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The Nature and Nurture of Congenital Amusia: A Twin Case Study
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018 In this article, we report the first documented case of congenital amusia in dizygotic twins. The female twin pair was 27 years old at the time of testing, with normal hearing and above average intelligence. Both had formal music lesson from the age of 8–
Jasmin Pfeifer +2 more
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Structural Analysis of Hindi Phonetics and A Method for Extraction of Phonetically Rich Sentences from a Very Large Hindi Text Corpus [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Text to speech (TTS) are two prominent area of research in human computer interaction nowadays. A set of phonetically rich sentences is in a matter of importance in order to develop these two interactive modules of HCI.
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BEA – A multifunctional Hungarian spoken language database [PDF]
, 2013 In diverse areas of linguistics, the demand for studying actual language use is on the increase. The aim of developing a phonetically-based multi-purpose database of Hungarian spontaneous speech, dubbed BEA2, is to accumulate a large amount of ...
Gósy, Mária
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Teaching the pronunciation of sentence final and word boundary stops to French learners of English: distracted imitation versus audio-visual explanations. [PDF]
, 2016 Studies on stop unrelease in second language acquisition have hitherto focused on the productions of Slavic learners of English (Šimáčková & Podlipský, 2015) and experiments on Polish learners of English; the latter show the tendency to release stops on ...
Bałutowa +57 more
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World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To discuss the current clinical application and usefulness, shortcomings and future directions of traditional and artificial intelligence (AI)‐driven acoustic assessment techniques to detect voice dysfunction. Data Sources Literature review.
Meike Brockmann‐Bauser
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Revista de Filología Románica, 2016 One notable feature in Romanian phonetics and phonology is the presence in its inventory of typologically rare diphthongs /ea/ and /oa/ («mid diphthongs»), which happen to contrast phono-logically with both corresponding hiatus sequences /e.a/ - /o.a ...
Stefania Marin
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Phonetic-and-Semantic Embedding of Spoken Words with Applications in Spoken Content Retrieval [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Word embedding or Word2Vec has been successful in offering semantics for text words learned from the context of words. Audio Word2Vec was shown to offer phonetic structures for spoken words (signal segments for words) learned from signals within spoken words. This paper proposes a two-stage framework to perform phonetic-and-semantic embedding on spoken
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This study revisits the diachrony of the Latin neuter gender in early Ibero‐Romance. The fate of the Latin neuter is counted among the most long‐standing and yet the most controversial questions in Romance historical morphosyntax. While there has been a long‐held belief that neuter nouns merged into the masculine gender in late Latin after ...
Ziwen Wang
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Desertion from the military does not turn soldiers into civilians. In this paper, I analyse military identity and embodied practices of soldiers who deserted from the Zimbabwe National Army and were exiled in South Africa. Soldiering is understood as an essence part of who they are, as men who risked their lives and invested in a career, which
Godfrey Maringira
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Bilingual Preschoolers ’ Speech is Associated with Non-Native Maternal Language Input [PDF]
, 2019 Published online: 11 Nov 2018Bilingual children are often exposed to non-native speech through their parents. Yet, little is known about the relation between bilingual preschoolers’ speech production and their speech input. The present study investigated
Benders, Titia +3 more
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