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An integrative survey on Indian sign language recognition and translation
IET Image Processing, Volume 19, Issue 1, January/December 2025.This study aims to survey the Indian sign language (ISL) interpretation literature and give pertinent information about ISL recognition and translation (ISLRT). It provides an overview of recent advances in ISLRT, including the use of machine learning based, deep learning based, and gesture‐based techniques. This work also summarizes the development of
Rina Damdoo, Praveen Kumar
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sC-clusters in Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This paper discusses word-initial (sibilant + consonant) sequences that may or may not be preceded by a vowel in Brazilian Portuguese, as, for example, in escola [isˈkɔlə] ~ [ˈskɔlə] ‘school’ or Skype [isˈkajpi] ~ [ˈskajpi].
Matheus Freitas +1 more
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Word Forms Reflect Trade‐Offs Between Speaker Effort and Robust Listener Recognition
Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract How do cognitive pressures shape the lexicons of natural languages? Here, we reframe George Kingsley Zipf's proposed “law of abbreviation” within a more general framework that relates it to cognitive pressures that affect speakers and listeners.
Stephan C. Meylan, Thomas L. Griffiths
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International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 678-697, March/April 2024.Abstract Background Non‐word repetition (NWR) tests are an important way speech and language therapists (SaLTs) assess language development. NWR tests are often scored whilst participants make their responses (i.e., in real time) in clinical and research reports (documented here via a secondary analysis of a published systematic review).
Peter Howell +5 more
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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2011 The present research is an investigation of the role played by pronunciation instruction in the discrimination of English CVC and CVCV syllabic patterns in word-final position.
Rosane Silveira
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Affix Not Clitic‐Based Vowel Shortening in Modern Arabic Varieties
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 1-20, March 2024.Abstract Word formation in most languages is inextricably linked to a distinction between clitics and affixes. Although famous for its templatic morphological structure, Arabic also contains concatenative formatives some of whose status as clitics or affixes is controversial.
Emily Lindsay‐Smith
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Phonetics and phonology of schwa insertion in Central Yiddish
Glossa, 2020 Central Yiddish (CY) has inserted schwas that occur between long vowels or diphthongs and certain coda consonants. In the most restrictive varieties, schwas are inserted only between long high vowels or diphthongs and uvular or rhotic codas (as in /biːχ/
Marc Garellek
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Vowel Epenthesis in Toda Songs [PDF]
Linguistics and Literature Studies, 2021 This study looks at a minor but interesting phonological phenomenon that is vowel epenthesis in Toda songs, a Dravidian language spoken in South India. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the extent to which vowel epenthesis is used to satisfy the poetic meter preferences in songs and verses that are sensitive to the number of syllables per line ...
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Mora Obstruent Epenthesis in Loanword Adaptation [PDF]
, 2011 Japanese has two major phonological adaptation strategies for loanwords: phonic substitution and epenthesis. The second of these, epenthesis, refers to the insertion of additional phonemes by the borrowing language and, in the case of Japanese, may be ...
Irwin Mark
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Coronal epenthesis and markedness [PDF]
Phonology, 2002 Coronals have been claimed to behave as unmarked consonants in epenthesis. However, it is well known that the glottal consonants ([h ʔ]) are frequently epenthetic, and the empirical basis for the claim about coronal epenthesis has been weak, with only a single example commonly cited.
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