The practical goal of pronunciation training is to acquire an intelligible enough
pronunciation, not a native-like pronunciation. In our studies [1],[2], we proposed a method …

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 …

In recent developments, speech intelligibility has been improved through an optimal
trapezoidal transformation function, which performed normal to Lombard speech conversion …

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 …

Dry cough has been recognized as a common symptom of coronavirus respiratory diseases,
emphasizing the importance of accurately identifying and classifying cough types to mitigate …

Abstract Richards (2012) and Zhang (nd) report that some Chinese L2 speakers of English
confuse/l/and/n/. Koffi (2019: 249-50) indicates that some acoustic correlates …

This dissertation addresses the perception and production of American English
monophthongs by Palestinian Arabic (PA) learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) …

This paper examines the acoustic phonetic properties of the stop consonants [p, b, t, d, k, g,
k͡p, g͡b] in Anyi, an Akan language spoken in eastern Côte d'Ivoire and western Ghana …

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 …

The present study investigates the effect of Arabic lexical stress predictability in producing
English lexical stress by Yemeni EFL undergraduates and native Hadhrami Arabic (HA) …