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Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives in English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper investigates immediate and distracted imitation in second-language speech using unreleased plosives. Unreleased plosives are fairly frequently found in English sequences of two stops. Polish, on the other hand, is characterised by a significant
Abercrombie   +166 more
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Language Proficiency and Sonorant Devoicing in English Plosive-Sonorant Clusters

open access: yesResearch in Language, 2023
This article explores the timing of phonetic voicing in plosive-sonorant clusters in English. VOT was measured in two groups of Czech learners with different proficiency levels and a native English control group.
Klára Přečková   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Production of L3 Vowels: Is it Possible to Separate them from L1 and L2 Sounds? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It is incontrovertible that acquisition of a sound system of a second language is always a complex phenomenon and presents a great challenge for L2 learners (e.g. Rojczyk, 2010a). There are numerous studies (e.g.
Arabski   +96 more
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Assimilation of Voicing in Czech Speakers of English: The Effect of the Degree of Accentedness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Czech and English are languages which differ with respect to the implementation of voicing. Unlike in English, there is a considerable agreement between phonological (systemic) and phonetic (actual) voicing in Czech, and, more importantly, the two ...
Boersma   +47 more
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Profiles of Dysarthria: Clinical Assessment and Treatment

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2023
In recent decades, we have witnessed a wealth of theoretical work and proof-of-principle studies on dysarthria, including descriptions and classifications of dysarthric speech patterns, new and refined assessment methods, and innovative experimental ...
Wolfram Ziegler   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

More on the voicing of English obstruents: voicing retention vs. voicing loss [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In Gonet (2010), one of the present authors found out that English word-final phonologically voiced obstruents in the voicing-favouring environment exhibit asymmetrical, if not erratic, behaviour in that voicing in plosives is most often retained while ...
Gonet, Wiktor, Święciński, Radosław
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How to motivate with speech. Findings from acoustic phonetics and pragmatics

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
In the present work, we describe and discuss two studies in the field of motivating-speech research. The studies investigate voice-quality features (study 1) and pragmatic aspects (study 2) in German motivating speech, thereby adding to the current state-
Jana Voße   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody

open access: yes, 2018
A linguistic dissertation presenting experiment results focused on Korean speech rhythms and how they differ from those in English. The volume describes differences in the role of intonationally defined prosodic grouping influencing the pronunciation of ...
Sun-Ah Jun
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Maximal vowel space method in analysis of vowels in prelingual speech phase [PDF]

open access: yesSpecijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2014
The main problems in the analysis of vowels which occur in prelingual speech phase are centralization of utterance and unknown dimension of vocal tract.
Vojnović Milan   +2 more
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Accounting for multicompetence and restructuring in the study of speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Phonetic studies meant to generalize to monolingual speakers of a target language have often examined individuals with considerable experience using another language, such as the immigrant native speaker.
Chang, Charles B.
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