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One Hundred Years of Sound Change in Philadelphia: Linear Incrementation, Reversal, and Reanalysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The study of sound change in progress in Philadelphia has been facilitated by the application of forced alignment and automatic vowel measurement to a large corpus of neighborhood studies, including 379 speakers with dates of birth from 1888 to 1991. Two
Fruehwald, Josef   +2 more
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On-line adaptive learning of the continuous density hidden Markov model based on approximate recursive Bayes estimate [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
We present a framework of quasi-Bayes (QB) learning of the parameters of the continuous density hidden Markov model (CDHMM) with Gaussian mixture state observation densities. The QB formulation is based on the theory of recursive Bayesian inference.
Huo, Q, Lee, CH
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Acoustic-phonetic characteristics of speech produced with communicative intent to counter adverse listening conditions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This study investigated whether speech produced in spontaneous interactions when addressing a talker experiencing actual challenging conditions differs in acoustic-phonetic characteristics from speech produced: (a) with communicative intent under more ...
Baker, R, Hazan, VL
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The Role of HCE in a Political Statirist's Mock Campaign for Governor [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The state of Hawai'i is unique because no single ethnic group constitutes a majority (Sato, 1994). However, the population is far fiom being a 'hannonious melting pot' with racial tensions even considered a problem in the schools (Watson-Gegeo, 1990 ...
Fontanilla, Elizabeth
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Tracing Patterns of Intra-Speaker Variation in Early English Correspondence: A Change from Above in the Paston Letters

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2019
The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of social and context factors on the diffusion of a linguistic change from above, namely the deployment of the spelling innovation in fifteenth-century English, and especially in some letters from the well ...
Hernández-Campoy Juan M.   +2 more
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Acoustic-Phonetic Characteristics of Clear Speech in Bilinguals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This study examined the language-dependency of clear speech modifications by comparing the clear speech strategies of late bilinguals in both their L1 (Finnish) and L2 (English).
Baker, R, Granlund, S, Hazan, V
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Speech Communication [PDF]

open access: yes, 1973
Contains reports on two research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-31353)National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 RO1 NS04332-10)U. S.
Cochiere, R. E., Klatt, Dennis H.
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