Aleese Block
Biographic Data
| ID | 3845216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleese Block |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleese |
| FAMILY NAME | Block |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
German Word-Final Devoicing in Naturally-Produced and TTS Speech
This study explores the production and perception of word-final devoicing in German across text-to-speech (from technology used in common voice-AI "smart" speaker devices-specifically, voices from Apple and Amazon) and naturally produced utterances. First, the phonetic realization of word-final devoicing in German across text-to-speech (TTS) and naturally produced word productions was compared. Acoustic analyses reveal that the presence of cues t…
“Problematic phonemes” and German /ɛ
The decision to include or exclude phonemes in the description of a language is not always straightforward; presentations of the phoneme inventory of Modern Standard German (MSG) often include a discussion of why /ɛ:/ is problematic as a phoneme. This study describes the acoustic realization of /ɛ:/ in comparison to /e:/ in spoken German, specifically South Westphalian. 39 native German speakers produced /ɛ:/ and /e:/ in hVt non-word frames and v…
Soft d in Danish
Danish, like closely related Swedish and Norwegian, has descended from Old Norse (Haugen 1976). While the three contemporary languages are variably mutually intelligible, Danish has phonologically diverged from the other Scandinavian languages (Gooskens 2006). This is caused by extensive consonant lenition and vowel reduction within Danish (Basbøll 2005). The lenition of and in syllable coda positions into a sound that Danish linguists have calle…
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Soft d in Danish
Danish, like closely related Swedish and Norwegian, has descended from Old Norse (Haugen 1976). While the three contemporary languages are variably mutually intelligible, Danish has phonologically diverged from the other Scandinavian languages (Gooskens 2006). This is caused by extensive consonant lenition and vowel reduction within Danish (Basbøll 2005). The lenition of and in syllable coda positions into a sound that Danish linguists have calle…
“Problematic phonemes” and German /ɛ
The decision to include or exclude phonemes in the description of a language is not always straightforward; presentations of the phoneme inventory of Modern Standard German (MSG) often include a discussion of why /ɛ:/ is problematic as a phoneme. This study describes the acoustic realization of /ɛ:/ in comparison to /e:/ in spoken German, specifically South Westphalian. 39 native German speakers produced /ɛ:/ and /e:/ in hVt non-word frames and v…
German Word-Final Devoicing in Naturally-Produced and TTS Speech
This study explores the production and perception of word-final devoicing in German across text-to-speech (from technology used in common voice-AI "smart" speaker devices-specifically, voices from Apple and Amazon) and naturally produced utterances. First, the phonetic realization of word-final devoicing in German across text-to-speech (TTS) and naturally produced word productions was compared. Acoustic analyses reveal that the presence of cues t…
Acoustics (3 works) · German (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Speech Recognition and Synthesis (3 works) · Coda (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Speech recognition (2 works)