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Comprehension of implied meaning in Chinese second language listening
Foreign Language Annals, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 449-476, Summer 2026.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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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 402-424, June 2026.It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
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Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 49, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Background This study explored the differential effects of a comprehensive intervention program for improving literacy skills in monolingual children with learning difficulties (LD) from Spain, enrolled in the second (Grades 3 and 4; aged 8–10 years) and third cycles (Grades 5 and 6; aged 10–12 years) of primary school.
María Carmona +3 more
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Commentary: Papers on the Phonetics/Phonology Interface [PDF]
, 2001 Research in how phonology relates to phonetics has followed diverse lines, and the papers in this section illustrate three of the different paths that have been taken.
Natasha Warner +3 more
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Syntactic and Prosodic Phrasal Alignment in Naturalistic Language
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 5, May 2026.Abstract Prosody is an intrinsic element of language production, linking together multiple levels of linguistic representation to shape both the structure and interpretation of utterances. However, common theories of prosodic phrasing in spoken language often fail to capture factors associated with planning and recovery, as well as performance‐based ...
Julie Bannon +2 more
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Final Rises in task-oriented and conversational dialogue [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the distribution of utterance final pitch rises in dialogues with different task structures. More specifically, we examine map-task and topical conversation dialogues of Southern Standard British English speakers in the IViE corpus ...
Lai, Catherine +3 more
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The dynamics of intonation: Categorical and continuous variation in an attractor-based model.
PLoS ONE, 2019 The framework of dynamical systems offers powerful tools to understand the relation between stability and variability in human cognition in general and in speech in particular.
Simon Roessig +2 more
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CNN‐Based Accent Similarity Detection Using Masked Spectrogram Reconstruction
Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 3, March 2026.Convolutional Neural Network Masked Spectrogram Reconstruction model to enhance accent recognition and similarity assessment in automatic speech recognition. Addressing challenges in recognizing non‐native English accents, the method utilizes randomly masked spectrogram inputs to extract accent‐specific features.
Amina Salifu +8 more
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Contrastive Topics in Pairing Answers: A Cross-Linguistic Production Study [PDF]
, 2007 Skopeteas S, Féry C. Contrastive Topics in Pairing Answers: A Cross-Linguistic Production Study. In: Featherston S, Sternefeld W, eds. Linguistic Evidence 2006.
Sternefeld, Wolfgang +3 more
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