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Feature Selection for Kurdish-Persian Bilingual Speech: A Comparative Study of Formant Frequencies and MFCCs [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی
This study examines the effectiveness of long-term formant frequency distributions (LTFDs), Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), and their combined application in distinguishing Kurdish-Persian bilingual speakers.
Maral Asiaee, Homa Asadi
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The rephonologisation of Shona loanwords from English: an optimality theory analysis

open access: yesActa Academica, 2012
In their quest to respond to scientific and educational demands, speakers of Shona, a Southern Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe, have expanded its lexical stock by borrowing mainly from the English language. The two languages have different phonologies,
Maxwell Kadenge
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Liverpool English. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Liverpool English (LE) is the variety of English spoken in Liverpool and much of the surrounding county of Merseyside, in the north-west of England. After London, the north-west of England is the most densely populated of all regions in England and Wales,
Watson, Kevin
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The influence of metalinguistic knowledge of segmental phonology on the production of English vowels by Brazilian undergraduate students

open access: yesIlha do Desterro, 2017
This paper presents data on the production of English vowels [i ? ? æ u ?] by Brazilian English Language Teaching (ELT) undergraduate students before and after taking a course on English Segmental Phonology.
Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Jr
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“The Biggest Small Town in America”: Cross-generational Patterns of Monophthongization in the Suburban South

open access: yesAnglophonia, 2022
The phonology of the Southern states of the USA (Southern American English) is a well-documented phenomenon that has witnessed considerable change in the last century.
Marc-Philippe Brunet
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Conclusion: Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Deafness

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2019
As indicated in this Special Issue, there has been much debate on the development of English language and literacy in d/Deaf and hard of hearing (d/Dhh) students.
Peter V. Paul, Faisl Alqraini
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Alien Sounds

open access: yesRiCognizioni, 2022
Klingon, a ConLang created for the Star Trek franchise in 1984 by the linguist Marc Okrand, is the subject of this study, which analyzes both its phonology and lexicon.
Chiara Meluzzi
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The Emergence of a Phoneme-sized Unit of Speech Planning in Japanese-English Bilinguals

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Recent research has revealed that the way phonology is constructed during word production differs across languages. Dutch and English native speakers are suggested to incrementally insert phonemes into a metrical frame, whereas Mandarin Chinese speakers ...
Mariko eNakayama   +3 more
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Artificial language training reveals the neural substrates underlying addressed and assembled phonologies. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Although behavioral and neuropsychological studies have suggested two distinct routes of phonological access, their neural substrates have not been clearly elucidated.
Leilei Mei   +8 more
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Production of voice onset time (VOT) by senior Polish learners of English

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2021
Although research on foreign language learning among seniors has recently accelerated, studies on L2 phonology in this age group remain scarce. Seniors may be at a great disadvantage when it comes to learning the sounds of a foreign language because age ...
Sypiańska Jolanta
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