Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020-May 900-904 2020
It is well attested that vowels are longer before voiced than voiceless consonants in English. Vowel duration in productions by American English speakers (AE) is affected especially by the voicing of postvocalic consonants and the quality of the t...
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2020-October 1873-1877 2020
Research on Tohoku dialects, which is a variety of Japanese, has found that the voiceless stops /k/ and /t/ in the intervocalic position are frequently realized as voiced stops. However, the phenomenon has mainly been judged aurally in the Japanes...
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2017-August 359-363 2017
Alveolar flaps are non-contrastive allophonic variants of alveolar stops in American English. A lexical decision experiment was conducted with Japanese learners of English (JE) to investigate whether second-language (L2) learners are sensitive to ...
Sophia University
Faculty of Foreign Studies