This paper examines the wide spectrum of phonetic properties associated with the
phonological distinctions between consonant classes such as/p, t, k/and/b, d, g/in a great …

Japanese is often called a 'mora-timed'language, and contrasted with 'stress-timed'or
'syllable-timed'languages. The definition of what constitutes mora-timing has undergone …

We provide evidence for rhythmic classifications of speech from duration measurements.
Our investigation differs from previous studies in two ways. First, we do not relate speech …

This book contains some of the material which originally appeared in my Ph. D. thesis
Lexical Phonology, submitted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it can hardly …

This study compares phonetic implementation of the stop voicing contrast produced in
Arabic by Saudi Arabians and by both Americans and Saudis in English. The English stops …

Foreign accent is often thought to be the result of an age‐related diminution in the ability to
learn to pronounce languages. Existing studies of L2 pronunciation, however, do not seem …

German is well known for its neutralization of the voicing contrast in word-final obstruents.
However, acoustic analysis of ten pairs of German words produced by ten native speakers …

In most languages, vowels are longer before voiced than before voiceless consonants.
Attempts to explain this vowel-length difference in terms of assumed physical or …

This study investigates the contribution of the temporal patterning of speech to the reduced
intelligibility of foreign-accented utterances. Short English phrases spoken by a native …

Chomsky and Halle (1968) and many formal linguists rely on the notion of a universally
available phonetic space defined in discrete time. This assumption plays a central role in …