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An Acoustic Investigation into the Prosodic Features of an American English and Brazilian Portuguese Idiom

The ESPecialist, 2011
This article reports on an investigation, in an L2 context, of the use of acoustic phonetics to characterize the intonational patterns of an idiom in utterances produced by bilingual speakers (English and Portuguese).
Sergio Augusto Mauad
doaj  

Performance and Biases of the LENA and ACLEW Algorithms in Analyzing Language Environments in Down, Fragile X, Angelman Syndromes, and Populations at Elevated Likelihood for Autism

Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Wearable recorders are used in research and clinical practice to collect and measure children's vocalizations and the language environment in which they occur. Recordings generate vast amounts of audio, making manual analysis impractical and requiring automated processing.
Marvin Lavechin, Lisa R. Hamrick, Bridgette Kelleher, Amanda Seidl   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Phonetics and Phonology of Regional English Accents: A Study

ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives
This study explores the phonetics and phonology of regional accents in English, aiming on how distinctions in pronunciation impact intelligibility, identity, and linguistic acuity.
T. Prakash
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Fonetyka eksperymentalna a polska norma fonetyczna – refleksje na gruncie badań dotyczących wymowy samogłosek nosowych i spółgłoski bocznej / Experimental Phonetics versus the Polish Pronunciation Norm – Reflections Based on Research on the Pronunciation of Nasal Vowels and Lateral Consonant [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
Experimental research in phonetics is used for detailed and objective analysis of linguistic data, providing a complete description of the data at the articulatory, acoustic, and auditory levels.
Marta Rogozińska
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Acoustic Phonetics [PDF]

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2001
Kenneth N. Stevens, Gary Weismer
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Recognition of Familiar Wordforms and Phonological Variation in Akan by Multilingual Infants Learning African Tone Languages in Ghana

Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent developmental evidence shows that the proposal that consonants are more important than vowels for lexical processing is not universal but language‐specific. In non‐tone languages, a consonant bias emerges early in development in Romance languages (e.g., French) but later in Germanic languages (e.g., English), while evidence from Asian ...
Paul Okyere Omane, Reginald Akuoko Duah, Thierry Nazzi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Newborns’ Brains Detect Foreign Rhythm in Native‐Language Speech

Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Humans begin tuning in to the prosody of their native language even before birth. Previous studies with newborns have reported language‐specific processing of forward versus backward speech and of intonational contours, as well as sensitivity to iambic versus trochaic patterns in non‐linguistic tone stimuli.
Martina Dvořáková, Natálie Kikoťová, Josef Urbanec, Antonia Goetz, Kateřina Chládková   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Stylistics of Al-qu’ran: The Symbolic Meaning and Function of the Art of Reading Al-qur’an on the Context of Communication

Ijtimā'iyya, 2018
The study the stylistics of the Qur'an cannot be separated from the concept of i'jaz al-Quran as a form of uniqueness and privilege of the language of Qur'an. When Qur'an was delivered to the Arab society, they had used high language and literature.
Musta'in Musta'in
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Cortical Tracking of Speech Across Rhythm Classes in English‐, French‐, and Japanese‐Learning 4‐ and 8‐Month‐Old Infants

Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT It has been proposed that the world's languages fall into three rhythmic classes according to the units that determine their rhythmic structure: stress‐based (e.g., English), syllable‐based (e.g., French), and mora‐based (e.g., Japanese). These rhythmic differences modulate language‐specific processing in adults and young infants.
Varghese Peter, Marina Kalashnikova, Sandrien van Ommen, Reiko Mazuka, Denis Burnham, Thierry Nazzi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phonology and Phonetics Review

, 2010
This unit reviews some of the key concepts and elements of English phonology and phonetics by providing a variety of multimedia resources and activities.
Pamela Rogerson-Revell
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