Speech and Language Markers as Longitudinal Predictors of Youth Mental Health: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Introduction Severe mental disorders in young people (< 25 years) are often preceded by subtle changes in communication and thinking, detectable in speech. Speech and language markers are promising for early detection; however, no systematic review has evaluated their prospective utility in predicting mental disorders in youth.
Sellier Silva M+3 more
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Does Phonetics = Pronunciation? 100 Years of Phonetics in Pronunciation Teaching
The short answer to the question in the title is: not exactly, no. This paper examines the confusion between phonetics on the one hand and pronunciation on the other.
Patricia Ashby
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This study aimed to assess what we refer to as the speaker discriminatory power asymmetry and its forensic implications in comparisons performed in different speaking styles: spontaneous dialogues vs. interviews.
Julio Cesar Cavalcanti+3 more
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Speaking Rate Effects on Locus Equation Slope [PDF]
A locus equation describes a 1st order regression fit to a scatter of vowel steady-state frequency values predicting vowel onset frequency values. Locus equation coefficients are often interpreted as indices of coarticulation.
Berry, Jeffrey J., Weismer, Gary
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Production of L3 Vowels: Is it Possible to Separate them from L1 and L2 Sounds? [PDF]
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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Acoustic-phonetic representations in word recognition [PDF]
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
Paul A. Luce, David B. Pisoni
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Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives in English [PDF]
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
Abercrombie+166 more
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The perception of English front vowels by North Holland and Flemish listeners: acoustic similarity predicts and explains cross-linguistic and L2 perception [PDF]
We investigated whether regional differences in the native language (L1) influence the perception of second language (L2) sounds. Many cross-language and L2 perception studies have assumed that the degree of acoustic similarity between L1 and L2 sounds ...
Escudero, Paola+2 more
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Effects of age, sex, context, and lexicality on hyperarticulation of Korean fricatives [PDF]
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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Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study [PDF]
This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: duration and formant structure.
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