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Speech Signal and Facial Image Processing for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Assessment. [PDF]
Comput Math Methods Med, 2015 Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder characterized by recurring breathing pauses during sleep caused by a blockage of the upper airway (UA). OSA is generally diagnosed through a costly procedure requiring an overnight stay of the patient at the hospital.
Espinoza-Cuadros F +5 more
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Re-examining the /eː-ɛː/ merger in Finland-Swedish: Regional and stylistic variation
Language Variation and Change, 2022 This article examines regional and stylistic variation in the merger of front vowels /eː/ and /ɛː/ in Finland-Swedish. The study investigates the merger by comparing formant data from 141 speakers from four Swedish-speaking regions in Finland ...
Janine A. E. Strandberg +2 more
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2020 We address the question whether speakers activate different grammars when they encounter linguistic input from different registers, here written standardised language and spoken dialect.
Björn Lundquist +2 more
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Inter- and intra-speaker variation in French schwa
Glossa, 2016 Quantitative constraint-based theories of optionality typically aim to model the frequency with which an individual speaker’s grammar maps one input onto various output forms.
Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Andrew Bayles
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Individual-level contact limits phonological complexity: Evidence from bunched and retroflex /ɹ/ [PDF]
, 2016 We compare the complexity of idiosyncratic sound patterns involving American English /ɹ/ with the relative simplicity of clear/dark /l/ allophony patterns found in English and other languages. For /ɹ/, we report an ultrasound-based articulatory study of
Archangeli, DB, Baker, A, Mielke, J
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“Sassy Queens”: Stylistic orthographic variation in Twitter and the enregisterment of AAVE
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 245-264, April 2020., 2020 Abstract Recent computational sociolinguistic analyses of social media have emphasized the potential of using orthographic variation as a proxy for speech, thereby permitting macro‐level quantitative studies of regional and social variation (e.g. Eisenstein, 2015).
Christian Ilbury
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Lifespans and Styles, 2018 Welcome to the first issue of the fourth volume of Lifespans & Styles , which features two papers that continue the journal’s original mission of highlighting excellence in undergraduate research while furthering case studies of intraspeaker variation ...
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Assessment of severe apnoea through voice analysis, automatic speech, and speaker recognition techniques [PDF]
, 2009 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://asp.eurasipjournals.com/content/2009/1/982531This study is part of an ongoing collaborative effort between the medical and the signal processing communities to
Alcázar Ramírez, José +5 more
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The Segment Status of the Mandarin Glide: A Language Game Experiment
Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2023 The acquisition of a phonological grammar requires the segmentation of an utterance into individual consonants and vowels as a first step, yet it is often taken as a given.
Boer Fu
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“My Vocal Cords are Made of Tweed”: Style-Shifting as Speaker Design
Lifespans and Styles, 2015 Intraspeaker variation is evaluated in terms of speaker design in a number of studies (Coupland 1985, Schilling-Estes 1998, Podesva 2008). This study explores possible motives for variation from a speaker design perspective through the analysis of three ...
Melissa Geere +2 more
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