Sentence examples for phonetic variation from inspiring English sources

This study adds to the results of the production studies by showing that a significant relationship exists between phonetic variation and social judgements.

We show that words with many phonological neighbors tend to be phonetically reduced (shortened in duration and produced with more centralized vowels) in connected speech, when other predictors of phonetic variation are brought under statistical control.

The results also show that listeners are sensitive to phonetic variation in Glasgow, and crucially, that they are easily able to categorise this variation according to associated conceptions of local social identities.

In order to investigate the production/perception link of listeners in Glasgow, we carried out a matched guise experiment designed to test the association between fine phonetic variation and social judgements.

Here we examine phonetic variation as a function of phonological neighborhood density, capitalizing on the fact that words from dense phonological neighborhoods tend to be relatively difficult to recognize, yet easy to produce.

A further example of a misalignment between production and perception is subtracted phonetic variation that is erroneously reassigned to and perceptually integrated in the wrong speech unit, for example, the adjacent vowel instead of the adjacent consonant.

This, Kuhl proposes, may help babies learn the features that make each sound special and to ignore the phonetic variations that fall within a given vowel sound.

The [D] category was more likely to appear before an unrounded vowel/glide, and varied widely, with seven different phonetic variations observed.

They concluded that it uses a simple grammar consisting of eight phonetic variations of short, frequency-modulated "chirps"—each representing varying messages and five longer constant frequency "whistles".

Our results are the first report of a neural signature for group membership based on phonetic variations of the same language.

High AQ neurotypicals might show impaired abilities to perceptually compensate for phonetic context-induced variation in speech if the processing of phonetic context information involves the same mechanism that triggers deficits in integrating information into a meaningful whole associated with ASC individuals.