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Psycho-Social Constraints on Naturalistic Adult Second Language Acquisition

Languages, 2021
The following study investigated a rare case of adult immersion in a second language context without prior exposure to the language. It aimed to investigate whether Length of Residence (LoR) acts as a strong index of L2 speech performance when coupled ...
Azza Al-Kendi, Ghada Khattab
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Adaptive 4D‐Printed Vascular Stents With Low‐Temperature‐Activated and Intelligent Deployment

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Microarchitected coronary artery stents were fabricated using a polycaprolactone (PCL)‐based shape memory polymer (SMP) composite via projection micro‐stereolithography (PµSL) 4D printing. By incorporating diethyl phthalate (DEP) as a plasticizer, the thermal transition temperature (Ttran) was modulated to about 37°C, enabling rapid and autonomous ...
Yannan Li, Yifan Pan, Chikahiro Imashiro, Chaolun Xu, Jianxian He, Jingao Xu, Kewei Song, Ze Zhang, Chen Gao, Junbo Jiang, Runhuai Yang, Kayo Hirose, Shinjiro Umezu   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

A hypothesis on improving foreign accents by optimizing variability in vocal learning brain circuits [PDF]

, 2015
Rapid vocal motor learning is observed when acquiring a language in early childhood, or learning to speak another language later in life. Accurate pronunciation is one of the hardest things for late learners to master and they are almost always left with
Simmonds, AJ
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Ionic‐Electronic Hydrogel‐Liquid Metal Composite Bilayer with Tissue‐Adaptive and Adhesive Properties for Closed‐Loop Neuroprosthetic System

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A hydrogel–liquid metal composite peripheral nerve interface (HLB‐PNI) combines electrically durable electrodes and tissue‐adhesive hydrogel for tissue‐adaptive implantation. In nerve‐injured rats, it enables the diagnosis of sensory‐motor connectivity via stimulation and neural signal recording.
Yewon Kim, Kyoungryong Kim, Jaehyon Kim, Heewon Choi, Mikyung Shin, Donghee Son   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying Racial Minorities' Nationality: Non-verbal Accent as a Cue to Cultural Group Membership

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Historically, racial appearance has been a common source of information upon which we categorize others, as have verbal accents. Enculturated non-verbal accents which are detected in facial expressions of emotion, hairstyle, and everyday behaviors, have ...
Yvette D. Alcott, Susan E. Watt
doaj   +1 more source

A destressing "deafness" in French? [PDF]

, 1997
French is a language in which accent is mandatory on the last syllable of every content word. In contrast, Spanish uses accent to distinguish different lexical items (e.g., b'ebe vs beb'e).
Dupoux, E., Mehler, J., Pallier, C., Sebastian, N.   +3 more
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Dense Nanofibrillar Collagen–Silica Hybrids with High Strength and ECM‐Mimetic Tissue Integration

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Dense nanofibrillar collagen–silica hybrids are engineered by synchronizing collagen fibrillogenesis with silica condensation, producing printable scaffolds that unexpectedly approach native extracellular matrix organization and strength. These cell‐free constructs guide endogenous cell‐infiltration, enable localized matrix remodeling, and integrate ...
Norein Norein, Shima Tavakoli, Philipp Wolf, Xie Ling, Veronica Rondahl, Klaus Leifer, Gry Hulsart‐Billström, Jöns Hilborn   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Het foreign accent syndrome. [PDF]

Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie, 2010
Dit literatuuroverzicht beschrijft klinische en onderzoeksaspecten van een in de taal en spraakpathologie stiefmoederlijk bedeelde spraakstoornis: het Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS). FAS wordt gedefi nieerd als een neurogene spraakstoornis, gekenmerkt door afwijkingen in intonatie, ritme en klemtoon en afwijkingen in timing, plaats en manier van ...
Stoop, K., Maassen, B.A.M.
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Biomaterials‐Based Hydrogel with Superior Bio‐Mimetic Ionic Conductivity and Tissue‐Matching Softness for Bioelectronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
By mimicking the ion‐accelerating effect of ion channel receptors in neuron membranes, a biomaterials‐based ionic hydrogel (BIH) is developed, which offers a high ionic conductivity of 7.04 S m−1, outperforming conventional chitosan, cellulose, agarose, starch, and gelatin based ionic hydrogels.
Baojin Chen, Renjie Yu, Jiaqi Wang, Yunxiang Feng, Yujie Zhang, Yanchao Mao, Chongxin Shan, Xudong Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging Native Language Speech for Accent Identification using Deep Siamese Networks

, 2017
The problem of automatic accent identification is important for several applications like speaker profiling and recognition as well as for improving speech recognition systems. The accented nature of speech can be primarily attributed to the influence of
Ganapathy, Sriram, Jyothi, Preethi, Siddhant, Aditya   +2 more
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