This paper presents iSpyU, a system that shows the feasibility of recognition of natural
speech content played on a phone during conference calls (Skype, Zoom, etc) using a …

Abstract Bolinger (1978: 475), one of the foremost authorities on prosody of a generation
ago, said that “Intonation is a half-tamed savage. To understand the tamed or linguistically …

Final Shughni plosives tend to be released and aspirated, at least in citation forms. Data
from 14 Shughni speakers showed that underlyingly voiced plosives have a shorter period …

Scholarly accounts of infant cry began in earnest in the late 1960s. Subsequent studies have
focused on creating a typology of cries in order to correlate them with specific pediatric …

Ever since Fry (1958) ranked the acoustic correlates of lexical stress as F0> Duration>
Intensity, a controversy has ensued. Some replication studies have agreed with Fry's …

With the growth of communication technology, reliability and security of communication
devices became a challenging job. Voice biometrics are becoming increasingly popular as a …

It is an honor to write this paper for Dr. Gilbert Ansre's festschrift. He was my mentor when I
was doing my Ph. D. in linguistics. In the summers, the United Bible Societies would send …

In most acoustic phonetic studies, researchers go to great lengths to specify that the
participants do not have any speech impediments. These specifications are meant to show …

Do speakers produce the same word differently if its grammatical function changes? The
word is used to provide some answers. This word is optimal because it is one of a few …