古止攝元音[i]演變為舌尖前高元音[]是中古以來漢語語音一項重大演變，學界一般稱之為「舌尖化」現象。迄今為止，對其演變過程，尤其是對[i]音變後音值的考察尚少見到。 / 本文據實地調查觀察發現：惠陽淡水客家話止攝開口三等[i]元音正處於演變的過程中：老派基本不變，中派開始發生變化，新派完成部分音變；[i]音變的條件為與音、零聲母相拼；音變的過程先從音開始，再擴至零聲母。通過實驗語音學的分析，本文發現惠陽淡水客家話[i]音變後的音值不是一般漢語方言記錄中的[]，而是[]；[i]不是「前化」、「高化」或「舌尖化」，而是「央化」；[i]與零聲母相拼發生音變，更會衍生濁擦音[z]。這種音變以「詞匯擴散」的方式傳播，並與年齡、性別這兩項社會因素有密切關係。 / 在上述淡水客家話[i]音變後之音值性質分析基礎上，再根據《普通話水平測試實施綱要》内之音檔，考察普通話中「」的音值。經過實驗分析後，本文認爲普通話的「」其實就是[]。漢語看似無[]，但[]只是被「」這層假象覆蓋住。 / 希望本文上述的觀察研究能為漢語方言中古止攝元音[i]的歷史演變研究提供一種全新的思考和假設。 / The sound change of vowel [i] to [] of Zhi-Group 止攝 has been an important issue in Chinese phonetics since medieval times, which is commonly called "apicalization" by the academia. Up to now, there are very few studies on the process of the sound change of [i], especially the exact phonetic value of [i] after sound change, can be found. / According to the results of our field work, [i] of Division III 三等, Open Mouth of Zhi-Group 止攝開口 is undergoing sound change in the Hakka Dialect in Danshui, Huiyang. The phonetic value of [i] basically does not change among the members of the old generation, but changing among the members of the middle generation and has changed among the members of the new generation. The phonetic valueof [i] changes when it combines with sibilants and silent initial. The process of sound change starts from sibilants and followed by silent initial. With the analysis of Experimental Phonetics, we find that the exact phonetic value of [i] after sound changeis not []. Even [] is found in many Chinese dialect records, the exact phonetic value should be []. The nature of the sound change of [i] is not "fronting", "raising" nor "apicalized", it should be "centralized". Under the influence of sound change, when [i] is syllabic, voiced alveolar fricative [z] will be produced. The sound change of [i] is spreading by the process of "lexical diffusion" and is closely related to the social factors of age and gender. / We will also examine the exact phonetic value of "" in Putonghua according to Putonghua Shuiping Ceshi Shishi Gangyao 《普通話水平測試綱要》. After experimental analysis, we find that "" should be [] instead. Actually [] exists in Chinese, but it is "covered" by "". / Hope our findings can provide the stuides on the historial change of [i] of Zhi-Group in Chinese dialects with a different thinking angle and a whole new htpothesis. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 黃韻瑜. / Thesis (M.Phil.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-100). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Huang Yunyu.

Every Japanese high school student studies English for at least six years. However, the results of this study, especially in speaking, are poor. In the present study, educational, sociocultural, and linguistic obstacles to learning for the Japanese student are considered. An educational system oriented toward passing college and university entrance examinations has distorted English curriculum. Furthermore, English teachers in Japan lack proficiency in the language. The teaching staffs and materials of language schools are poorly regulated. Concern with relative status, group identification, and loss of face acts as a deterrent to learning. For many learners the wrong type of motivation may exist. Consideration of phonological obstacles was limited to the area of rhythm (speed, stress, word grouping, pausing). An error analysis of the speech of twenty-five Japanese students of college age was carried out using recordings of an accent inventory. Speech was recorded both aurally and visually. No comparison of English and Japanese rhythm was made either aurally or visually. The students' speech was also rated by three native speakers for the amount of foreign accent in the area of rhythm. Three possible causes of errors were considered: language transfer, intralingual interference, and the universal hierarchy of difficulty. The source of the majority of errors was found to be due to interference. The Japanese were found to have problems in segmentation and stressing due primarily to the fact that English is a stress-timed language and Japanese is a syllable-timed one. The number of types of errors and total phonation and pause time correlated with the foreign accent rating. The best solution to the educational obstacles facing the Japanese English learner would be the divorcement of English from the entrance examinations and a reeducation of English teachers. Native-speaking English teachers should be made aware of the cultural constraints which limit the Japanese student's learning. Future teaching programs and materials should place more emphasis on intonation and rhythm for the Japanese English learner, particularly in the grouping of words.

