Sentence examples for phonetic influence from inspiring English sources

In this respect, it is possible to analyse Wagiman's vowel inventory as historically deriving from a three-vowel system common among the languages from further south, but with the phonetic influence of a typically northern five-vowel system.

While it retained relatively few Celtic words, the developing language had its vocabulary greatly enriched by Germanic borrowings, and its phonetic development was influenced by Germanic speech habits.

Using integrated MEG/EEG and MRI data we found that, within a network identified by 40 Hz gamma phase locking, activation in the supramarginal gyrus associated with wordform representation influences phonetic processing in the posterior superior temporal gyrus during a period of time associated with lexical processing.

We are aware of the problem that non-significant phonetic differences may still influence perception while the mere statistical significance of phonetic differences does not grant perceptual consequences.

A more complex phasing model can of course be built using, for example, CART trees by identifying phonetic or phonological factors influencing the observed lag between visible and audible traces of articulatory gestures.

So and Best (2014) also found substantially different degrees of discrimination among UC pairings for nonnative perception of Mandarin tone contrasts, which they suggested was due to the listeners being substantially influenced by phonetic characteristics, not just by phonological categories (i.e., phonetic similarities between categories also play an important role).

This result provides direct evidence that lexical processes influence lower level phonetic perception, and demonstrates the potential value of combining Granger causality analyses and high spatiotemporal resolution multimodal imaging data to explore the functional architecture of cognition.

But in situations like that, both past and present, the intervening period of extensive bilingualism and the concomitant use of two languages has its effect on the changes taking place in the dominant language, which is influenced by the phonetic and grammatical composition of the speakers' former language.

If the present findings are not confined to Latin note names but rather describe a universal phenomenon, they would suggest that the incidence of AP in a population can be influenced by the phonetic content of the note names.

Both phonetic similarity and fast transitions influenced accurate speech perception for RD children as well as CA controls.

This approach enabled us to disentangle the influence of fast transitions (stop consonants) and phonetic similarity (number of different phonetic features).