Sentence examples for acoustic distance from inspiring English sources

However, this does not address the potential role played by physical acoustic distance in these discrimination judgments, since phonologically similar sounds are also acoustically similar.

The mean vector of the central state of each phone model is selected, and the Euclidean distance between all the mean vectors is calculated to have an estimation of the acoustic distance.

JC is the acoustic join cost, defined as the acoustic distance between the units to be concatenated and is calculated using acoustic features at the boundaries of the units to be concatenated: fundamental frequency, spectrum, energy, and duration specification.

It was hypothesized that the acoustic distance between two vowel categories is smaller when the dimension along which the two vowels differ is allophonic (e.g., vowel nasality in American English, vowel tenseness in Quebec French) compared to when it is phonemic (e.g., vowel tenseness in American English, vowel nasality in Quebec French).

In our case, the penalty assigned to an insertion/deletion of a phone of the syllable is set to 0.5, and the penalty for replacing one phone by another can vary from 0 to 1 according to the previously estimated acoustic distance between the two phones.

The joint relationship of phonological distance and acoustic distance to discrimination performance was examined via stepwise linear multivariate regression.

The relation between acoustic distances of the vowel pairs and discrimination errors (10 vowel pairs repeated in 15 consonantal contexts, for a total of 150 pairs, Figure 4a), was significant (Mantel test, r = −0.82, n = 150, p<0.0001), with fewer discrimination errors produced as acoustic distances increased.

The acoustic distances between two rotated vowels with three formants (all vowels except 'i') were estimated from their Euclidean distances in a space defined by the center frequencies of their three lowest formants.

If, on the other hand, the sounds are initially processed by the native language phonological system, there should be an independent effect of phonological distance on the discrimination of such sounds phonological distances should explain a significant proportion of the variance in discrimination performance in addition to that explained by acoustic distances.

Physical acoustic distances for each pair of vowels were defined by the differences in center frequencies of the three lowest energy bands or formants in their Discrete Fourier Transform spectrum, measured in the steady-state portion at the center of each vowel.

To test for the habitat-selection model, we compared matrices of morphology and acoustic distances (acoustic measurements) with habitat-related (climate and topography) distances.