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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

Perception of Intonation on Neutral Tone in Mandarin

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
In Mandarin, lexical tone has been found to interact with intonational tone to influence intonation perception, with the falling T4 facilitating the perception of the statement/question contrast the most, and the rising T2 the least. However, in addition
Yixin Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Speech rhythm: a metaphor? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Is speech rhythmic? In the absence of evidence for a traditional view that languages strive to coordinate either syllables or stress-feet with regular time intervals, we consider the alternative that languages exhibit contrastive rhythm subsisting merely
Abercrombie D   +33 more
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Phonetics and Ambiguity Comprehension Gated Attention Network for Humor Recognition

open access: yesComplex, 2020
Humor refers to the quality of being amusing. With the development of artificial intelligence, humor recognition is attracting a lot of research attention.
Xiaochao Fan   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
core   +2 more sources

TEACHING PHONETICS TO ENHANCE PRONUNCIATION IN AN ESL CLASSROOM

open access: yesJournal of Critical Reviews, 2020
This paper highlights the importance of English pronunciation for an ESL learner while speaking the language to a native speaker as well as understanding the context of another English speaker.
M. Priya, S. PrasanthaKumarN
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Associating the origin and spread of sound change using agent-based modelling applied to /s/-retraction in English

open access: yesGlossa, 2019
The study explored whether an asymmetric phonetic overlap between speech sounds could be turned into sound change through propagation around a community of speakers. The focus was on the change of /s/ to /ʃ/ which is known to be more likely than a change
Florian Schiel   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

An acoustic study of vowel production in Persian aphasic speech [PDF]

open access: yes̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2014
Two anterior aphasic patients (one man and one woman) were recorded for their productions of six Persian vowels and were compared to a group of four normal speakers (two men and two women).
Mansooreh Shekaramiz
doaj   +1 more source

Speaking Rate Effects on Locus Equation Slope [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

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