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The phonetics of second language learning and bilingualism [PDF]
The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics, 2018 This chapter provides an overview of major theories and findings in the field of second language (L2) phonetics and phonology. Four main conceptual frameworks are discussed and compared: the Perceptual Assimilation Model-L2, the Native Language Magnet ...
Chang, Charles B.
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, 2020 Prosody is an umbrella term used to cover a variety of interconnected and interacting phenomena, namely stress, rhythm, phrasing, and intonation. The phonetic expression of prosody relies on a number of parameters, including duration, amplitude, and fundamental frequency (F0). The same parameters are also used to encode lexical contrasts (such as tone),
A. Arvaniti
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Teaching Phonetics Using A Mobile-Based Application in an EFL Context [PDF]
European Scientific Journal, 2018 Mobile based learning has been an effective mean for learning languages. The aim of this study is three-fold: first, to investigate the process of designing mobile-based application for teaching phonetics in EFL context.
Haggag, Haggag Mohamed
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Cognitive Load Increases Spoken and Gestural Hesitation Frequency
Languages, 2023 This study investigates the interplay of spoken and gestural hesitations under varying amounts of cognitive load. We argue that not only fillers and silences, as the most common hesitations, are directly related to speech pausing behavior, but that ...
Simon Betz +3 more
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Examining Temporal Structure of Speech with a Local Articulation Rate Metric
Research in Language, 2023 The primary goal of our study is to propose a method of calculating and visualising local articulation rate for research in temporal structure of speech.
Jan Volín, Michaela Svatošová
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Asymmetric Influence of Vocalic Context on Mandarin Sibilants: Evidence From ERP Studies
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 In the present study, we examine the interactive effect of vowels on Mandarin fricative sibilants using a passive oddball paradigm to determine whether the HEIGHT features of vowels can spread on the surface and influence preceding consonants with ...
Yaxuan Meng +5 more
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Languages, 2023 Pauses act as important acoustic cues to prosodic phrase boundaries. However, the distribution and phonetic characteristics of pauses have not yet been fully described either cross-linguistically or in different genres and speech styles within languages.
Pavel Šturm, Jan Volín
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Infant and Child Development, Volume 31, Issue 6, November/December 2022., 2022 Abstract There has been significant and extensive knowledge production in the last four decades regarding pragmatic language impairment (PLI) in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The evidence contained in this literature, however, is contradictory. The present scoping review (ScR) seeks to disentangle competing explanations of conceptualizing,
Ahmed Alduais +5 more
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Disfluencies Revisited—Are They Speaker-Specific?
Languages, 2023 The forensic application of phonetics relies on individuality in speech. In the forensic domain, individual patterns of verbal and paraverbal behavior are of interest which are readily available, measurable, consistent, and robust to disguise and to ...
Angelika Braun +2 more
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