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Development of the Arabic Voice Pathology Database and Its Evaluation by Using Speech Features and Machine Learning Algorithms

Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
A voice disorder database is an essential element in doing research on automatic voice disorder detection and classification. Ethnicity affects the voice characteristics of a person, and so it is necessary to develop a database by collecting the voice samples of the targeted ethnic group.
Tamer A. Mesallam, Mohamed Farahat, Khalid H. Malki, Mansour Alsulaiman, Zulfiqar Ali, Ahmed Al-nasheri, Ghulam Muhammad, Tiago H. Falk   +7 more
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Inter- vs. Intra-Speaker Variation in Mixed Heritage Syntax: A Statistical Analysis

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Based on the novel data pertaining to five syntactic phenomena (the position of the finite verb in embedded clauses, in sentences with a modal verb, negative concord, the position of focused light/heavy objects in main clauses with a complex tense and ...
Federica Cognola, Ivano Baronchelli, Evelina Molinari   +2 more
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“Whey Aye My Good Sir”: Has Cheryl Fernandez-Versini’s Accent Moved from Tyneside English to RP?

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
This article analyses the speech of Cheryl Fernandez-Versini (nee Tweedy, formerly Cole), henceforth “Cheryl” , who experienced rapid geographical and socioeconomic mobility between 2002 and 2014.
Victoria Wallace
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The realisation of voicing assimilation rules in Hungarian spontaneous and read speech: Case studies [PDF]

, 2010
Hungarian represents a particularly fruitful ground for exploring voicing assimilation. Although this topic has been extensively analysed, a contradiction can be observed between most phonological descriptions and acoustic-phonetics-based studies of ...
Alexandra Markó, Barry M. C., Burton M. W., Bóna J., Gow D. W., Gósy M., Gósy M., Gósy M., Gósy M., Jansen W., Jansen W., Judit Bóna, Kenesei I., Kiss Z., Levelt, Lindblom B., Recasens D., Ritter N. A., Shadle C. H., Siptár P., Siptár P., Stevens K. N., Szigetvári P., Tekla Gráczi, Vago R. M.   +24 more
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Sixty Years of Speech: A Study of Language Change in Adulthood

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
Research on language change has been complicated and hindered by the problem of obtaining quality data. In many cases, the large volume of time required to collect recorded speech at different intervals, as necessary in lifespan studies, is prohibitive ...
Bei Qing Cham
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The Effects of Forensically Relevant Face Coverings on the Acoustic Properties of Fricatives

Lifespans and Styles, 2017
This forensically motivated study investigates the effects of a motorcycle helmet, balaclava, and plastic mask on the acoustics of three English non-sibilant fricatives, /f/, /θ/, and /v/ in two individuals. It examines variation within the individual as
Julie Saigusa
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Word Order, Intonation, and Prosodic Phrasing: Individual Differences in the Production and Identification of Narrow and Wide Focus in Urdu

Languages, 2022
This study investigates speaker based variation in the use of word order and intonation to mark narrow and wide focus in Urdu. The identification of focus type and position, as well as the prosodic phrasing of declarative sentences produced in the target
Farhat Jabeen
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The listening talker: A review of human and algorithmic context-induced modifications of speech [PDF]

, 2014
International audienceSpeech output technology is finding widespread application, including in scenarios where intelligibility might be compromised - at least for some listeners - by adverse conditions. Unlike most current algorithms, talkers continually
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Is a Day out of Hawick a Day Wasted? A Study of Bidialectalism in Young Hawick Females

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
This study investigates young female speakers from Hawick in southern Scotland. The main focus is to identify whether bidialectal-like shifts occur in the young female speakers’ use of local dialect features, depending on the dialect of their ...
Alice Rawsthorne
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Style or accent?: Gendered perceptions of English among young Bahrainis

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 525-539, December 2025.
Abstract Although both are recognized as different speech types, an accent is generally understood as unintentional, whereas style is performative. This study argues that with increasing rates of contact in globalization between people, resources, and cultures, ‘accent’ can be reconceptualized as closely intersected with ‘style’ in Expanding Circle ...
Wafa Al‐Alawi
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