as a syllabic retroflex approximant.

Application of Phonetics and Phonology in Secondary Level Education for Reducing Bengali Impact on English Pronunciation in Bangladesh

The manuscript aimed at delineating the importance of introducing phonetics and phonology in the ESL syllabus of primary and secondary level studies in Bangladesh so that learners of all levels could reduce Bengali's impact on English pronunciation. In terms of English as Lingua Franca (ELF), every mother tongue plays interference with English as a Second Language (ESL) pronunciation in each geographical community. In this respect, pronouncing English like the natives is a big challenge for non-native speakers around the world. The scenarios seem all alike in Bangladesh, where a major part of its teachers and learners of the English language cannot pronounce English with IPA standard like the native English speakers. Their excessive mother tongue-centred attitudes appear as hindrances on the way to standard accents. Thus, the learners of Bangladesh have been lagging behind the international communications. The research work was conducted in mixed method type where quantitative was predominating to make the article reliable. Tow data collection tools: questionnaire survey and content analysis were used in this study. The author hoped to conclude by showing that the study of phonetics and phonology at the elementary and secondary levels of ESL may be a more effective strategy to lessen Bengali interference in ESL pronunciation and that Bangladeshi students might be able to speak IPA standard ESL pronunciation. Similarly, if any country used the terminology mentioned above at the same levels of education, they might be able to lessen the influence of their native tongue on their pronunciation of ESL and use the IPA standard.