Shinji Maeda
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shinji Maeda is involved.
Articles
2011 Airflow and acoustic modelling of pharyngeal and uvular consonants in Moroccan Arabic Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics, Hassan, Zeki Majeed and Barry Heselwood (eds.), pp. 141–162 | Article
Idealised models based on realistic vocal-tract area functions are proposed for Arabic uvular /χ, ʁ/ and pharyngeal /ħ, ʕ/ and compared against data from four male speakers of Moroccan Arabic (MA). Synthesised versions of [aCa] sequences were created from these idealised models and subjected to… read more
1999 Neandertal man was not morphologically handicapped for speech Phonetics of the Origins and Evolution of Speech, Demolin, Didier and Jean-Marie Hombert (eds.), pp. 49–77 | Article
Since Lieberman and Crelin (1971) postulated a theory that Neandertals were speechless species, the speech capability of Neandertals has been a subject of hot debate for over 30 years and remains as a controversial question. These authors claimed that the acquisition of a low laryngeal position… read more