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This study investigates whether Mandarin listeners integrate a prosody-covarying phonological variable, the Chinese Tone 3 sandhi (T3S), into auditory sentence disambiguation.
Aini Li, Wei Lai
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Relativized Prosodic Domains: A Late-Insertion Account of German Plurals
In late-insertion, realizational models of morphology such as Distributed Morphology (DM), the insertion of Vocabulary Items (VIs) is conditioned by cyclic operations in the syntax.
Katharina S. Schuhmann+1 more
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Does prosodic-foot disyllabicity hold a default status in Mandarin speech perception? [PDF]
An acoustic experiment was conducted to investigate the perceptual processing of native Mandarin speakers in syntactic ambiguity resolution. The statistical majority of disyllabic words in modern Chinese [17] and the prosodic theory of Binary Foot ...
Ivan Chow
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A bird's eye view over a Scandinavian isogloss : exponence of definiteness (in word prosody)
The articulation of definiteness in the Scandinavian languages displays an intricate and complex pattern where all levels of grammar are involved.
Miguel Vázquez-Larruscaín
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Amplitude envelope modulations across languages reflect prosody
The speech signal has been shown to contain a fine structure that consists of the fast changing spectral content (e.g., formant transitions, voicing, spectral energy distributions), together with amplitude modulations of the envelope with different ...
Sónia Frota+4 more
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A Structural Analysis of the Common and Innovative Meters in Persian Poetry [PDF]
This article examines the structure of commonly used and innovative meters in Persian poetry, both classical and contemporary. Moreover, it introduces a new classification for meters of all types.
Mohammadamir Jalali
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Faithfulness vs truncation: A prosodic account of children’s disyllabic to pentasyllabic words
In the present study faithfulness and truncation in language acquisition are investigated. The data come from pictures naming and spontaneous speech produced by four Greek-speaking children aged 1;6.26 to 2;10.9 years old.
Anastasios Poulidakis
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DiffProsody: Diffusion-based Latent Prosody Generation for Expressive Speech Synthesis with Prosody Conditional Adversarial Training [PDF]
Expressive text-to-speech systems have undergone significant advancements owing to prosody modeling, but conventional methods can still be improved. Traditional approaches have relied on the autoregressive method to predict the quantized prosody vector; however, it suffers from the issues of long-term dependency and slow inference.
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Stress production by Cebuano learners of Arabic: A metrical analysis
Stress is one of the most neglected components of the Arabic language in classrooms (Lin, 2018; Ryding, 2013).This study is devoted to analyzing stress production in Arabic as produced by Cebuano learners in order to highlight the challenges so that ...
Anas Huneety+3 more
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