Russian L1 speakers’ palatalization in Estonian and the effect of phonetic speech training
The purpose of this paper is to find out whether palatalization contributes to Russian-accented speech in Estonian and whether speech training would help to speak more native-like. Although palatalization is a common feature of both Estonian and Russian,
Anton Malmi, Pärtel Lippus
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Fractal and multifractal analysis of complex networks: Estonian network of payments [PDF]
Complex networks have gained much attention from different areas of knowledge in recent years. Particularly, the structures and dynamics of such systems have attracted considerable interest.
Stephanie Rendón de la Torre +3 more
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Automatic Speech Recognition With Very Large Conversational Finnish and Estonian Vocabularies [PDF]
Today, the vocabulary size for language models in large vocabulary speech recognition is typically several hundreds of thousands of words. While this is already sufficient in some applications, the out-of-vocabulary words are still limiting the usability
Seppo Enarvi +3 more
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Kuidas maitseb? Eesti ja saksa aktiivse maitsesõnavara empiiriline uurimus
"What does it taste like? A comparative study of taste terms in Estonian and German". This article compares and describes Estonian and German active taste vocabulary on the basis of the empirical data in respect of the salience. Two field experiments
Karin Zurbuchen
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Personaalpronoomenite ja pöördevormide sekundaarkasutusest eesti ja vene keeles
"On the metaphorical use of personal pronouns and verb forms in Estonian and Russian". The article is devoted to the metaphorical use of personal pronouns and their respective verb forms in Russian and Estonian.
Sirje Kupp-Sazonov
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Corpus of Estonian Dialects and the Estonian Vowel System
This article consists of two parts: an introduction to the principles and the current state of the corpus of Estonian dialects, and a presentation of the main characteristics of the vowel systems of Estonian dialects based on statistical analysis of the data in the dialect corpus.
Liina Lindström, Karl Pajusalu
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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths [PDF]
Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask ...
Berkowitz D. +14 more
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African swine fever (ASF) in wild boar populations is difficult to control. In affected areas, samples from all wild boar shot and found dead are investigated.
K. Schulz +6 more
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So Many Rocket Scientists, So Few Marketing Clerks: Occupational Mobility in Times of Rapid Technological Change [PDF]
The transition from centrally planned to market economy involves a process of massive occupational change that has been largely neglected in the literature. This paper investigates this process using data from the 1995 Estonian Labour Force Survey.
Campos, Nauro F. +1 more
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Impact of deadwood decomposition on soil organic carbon sequestration in Estonian and Polish forests
The deadwood of different tree species with different decomposition rates affects soil organic carbon sequestration in Estonian and Polish forests.
E. Błońska +4 more
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