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Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета. Серия: гуманитарные и общественные наукиIranian students of Russian often experience problems with phonetics and pronunciation that hinder their listening comprehension. Pronunciation mistakes and native-language interference are the main problems Iranian students have to face while studying ...
Roya Azadi, Alireza Valipour
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Child-Directed Speech in Rural and Urban Households in a Low-SES Afrikaans-Speaking Community in South Africa. [PDF]
InfancyABSTRACT Most studies on child language acquisition occur in the minority world (countries which make up the minority of the world's population). Their findings are not generalizable to majority‐world contexts, where the majority of the world's population lives.
Defty C, Southwood F.
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The Place for Form in Wollheim's Lectures on Formalism and Pictorial Organization
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract At the time of his death, Richard Wollheim was writing a short book on Formalism and Pictorial Organization. Much of it, but by no means all of it, had been published before (it has come out posthumously in its entirety in late 2025). Here I do two things. First, I have provided a rather detailed exegesis concentrating on the parts of the book
Gary Kemp
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Effect of F0 contour on perception of Mandarin Chinese speech against masking.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Intonation has many perceptually significant functions in language that contribute to speech recognition. This study aims to investigate whether intonation cues affect the unmasking of Mandarin Chinese speech in the presence of interfering sounds ...
Meihong Wu
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Comprehension of implied meaning in Chinese second language listening
Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract Listening comprehension is crucial for second language (L2) communication and acquisition. However, it has received less attention than reading, given the transient nature of speech signals and the intangible cognitive processes involved in it.
Jiafan Zhang, Wei Cai
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
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Planning sentences and sentence intonation in Estonian
Laboratory PhonologyThe notion of advance planning of sentence intonation is grounded in the positive correlation between the sentence-initial intonation peaks and sentence duration.
Nele Ots
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Real-Time Aural and Visual Feedback for Improving Violin Intonation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Playing with correct intonation is one of the major challenges for a string player. A player must learn how to physically reproduce a target pitch, but before that, the player must learn what correct intonation is.
Laurel S. Pardue, Andrew McPherson
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez +3 more
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An Acoustic Analysis of Persian Children’s Story-telling Based on Rise, Fall and Connection Model (RFC) [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2014 This research article is aimed at investigating the acoustic analysis of intonation in the story-telling of the 5-6-year-old children in Persian and also studying the correlation between gender and intonation.
Ava Imani, Batool Alinezhad
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