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On european Portuguese automatic syllabification
Interspeech 2005, 2005This paper presents three methods for dividing European Portuguese (EP) words into syllables, two of them handling graphemes as input, the other processing phone sequences. All three try to incorporate linguistic knowledge about EP syllable structure, but in different degrees.
Catarina Oliveira +2 more
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The BioVisualSpeech European Portuguese Sibilants Corpus
2020The development of reliable speech therapy computer tools that automatically classify speech productions depends on the quality of the speech data set used to train the classification algorithms. The data set should characterize the population in terms of age, gender and native language, but it should also have other important properties that ...
Margarida Grilo +6 more
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An MRI study of european portuguese nasals
Interspeech 2007, 2007In this work we present a recently acquired MRI database for European Portuguese. As a first example of possible studies, we present results on 2D and 3D analyses of European Portuguese nasals, particularly nasal vowels. This database will enable the extraction of 2D and/or 3D articulatory parameters as well as some dynamic information to include in ...
Paula Martins 0001 +3 more
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Word stress perception in European Portuguese
Interspeech 2013, 2013Previous research has reported stress "deafness" for languages with predictable stress, like French, contrary to languages with non-predictable stress, like Spanish ([1], [2], [3], [4]). The contrastive nature of stress appears to inhibit stress "deafness", but segmental and/or suprasegmental cues may also enhance stress discrimination ([5], [6]).
Susana Correia +3 more
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On filled-pauses and prolongations in european portuguese
Interspeech 2007, 2007This paper reports preliminary results from a study of disfluencies in European Portuguese, based on a corpus of prepared (non-scripted) and spontaneous oral presentations in high school context. We will focus on the contextual distribution and temporal patterns of filled pauses and segmental prolongations, as well as on the way those are rated by ...
Helena Moniz +2 more
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Devoicing Measures of European Portuguese Fricatives
2003This paper presents a study of devoicing of European Portuguese fricatives. Two devoicing criteria (a manual criterion and a criterion based on the ratio of variances of the laryngograph signal during the VF transition and during the fricative) were used to classify the examples into two or three categories.
Luis M. T. Jesus, Christine H. Shadle
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‘Head(s)’ in Portuguese: the Metaphor in European and Brazilian Portuguese
2019The relationship between our body and our language has become an object of cognitive linguistic studies for a while now. We us our bodies to get to know the words and without the body no primary concept would emerge. We experience the world through our body perception, a feat that would be impossible without a multitude of senses we possess.
Wilkos, Aleksandra +1 more
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On the position of sempre in Medieval Portuguese and in Modern European Portuguese
The Linguistic Review, 2010In Modern European Portuguese the adverb sempre can have two different interpretations: a confirmative, non-temporal, and a temporal/aspectual interpretation. In the confirmative interpretation sempre means 'after all', and in the temporal/aspectual interpretation it means 'always'.
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The CNG Corpus of European Portuguese Children’s Speech
2013Speech recognisers trained with adults’ speech do not work well with children’s speech because of the inherent acoustic and linguistic differences in the speech of these two populations. To develop speech-driven applications capable of successfully recognising children’s speech, a sufficient amount of children’s speech is needed for training acoustic ...
Annika Hämäläinen +6 more
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