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Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-11-21T08:57:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Cristina Sacchi.pdf: 2435842 bytes, checksum: 661f9992c5fb64594719905dd71601f8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-21T08:57:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Cristina Sacchi.pdf: 2435842 bytes, checksum: 661f9992c5fb64594719905dd71601f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-26 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / This dissertation aims to study how bilinguals perceive English vowels. The subjects are students from a Canadian school in Sao Paulo who speak both English and Brazilian Portuguese fluently. The English language will be considered a foreign language (FL) in this context, because the subjects learn and use the language within a country in which English is not the first language. In the process of learning a new language some differences in terms of (FL) foreign language sounds may not be perceived due to interference of the first language (L1). Assimilation of L2 to L1 sounds may occur as the Speech Learning Model states, which explains the importance of formal teaching to train students to improve their fluency and intelligibility. The goal of this project is to investigate how bilingual speakers perceive English vowels using perception identification and discrimination tests. The judges are 27 students who study at a Canadian school in Sao Paulo, and whose L1 is Brazilian Portuguese and FL is English, and their average age is 9 years old. A Canadian native speaker of English at the age of 50 recorded the stimuli for the perception test containing the English vowels analyzed in this study. The hypothesis is that the subjects will not be able to discriminate between some sounds contrasts and will associate different sound pairs to only one Portuguese sound (Speech Learning Model, Flege). We conducted an experiment and analyzed the stimuli acoustic-articulatory characteristics based on acoustic inspection, formants and durations of the vowels were measured. The software PRAAT developed by Paul Boersma and Weenink from Amsterdam University was used to analyze the data collected. The results indicated that the identification task showed more accuracy compared with the discrimination task. The assimilation of two sounds in English (med-low and low vowels) to one sound in Portuguese (med-low vowel) confirmed the hypothesis that the absence of perceptual targets confers difficulties to the speakers in the production of sounds in a foreign language. The results confirmed the Speech Learning Model hypothesis. This research aims to contribute to the pronunciation teaching in a FL, because an accurate sound production may prevent communication problem, and it is essential for learner’s development in terms of oral communication and fluency / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo investigar a percepção de sons vocálicos da língua inglesa, variante canadense, por estudantes de uma escola bilíngue canadense da cidade de São Paulo em contexto de Inglês como Língua Estrangeira (LE). Ao sermos expostos a uma LE, segundo o Speech Learning Model, certas características dessa língua podem não ser percebidas devido à interferência da L1 (Primeira Língua, Língua Nativa ou Língua Materna) na LE. Dado isso, destaca-se a importância do trabalho com contrastes sonoros para que aprendizes possam melhorar a percepção e consequentemente a produção dos sons da LE. Como hipótese de pesquisa postulamos que os aprendizes não discriminam certos contrastes e assimilam pares de sons distintivos do Inglês a um som do Português. A investigação da percepção de sons vocálicos da língua inglesa nesta pesquisa foi realizada por meio de testes de discriminação e identificação, tendo, como juízes da pesquisa, 27 alunos de uma escola canadense em São Paulo com idade média de 9 anos, os quais possuem o Português Brasileiro (PB) como L1 e Inglês como LE. Os estímulos que contêm as vogais, utilizadas nesta pesquisa para a construção do teste de percepção, foram gravados por uma canadense, falante nativa de Inglês, com 50 anos de