Moving away from deficiency models: Gradiency in bilingual speech categorization. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 For much of its history, categorical perception was treated as a foundational theory of speech perception, which suggested that quasi-discrete categorization was a goal of speech perception.
Kutlu E, Chiu S, McMurray B.
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A bilingual speech neuroprosthesis driven by cortical articulatory representations shared between languages. [PDF]
Nat Biomed EngSilva AB +10 more
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Bilingual Speech Sound Development During the Preschool Years: The Role of Language Proficiency and Cross-Linguistic Relatedness. [PDF]
J Speech Lang Hear Res, 2018 Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate typical Spanish-English speech sound development longitudinally in a group of bilingual preschoolers enrolled in a Head Start Program and to examine the extent to which such development is linked to ...
Montanari S, Mayr R, Subrahmanyam K.
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Speech Segmentation Optimization using Segmented Bilingual Speech Corpus for End-to-end Speech Translation [PDF]
Interspeech, 2022 Speech segmentation, which splits long speech into short segments, is essential for speech translation (ST). Popular VAD tools like WebRTC VAD have generally relied on pause-based segmentation.
Ryo Fukuda +2 more
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Non-native English lexicon creation for bilingual speech synthesis [PDF]
Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2021 Bilingual English speakers speak English as one of their languages. Their English is of a non-native kind, and their conversations are of a code-mixed fashion.
Arun Baby +5 more
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Linguistic factors modulating gender assignment in Spanish–English bilingual speech
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2022 Drawing on naturally-occurring bilingual speech from a well-defined codeswitching community in Southern Arizona, this study examined the influence of semantic gender (a.k.a.
A. Cruz
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Cognate Costs in Bilingual Speech Production: Evidence from Language Switching. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2016 This study investigates cross-language lexical competition in the bilingual mental lexicon. It provides evidence for the occurrence of inhibition as well as the commonly reported facilitation during the production of cognates (words with similar ...
Broersma M, Carter D, Acheson DJ.
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Joint Pre-Training with Speech and Bilingual Text for Direct Speech to Speech Translation [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2022 Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) is an attractive research topic with many advantages compared to cascaded S2ST. However, direct S2ST suffers from the data scarcity problem because the corpora from the speech of the source language to the ...
Kun Wei +7 more
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Phonetic variation in bilingual speech: A lens for studying the production-comprehension link. [PDF]
J Mem Lang, 2016 Fricke M, Kroll JF, Dussias PE.
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Frontiers in Education, 2022 Screening for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) among bilingual children in Speech and Language Clinics is challenged by the use of Societal Language (SL) monolingual norms and by the absence of knowledge about children’s performance in the Home ...
Hadar Abutbul-Oz, Sharon Armon-Lotem
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