Production of L3 Vowels: Is it Possible to Separate them from L1 and L2 Sounds? [PDF]
, 2015 It is incontrovertible that acquisition of a sound system of a second language is always a complex phenomenon and presents a great challenge for L2 learners (e.g. Rojczyk, 2010a). There are numerous studies (e.g.
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Using the beat histogram for speech rhythm description and language identification [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper we present a novel approach for the description of speech rhythm and the extraction of rhythm-related features for automatic language identification (LID).
Lykartsis, Athanasios, Weinzierl, Stefan
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Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives in English [PDF]
, 2013 The paper investigates immediate and distracted imitation in second-language speech using unreleased plosives. Unreleased plosives are fairly frequently found in English sequences of two stops. Polish, on the other hand, is characterised by a significant
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Elisão de fonemas na cadeia de fala
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2005 The purpose of this paper is the acoustic and articulatory analyses of an elderly speaker who lives at São Tiago - Minas Gerais recorded by project "Bandeirante" Philology.
Suzi Oliveira de Lima
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Rhythm in the speech of a person with right hemisphere damage: Applying the pairwise variability index [PDF]
, 2007 Although several aspects of prosody have been studied in speakers with right hemisphere damage (RHD), rhythm remains largely uninvestigated. This study compares the rhythm of an Australian English speaker with right hemisphere damage (due to a stroke ...
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Samogłoski ustne gwary kurpiowskiej
Slavia Meridionalis, 2021 Oral Vowels in the Kurpie Dialect The aim of the article is a phonetic and acoustic description of stressed oral vowels occurring in the Kurpie dialect, depending on the gender and age of respondents.
Justyna Garczyńska
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Articulatory Tradeoffs Reduce Acoustic Variability During American English /r/ Production [PDF]
, 1998 Acoustic and articulatory recordings reveal that speakers utilize systematic articulatory tradeoffs to maintain acoustic stability when producing the phoneme /r/.
Browman C. +11 more
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How to motivate with speech. Findings from acoustic phonetics and pragmatics
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 In the present work, we describe and discuss two studies in the field of motivating-speech research. The studies investigate voice-quality features (study 1) and pragmatic aspects (study 2) in German motivating speech, thereby adding to the current state-
Jana Voße +4 more
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Acoustic-phonetic representations in word recognition [PDF]
Cognition, 1987 This paper reviews what is currently known about the sensory and perceptual input that is made available to the word recognition system by processes typically assumed to be related to speech sound perception. In the first section, we discuss several of the major problems that speech researchers have tried to deal with over the last thirty years. In the
D B, Pisoni, P A, Luce
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Effects of age, sex, context, and lexicality on hyperarticulation of Korean fricatives [PDF]
, 2017 Seoul Korean is known for a rare three-way laryngeal contrast among lenis, fortis, and aspirated voiceless stops, which has recently undergone a change in phonetic implementation: whereas older speakers rely more on voice onset time (VOT) to distinguish ...
Chang, Charles B., Jeon, Hae-Sung
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