idade. Medições das frequências dos formantes (F1, F2 e F3) em Hz e de duração em ms das vogais dos estímulos dos testes de percepção foram efetuadas com o auxílio do software PRAAT e os resultados do teste de percepção submetidos à análise estatística multidimensional. Os resultados mostraram que a tarefa de identificação apresentou um nível de acerto maior do que a de discriminação. O contraste entre as vogais anteriores média-baixa e a baixa do Inglês foi o que causou maior dificuldade de discriminação aos juízes do teste de percepção. Os resultados confirmam a hipótese do Speech Learning Model sobre a assimilação de sons da LE a sons da L1. Diante do apresentado, esta pesquisa contribuiu com subsídios para o ensino de pronúncia em língua estrangeira, pois dificuldades de percepção levam comumente à produção dos sons de uma língua de forma inadequada e podem causar problemas de comunicação. Consideramos que o desenvolvimento da percepção de contrastes sonoros da LE tem repercussões positivas para a evolução dos aprendizes em termos de compreensão, comunicação oral e fluência na LE

Ce travail se focalise sur le parler du tarifit de la province de Nador, afin d’étudier la gémination dans cette variante du berbère, parlée au Maroc. Il s’agit d’une investigation articulatoire cinéradiographique et acoustique. Un aperçu général du système phonologique du tarifit est proposé. Dans la revue critique de l’état de la question, nous avons tenté, d’abord, de montrer les différents arguments relatifs à la représentation des géminées en un seul segment ou en une suite de deux segments. Nous avons ensuite évoqué les débats contradictoires sur les notions de tension et de gémination. Notre recherche est conduite dans le cadre du paradigme de la perturbation et des réajustements, en variant la vitesse d’élocution. Les résultats principaux dans le domaine acoustique montrent, pour toutes les consonnes, simples et géminées, produites en vitesse d'élocution normale ou rapide, que la durée de la tenue consonantique est l’indice principal qui permet de les distinguer. Au niveau articulatoire, l’étude du timing des paramètres articulatoires indique, entre autres, que c’est le contact apical, vélaire et uvulaire, plus long pour la géminée, qui est le paramètre préférentiel de la distinction phonologique simple vs. géminée. L’analyse des vues de profil donne les résultats suivants en ce qui concerne l’étendue de contact (mm) : a) l’étendue de contact des occlusives est systématiquement plus importante pour les géminées que pour les simples ; b) l’étendue de contact augmente de la consonne apical, au vélaire (réalisée plutôt palatale), puis à l’uvulaire. Les résultats sont discutés en termes de relations articulatori - acoustiques. / This work focuses on tarifit of the provinces of Nador, in order to study gemination in this variant of Berber spoken in Morocco. This is an acoustic and articulatory X-ray investigation. A general overview of the tarifit phonological system is proposed. In a critical review of the literature, we tried, first, to show the different arguments concerning representation of geminates as one or as a sequence of two segments. We then discussed the contradictory debates on the concepts of tension and gemination. Our research is carried out within the perturbation and readjustments paradigm, by varying speech rates. Main results in the acoustic domain show for all consonants, singletons and geminates, produced in normal or fast speech, that consonantal closure is the main cue that allows distinguishing them. On the articulatory level, the study of the timing of articulatory parameters indicates, among other things, that it is the apical, velar and uvular contact, longer for geminates, which is the preferred parameter of the singleton vs. geminate phonological distinction. Analysis of profile views gives the following results regarding contact extent (mm) : a) contact extent for plosives are systematically larger for geminates than for singletons ; b) contact extent increases as one goes from the apical consonant to the velar (rather palatal) consonant, then to the uvular consonant. Results are discussed in terms of articulatory - acoustic relations.

