#phonemes — Public Fediverse posts

The latest #preprint from my team: "Mapping the spectrotemporal regions influencing perception of French stop consonants in noise". I will tell you more about this research when it gets published, but here's a glimpse of our main finding. This colorful figure shows the acoustic cues listeners rely on to differentiate the sounds /aba/, /ada/, /aga/, /apa/, /ata/, /aka/. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.25.600732v1 #psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics @cognition @linguistics #phonetics #phonemes

The Vocabulary of Sperm Whales
https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-vocabulary-of-sperm-whales.html

"Particular patterns of rhythm and tempo are more likely to be combined with rubato and/or extra clicks than others, and many potential patterns just aren't used at all. This also resembles the way that individual #phonemes are used in human #languages, with no #language containing every possible consonant... the researchers conclude that there are not just 21 'words' in the vocabulary of this particular #SpermWhale clan... there are 143."

Sommarläsning… ⁦‪@StanDehaene‬⁩ om vad man hör och inte hör i ett nytt språk
#education #phonemes

Click languages: Short sample of someone pronouncing four click consonants used in southeastern Bantu languages like Zulu and Xhosa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHHGOYu6Fl0&t=168s
#southafrica #phonology #language #phonemes #khosa #click #zunda #zulu #+

@riley @mcc
This is fascinating!

I've been studying #Czech, which shares a ton of #phonemes and #vocabulary with other #Slavic languages, but is written with a Latin-based character set (I say "Latin-based" because Czech uses an assortment of #diacritic marks as #pronunciation modifiers on an otherwise standard #Latin character set).

On several occasions, I've come across a #Russian or #Ukrainian word written in its native #Cyrillic script followed by a #phonetic pronunciation guide written in Latin characters, and consequently recognized the word as one that is shared with Czech. Those moments of recognition are just pure #linguistic glee.

Make Your ESP32 Talk Like It’s the 80s Again - 80s-era electronic speech certainly has a certain retro appeal to it, but it can s... - https://hackaday.com/2023/04/25/make-your-esp32-talk-like-its-the-80s-again/ #microcontrollers #speechsynthesis #phonemes #how-to #talkie #80s