NDLI: An Acoustic Comparison of Vowel Length Contrasts in Standard Arabic, Japanese and Thai

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Tsukada, K.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	In our earlier perception study, we observed that familiarity with first language (L1) phonemic length contrasts in Japanese does not transfer optimally into an unknown language, Arabic. We hypothesized that this finding is related to cross-language differences in how vowel length contrasts are phonetically realized. The present study compares vowel length contrasts that are phonemic in three typologically unrelated languages, i.e., Standard Arabic, Japanese and Thai, in an attempt to understand the extent to which vowel length contrasts are similar or dissimilar in these languages. Acoustic measurements showed short and long categories were clearly differentiated in all three languages and the short-to-long ratio did not substantially differ across languages. This suggests that listeners attend to more than just acoustic vowel duration in making perceptual judgments on short vs. long vowels.
Starting Page	76
Ending Page	79
File Size	369350
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769539041
DOI	10.1109/IALP.2009.25
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-12-07
Publisher Place	Singapore
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Arabic Natural languages Speech Acoustic measurements Thai Japanese Vowel length Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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An Acoustic Comparison of Vowel Length Contrasts in Standard Arabic, Japanese and Thai