Orientador: Plínio Almeida Barbosa / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T03:40:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Passetti_RenataRegina_M.pdf: 2198292 bytes, checksum: 75f3471d8eeffbfb0346d7705e4ea136 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Esta dissertação avalia os efeitos causados ao sinal da fala pela transmissão telefônica de linhas móveis e, com isso, busca determinar o grau de modificação fonético-acústica intralocutor causado pelo filtro de banda do canal telefônico à voz habitual e os efeitos que a transmissão telefônica exerce sobre as vogais orais do português brasileiro, pelo estudo de parâmetros acústicos que são afetados por esse tipo de transmissão. As análises investigaram quais características acústicas eram modificadas e quais permaneciam inalteradas na fala de indivíduos diante da utilização de telefones celulares quando comparadas a gravações diretas. O corpus constitui-se de gravações de 10 locutores do sexo masculino, realizadas de forma simultânea nas condições via celular e direta, pelo posicionamento de um microfone em frente aos sujeitos enquanto falavam ao celular. As vogais orais do português brasileiro foram transcritas e segmentadas e, posteriormente, foi utilizado o script ForensicDataTrecking para extração automática das seguintes classes de parâmetros: frequência dos três primeiros formantes (F1, F2 e F3), frequência fundamental (F0), ênfase espectral, frequência de base da fundamental (baseline) e duração interpicos de F0 presentes no discurso. Foram conduzidas análises acústicas com o objetivo investigar os efeitos da transmissão telefônica sobre as vogais orais do português brasileiro, sobre os locutores e no espaço vocálico dos locutores. As análises foram validadas estatisticamente. Para a análise do efeito da transmissão telefônica sobre as vogais orais do português brasileiro, os resultados revelam alterações nas frequências do primeiro e o terceiro formante de, aproximadamente, 14%, na condição telefônica. Em relação às frequências do segundo formante, os resultados da análise de dispersão mostraram que a transmissão telefônica agiu de forma a aumentar artificialmente as frequências de vogais com baixos valores de F2 e a diminuir as frequências de vogais com altos valores de F2. Dos parâmetros acústicos investigados na análise dos efeitos da transmissão telefônica sobre os locutores, apenas a baseline e a duração interpicos de F0 não apresentaram diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre as duas condições de gravação, indicando robustez aos efeitos da transmissão telefônica e podendo ser considerados como parâmetros eficazes na análise forense. Esta análise revelou, também, que a transmissão telefônica agia de maneira distinta nos sujeitos, o que permitiu que fossem agrupados a depender do parâmetro investigado. A análise do efeito telefônico no espaço vocálico dos sujeitos complementou os resultados das análises anteriores. De modo geral, observou-se um abaixamento global do espaço vocálico na gravação telefônica, influenciado pelo aumento nas frequências de F1. A diminuição dos valores de F2 para as vogais anteriores e o aumento nos valores deste formante para vogais posteriores comprimiu o espaço vocálico da maioria dos sujeitos. As modificações nas disposições das vogais têm implicações perceptuais, uma vez que o abaixamento e redução do espaço vocálico fizeram com que as vogais se situassem proximamente a regiões centrais, podendo soar como mais abertas no telefone celular / Abstract: This dissertation evaluates the effects to speech signal due to telephone transmission of mobile phones and seeks to determine the degree of intra-speaker acoustic-phonetic modification caused by the mobile phone band-pass filter to the speech signal and the telephone transmission effects over the Brazilian Portuguese oral vowels by the study of the acoustic parameters affected by this kind of transmission. The analysis investigated which are the acoustic cues which are modified and which cues remain undifferentiated in the speaker's speech by the use of a mobile phone in comparison to direct recordings. The corpus used consists of simultaneous recordings of 10 male speakers in two conditions: via mobile phone and face-to-face, by placing a microphone directly in front of the subjects. The Brazilian Portuguese oral vowels were segmented and transcribed and the ForensicDataEvaluator script was used to automatically extract the following acoustic parameters: three first formants frequencies (F1, F2 and F3), median of fundamental frequency (F0), spectral emphasis, fundamental frequency baseline and F0 inter-peaks duration. The acoustic analyses aimed at investigating the telephone transmission effects over the Brazilian Portuguese oral vowels, over the speakers and at the speakers¿ vowel space. The analyses were supported statistically. The analysis of the telephone transmission effect over the Brazilian Portuguese oral vowels showed variations of 14% in the frequencies of the first and the third formants. The analysis