Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively
remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a …

Southwestern Mandarin is one of the most important modern Chinese dialects, with over 270
million speakers. One of its most noticeable phonological features is an inconsistent …

This study investigates the relative perceptual distinction of the [n] vs [l] contrast in different
vowel contexts ([_a] vs [_i]) and tonal contexts (high-initial such as HH, HL, vs low-initial …

This dissertation presents the verbal morphology of the Yonghe variety of Qiang through the
lens of Radical Construction Grammar. Yonghe Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken …

Pomerano is the name for a group of unroofed Eastern Pomeranian varieties spoken in
several parts of Brazil. The speakers of this language display an astonishing amount of …

Abstract (EN) Word stress is crucial for language perception and production as it enables
lexical access and speech segmentation. Phonetically, word stress is cued through higher …

Word stress is crucial for language perception and production as it enables lexical access
and speech segmentation. Phonetically, word stress is cued through higher pitch, duration …

This study presents an instrumental phonetic account of the intelligibility of Saudi Spoken
English (SSE) consonants. Few studies have investigated the spoken consonants of highly …

Developing credible stimuli for language experiments unites psycholinguistics and
sociolinguistics–the stimuli need to reduce confounds while mirroring the investigated …