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Experimental research on English vowel errors analysis
SHS Web of Conferences, 2016 Our paper analyzed relevant acoustic parameters of people’s speech samples and the results that compared with English standard pronunciation with methods of experimental phonetics by phonetic analysis software and statistical analysis software.
Huang Qiuhua
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Cooperative human signals to honeyguides form local dialects
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Human language enables the exchange of complex information and precise instructions for collaborative planning and action. It rapidly evolves through social learning, generating diverse cultural communication signals used not only with other humans, but also with domesticated animals bred or trained to respond.
Jessica E. M. van der Wal +5 more
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Investigating the Relationship Between Early Speech Milestones and Oral–Motor Development in Infants
Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim This study aimed to determine whether infants' oromotor skills were related to the onset of babbling and their phonetic inventory at 6 months of age. Methods Parents of 50 6‐month‐old infants (41 full‐term, 9 preterm) completed the Child Oral and Motor Proficiency Scale (ChOMPS), a valid and reliable caregiver‐report measure of oromotor ...
K. M. Allison +5 more
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Exploring Acoustic Overlap in Second Language Vowel Productions
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the alignment of vowel categories between second language (L2) learners and first language (L1) speakers of the target language, as well as potential overlaps between adjacent vowels in terms of formant frequencies and duration.
Georgios P. Georgiou, Elena Savva
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Frontiers in Artificial IntelligenceThis study assessed the influence of speaker similarity and sample length on the performance of an automatic speaker recognition (ASR) system utilizing the SpeechBrain toolkit. The dataset comprised recordings from 20 male identical twin speakers engaged
Julio Cesar Cavalcanti +5 more
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Grammar Searches for Wh‐Questions in Beginning‐Level Child Second Language Learners
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is important for learners to be able to ask wh‐questions in interaction. However, making wh‐questions can be difficult for beginning‐level EFL leaners, particularly for those learners whose L1 and L2 differ in the way wh‐questions are formed.
Haerim Hwang
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Acoustic Characteristics of Arabic Pharyngeal and Pharyngealized Consonants
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1981 Spectrographic data were examined in order to find an acoustic correlate for the classification of "emphatic" in traditional Arabic phonology. It was found that an emphatic consonant affects the steady state and transition of a preceding or following ...
Boxberger, Linda
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The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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Goodness of Pronunciation Algorithm in the Speech Analysis and Assessment for Detecting Errors in Acoustic Phonetics: An Exploratory Review [PDF]
, 2023 Edward Wilder Caro Anzola, Miguel Moreno
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Statistical analysis of acoustic characteristics of Tibetan Lhasa dialect speech emotion
SHS Web of Conferences, 2016 The paper makes a quantitative analysis and comparison on the continuous speech emotion of Lhasa Tibetan in the four basic emotional patterns (happy, surprise, sad, neutral) pitch, energy and time length by experimental phonetics and the linear ...
Guo Dandan +3 more
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