of the scatter plot of F2 values showed that the mobile phone band-pass filtering has an effect of shifting upwards vowels with low values of F2 and shifting downwards vowels with high values of F2. For the analysis of the telephone transmission effects over the speaker only the acoustic parameters "fundamental frequency baseline" and "F0 inter-peaks duration" did not show any difference statistically significant between the two recording conditions, demonstrating robustness to the telephone transmission effects, which make them able to be considered as powerful parameters for forensic analysis. This analysis also revealed that the telephone transmission affects the speakers in different ways, which set them into different groups of speakers depending on the parameter analyzed. The analysis of the telephone effect in the speakers¿ vowel space shed some light on the previous analyses. In general, the increase of the F1 values in the mobile phone situation caused a global downward displacement of the vowel space. The decrease of the F2 values for the front vowels and the increase of the values of this formant for back vowels reduced the area of the vowel space for the most of the subjects. The vowels rearrangement at the vowel space in the telephone situation has some perceptual implications, since the lowering and reduction of the vowel space made the vowels be placed at its center, which could result in hearing these vowels as more open over the mobile phone / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestra em Linguística

MA / Department of Communication and Applied Language Studies / Orthographic symbols of languages represent specific speech sounds with their specific phonetic qualities. This research aimed at analysing orthographic representations of murmured speech sounds in the Xitsonga orthography. The qualitative approach was employed to examine the production of murmured speech sounds and their orthographic representations in Xitsonga. The analysis was based on data collected from interviews with speakers of the Xitsonga language, Xitsonga educators and lecturers who are themselves Xitsonga-speaking, Xitsonga authors and Xitsonga subject specialists, and also from existing literature by Xitsonga authors and language scholars. The study made recommendations that will help the development and revitalisation of the Xitsonga language and also benefit the speakers of the language as well as scholars and linguists.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this assignment durational features in singular nasals and complex nasal combinations in Xhosa are studied. The focus is on durational differences between single nasals, nasals in combination with consonants and nasal combinations featuring a morpheme boundary. Nouns were selected with these INCI-combinations in various syllable positions in a word. Data from one mother-tongue speaker were analysed and statistically processed and internally compared. It was found that the duration of a singular /m/ and /n/ preceding a morpheme boundary was longer than the corresponding nasal in a final syllable without an intervening morpheme boundary. When an obstruent appears in conjunction with a labial and alveolar nasal, the total duration of these INCI-combinations are longer than those of the singular /m/ and /n/. The presence of a morpheme boundary after complex nasals seemingly has no influence on the duration of the nasal or on the rest of the segments in the syllable. The duration of the syllabic /m/ is longer than that of the singular labial /m/. As secondary findings sequential aspects of nasals are discussed. In this study theoretical arguments are offered where possible in support of the above mentioned results. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie werkstuk word duurverskynsels by enkelvoudige nasale en komplekse nasaalverbindings in Xhosa bestudeer. Daar word gefokus op die duurverskillle tussen enkelvoudige nasale, nasale in kombinasie met konsonante en nasaalverbindings waar 'n morfeemgrens voorkom. Naamwoorde is gesoek met die INK/-kombinasies in die laaste sillabeposisie, voorfinale en enige sillabeposisie vorentoe in die woord. Die data van een moedertaalspreker is ontleed en statisties verwerk. Die resultate hiervan is ook onderling met mekaar vergelyk. Daar is onder meer bevind dat die duur van 'n enkelvoudige /m/ en /n/ relatief langer is voor 'n morfeemgrens as die ooreenstemmende nasaal in 'n finale sillabe sonder 'n morfeemgrens. Wanneer 'n stopklank saam met 'n labiale en alveolere nasaal verskyn, is die totale duur van die INK/-kombinasies langer as die enkelvoudige /m/ en /n/ s'n. Die teenwoordigheid van 'n morfeemgrens na komplekse nasale het skynbaar geen invloed op die duur van die nasaal en of die res van die segmente in die sillabe nie. Die sillabiese /m/ se duur is langer as die enkelvoudige labiale /m/. In die sekondere bevindinge word sekere opeenvolgings van die nasaal bespreek. In hierdie studie word, waar moontlik, sekere teoretiese argumente aangebied vir onder meer bogenoemde resultate.