Speaking Rate Effects on Locus Equation Slope [PDF]
, 2013 A locus equation describes a 1st order regression fit to a scatter of vowel steady-state frequency values predicting vowel onset frequency values. Locus equation coefficients are often interpreted as indices of coarticulation.
Berry, Jeffrey J., Weismer, Gary
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Profiles of Dysarthria: Clinical Assessment and Treatment
Brain 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
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The Effect of IP Constituent Position and Foot Complexity on Timing in Polish Learner's English Pronunciation [PDF]
, 2010 A comparison of native and Polish learners' performance shows similar durations of stressed and pitch accented syllables. The unstressed syllables and syllable clusters, on the other hand, are significantly longer in non-native speech, and the ...
Porzuczek, Andrzej
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How to motivate with speech. Findings from acoustic phonetics and pragmatics
Frontiers 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
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Forming New Vowel Categories in Second Language Speech: The Case of Polish Learners' Production of English /I/ and /e/ [PDF]
, 2010 The paper concentrates on formation of L2 English vowel categories in the speech of Polish learners. More specifically, it compares distribution of two English categories - /I/ and /e/ relative to neighbouring Polish vowels.
Rojczyk, Arkadiusz
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Maximal vowel space method in analysis of vowels in prelingual speech phase [PDF]
Specijalna 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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English read by Japanese phonetic corpus: an interim report [PDF]
, 2012 The primary purpose of this paper is to explain the procedure of developing the English Read by Japanese Phonetic Corpus. A series of preliminary studies (Makino 2007, 2008, 2009) made it clear that a phonetically-transcribed computerized corpus of ...
Aoki Rika, Makino Takehiko
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Phonological Factors Affecting L1 Phonetic Realization of Proficient Polish Users of English [PDF]
, 2015 Acoustic phonetic studies examine the L1 of Polish speakers with professional level proficiency in English. The studies include two tasks, a production task carried out entirely in Polish and a phonetic code-switching task in which speakers insert target
Anna Balas +62 more
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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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Multimodal cues to intonational categories: Gesture apex coordination with tonal events
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 This study argues for a multimodal view of the identification, representation, and implementation of intonational structure, with evidence from gesture apex-tone coordination in Turkish.
Olcay Türk, Sasha Calhoun
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