Phonetic Convergence, Language Talent, Personality and Attention
Studies into phonetic adaptation rarely consider individual differences (IDs) on a cognitive and personality level between speakers as a direct source of adaptation variation. In order to investigate the degree to which the individual phonetic talent and
Natalie Lewandowski, Matthias Jilka
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The acquisition of Sign Language: The impact of phonetic complexity on phonology [PDF]
Research into the effect of phonetic complexity on phonological acquisition has a long history in spoken languages. This paper considers the effect of phonetics on phonological development in a signed language. We report on an experiment in which nonword-
Bernhardt B. H. +38 more
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This paper reports on a study in which Polish first-year university students of English, self-studied the massive open and online course (henceforth MOOC) entitled “Pronunciation in a Global World” to gain some knowledge on the fundamentals of phonetics (
Marta Nowacka
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Monitoring English Sandhi Linking – A Study of Polish Listeners’ L2 Perception [PDF]
This paper presents a set of word monitoring experiments with Polish learners of English. Listeners heard short recordings of native English speech, and were instructed to respond when they recognized an English target word that had been presented on a ...
Balas, Anna +2 more
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Experimental Phonetics and Phonology in Indo-Aryan & European Languages
Phonetics and phonology are very interesting areas of Linguistics, and are interrelated. They are based on the human speech system, speech perception, native speakers’ intuition, and vocalic and consonantal systems of languages spoken in this world ...
Abbasi Abdul Malik +2 more
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Effect of verb argument structure on picture naming in children with and without specific language impairment (SLI) [PDF]
Background: This study investigated verb argument structure effects in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Aims: A picture-naming paradigm was used to compare the response times and naming accuracy for nouns and verbs with differing ...
Andreu Barrachina, Llorenç +3 more
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An acoustic investigation of the developmental trajectory of lexical stress contrastivity in Italian [PDF]
We examined whether typically developing Italian children exhibit adult-like stress contrastivity for word productions elicited via a picture naming task (n=25 children aged 3\u20135 years and 27 adults).
Arciuli, Joanne, Colombo, Lucia
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Emocijos: jų atpažinimas ir kai kurie akustiniai požymiai
Emotions: recognition and some acoustic featuresThe aim of the current research is to identify the main phonetic features related to the fundamental frequency changes of vocally expressed basic emotions (sadness, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, anger)
Sigita Dereškevičiūtė +1 more
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A Contrastive Study on Korean and Cia-Cia Language Vowels Based on an Acoustic Experiment
The Cia-Cia language, which is spoken by around 79.000 people in the Bau-Bau area of Buton Island, does not have its own writing system. In 2009, the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, was approved by the Bau-Bau city government for transcribing Cia-Cia, owing to
Achmad Rio Dessiar
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Production of L3 Vowels: Is it Possible to Separate them from L1 and L2 Sounds? [PDF]
It is incontrovertible that acquisition of a sound system of a second language is always a complex phenomenon and presents a great challenge for L2 learners (e.g. Rojczyk, 2010a). There are numerous studies (e.g.
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