Scientific American

Bare-Bones Program Learns English and Japanese Vowels

A new computer model has learned to recognize vowel categories from multiple English and Japanese speakers without "knowing" the number of vowels it is looking for or having a complete list of sounds ...
BBC

The Sounds of English: Short Vowels - 4

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the fourth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short ...
JSTOR Daily

Direct mapping of acoustics to phonology: On the lexical encoding of front rounded vowels in L1 English-L2 French acquisition

It is well known that adult US-English-speaking learners of French experience difficulties acquiring high /y/-/u/ and mid /œ/-/o/ front vs. back rounded vowel contrasts in French. This study examines ...
JSTOR Daily

AN INSTRUMENTAL STUDY OF VOWEL REDUCTION AND STRESS PLACEMENT IN SPANISH-ACCENTED ENGLISH

Morphophonological alternations in English words such as able versus ability involve changes in both stress and vowel quality. This study examined how native speakers of Spanish and English produced ...
BBC

The Sounds of English: Short Vowels - 3

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the third of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short vowel ...