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Labialization of Unstressed Vowels in Russian: Phonetic and Perceptual Evidence. / Кочаров, Даниил Александрович; Евграфова, Карина Владимировна; Евдокимова, Вера Вячеславовна; Морсковатых, Мария Сергеевна.
In: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Vol. 11096, 2018, p. 301-310.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Labialization of Unstressed Vowels in Russian: Phonetic and Perceptual Evidence
AU - Кочаров, Даниил Александрович
AU - Евграфова, Карина Владимировна
AU - Евдокимова, Вера Вячеславовна
AU - Морсковатых, Мария Сергеевна
N1 - Funding Information: Supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant 18-
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The unrounded Russian vowel phonemes are occasionally pronounced as rounded in unstressed positions. This can be observed when one of the following vowels is rounded. The aim of current research is to define how strong this phonological process is and what factors trigger the process. The experimental results showed this tendency in speech of young adults. Vowel labialization occurs in about a third of non-immediately-pretonic and post-tonic syllables in connected speech. While the roundedness of vowels does not affect word intelligibility, it is clearly perceived when vowels are perceived in isolation or within a syllable. The tendency should be taken into account in developing probabilistic dictionaries for automatic speech recognition and G2P procedures.
AB - The unrounded Russian vowel phonemes are occasionally pronounced as rounded in unstressed positions. This can be observed when one of the following vowels is rounded. The aim of current research is to define how strong this phonological process is and what factors trigger the process. The experimental results showed this tendency in speech of young adults. Vowel labialization occurs in about a third of non-immediately-pretonic and post-tonic syllables in connected speech. While the roundedness of vowels does not affect word intelligibility, it is clearly perceived when vowels are perceived in isolation or within a syllable. The tendency should be taken into account in developing probabilistic dictionaries for automatic speech recognition and G2P procedures.
KW - Labialization
KW - Perception
KW - Russian
KW - Spectral features
KW - Vowels
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UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/labialization-unstressed-vowels-russian-phonetic-perceptual-evidence
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-99579-3_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-99579-3_32
M3 - Article
VL - 11096
SP - 301
EP - 310
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SN - 0302-9743
ER -
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