The current study investigates acoustic correlates of word stress in Papuan Malay. This
language is claimed to exhibit word stress, although empirical evidence is lacking …

In recent decades, the interest in speech sciences for casual conversations has increased,
and researchers have begun to investigate the characteristics of spontaneous and casual …

Research on Western Armenian (WA) has described it as having a contrast between
voiceless aspirated stops and voiced stops (Fairbanks 1948; Vaux 1998; Baronian 2017) …

The question of how listeners deal with different phonetic variant forms for the same words in
perception has sparked great interest over the past few decades, especially with regard to …

Finding phonetic correlates of rhotics as a natural class has been elusive, leading to the
suggestion that any class-based relationship between different rhotic categories is purely …

The “hyper-variation” present in rhotic sounds makes them particularly apt for sociophonetic
research. This paper investigates the variable realization of the voiced alveolar-trill …

This paper provides a first acoustic analysis of the lexical tones found in Kera'a, an
endangered language spoken in the North-East of India (Arunachal Pradesh). Minimal …

Lo studio strumentale della dimensione fonetica del parlato condotta negli ultimi decenni ha
messo in nuova luce il ruolo della variabilità nello sviluppo e nell'organizzazione delle …

In copertina:“Evangelista, or letter-writer, and his clients”. Immagine tratta da Brown, Robert.
1894. The Countries of the World: being a popular description of the various continents …

The present research project examines Third Language Acquisition (L3 English) within the
context of Italian-medium primary schools in bilingual South Tyrol, Italy, taking early-stage …