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

Abstract The dialect of Northern Minnesota English (NMNE) has been acknowledged as a
leading suspect in the search for the Minnesota accent. The majority of the commenters who …

Fricatives are found in all world languages (Maddieson 1984: 41). Similarities in mouth
geometry and in their aerodynamic characteristics have made them the favorite segments for …

The vast majority of African linguists still rely on their naked ears to determine pitch registers
and tone rules. In recent years, timid efforts have been made by some to complement their …

This study examines acoustic properties of English post-alveolar affricates and fricatives/ʃ,
ʒ, tʃ, dʒ/produced by Korean learners of English. Five Korean learners of English and three …

Abstract The Minnesota dialect of American English is often confused with some vague
“Canadian English”(Bartholdi 2015).[1] The current study aims to identify precisely which …

Speech is the most basic and reliable form of communication. In signal processing, speech
signal carrying the message is represented in the form of an acoustic waveform. Having an …

This study is an acoustic phonetic analysis of Brazilian Portuguese English (BPE) vowels
produced by seven Brazilian students. The research was carried out in the Spring of 2016 …

Bondu So (Dogon, Mali) displays [ATR] vowel harmony that interacts with rootfinal
consonants. This study provides evidence from five verb paradigms to show that the quality …

This thesis serves two purposes. The first is to describe Saudi-accented English vowels
acoustically. The second is to rely on the measurements obtained from the acoustic phonetic …