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

Purpose The purpose of this study was twofold:(a) to identify a set of communication-based
predictors (including both acoustic and gestural variables) of masculinity–femininity ratings …

Accentuation is encoded by both durational and pitch cues in French. While previous
research agrees that the sole presence of pitch cues is sufficient to encode accentuation in …

This study applies Fry’ s (1958) seminal methodology to investigate how Arabic
speakers of English encode and rank F0, intensity, and duration in their pronunciation of …

The current thesis investigates second language (L2) prosodic perception and how it can be
influenced by perceptual training (PT). It has previously been shown that Anglophone …

Formant frequencies of a vowel are generally extracted from midpoints or central sections on
the time axis. Nasal vowels present a challenge for obtaining stable formant frequencies, as …

Background: Voice and communication modification training is a critical aspect of the gender
affirmation process for many transgender people. Incongruence between communication …