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Take an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning Ability
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning of a new, additional foreign language.
Kiyono Fujinaga‐Gordon +2 more
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Acoustic-phonetic variability of Polish vowels
Archives of Acoustics, 2014 Since the early 1960's speech sounds have been described at three levels of abstraction: intrinsic-allophonic, extrinsic-allophonic and phonemic. The acoustic features of Polish vowels have been investigated at the first and the last of these levels by ...
W. JASSEM
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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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Dimension esthétique des voix normales et dysphoniques : Approches perceptive et acoustique
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2012 Researchers as well as speech therapists are interested in acoustic cues, that allow evaluating voice quality and its degradation in order to obtain a diagnosis and to analyze the effects of a therapy.
Melissa Barkat-Defradas +6 more
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Listener Commentary Reveals the Social Salience of Accent Features
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how listeners from two regions of England perceive and describe Northern English accents. Using the Salient Language in Context (SLIC) methodology, 94 respondents from two regions of England listened to recorded voices, clicking when they noticed features and providing open‐ended comments.
Chris Montgomery
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Perception of Polish accent in a re-synthesized speech signal
Archives of Acoustics, 2014 The utterance /vidzitceteras/ was spoken, in three versions, with the accent (I) on the first, (II) on the second and (IV) on the fourth syllable. Using a package of computer programs for speech processing which executes analysis and synthesis by linear ...
W. JASSEM, W. Van Dommelen
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Aerosols, airflow, and more: examining the interaction of speech and the physical environment
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 We describe ongoing efforts to better understand the interaction of spoken languages and their physical environments. We begin by briefly surveying research suggesting that languages evolve in ways that are influenced by the physical characteristics of ...
Caleb Everett +5 more
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How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
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Acoustic-phonetics based speech recognition [PDF]
Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language - HLT '89, 1989 The objective of this project is to develop a robust and high-performance speech recognition system using a segment-based approach to phonetic recognition. The recognition system will eventually be integrated with natural language processing to achieve spoken language understanding.
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigated the phonetic training performance of 80 first language (L1) Catalan/Spanish advanced second language (L2) English learners in a four‐session high‐variability phonetic training (HVPT) program and how their training progress interacted with stimuli type (nonwords vs. words) and individual differences in auditory selective
Ingrid Mora‐Plaza +3 more
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