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Glossa, 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
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The Role of Phonetic Units in Speech Emotion Recognition [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 We propose a method for emotion recognition through emotiondependent speech recognition using Wav2vec 2.0. Our method achieved a significant improvement over most previously reported results on IEMOCAP, a benchmark emotion dataset. Different types of phonetic units are employed and compared in terms of accuracy and robustness of emotion recognition ...
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The phonetics of second language learning and bilingualism [PDF]
, 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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An acoustic study of vowel production in Persian aphasic speech [PDF]
̒Ilm-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
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Accounting for multicompetence and restructuring in the study of speech [PDF]
, 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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Oral English Proficiency Tests, Interpretive Labor, and the Neoliberal University
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 543-560, December 2022., 2022 Tests of English proficiency for international graduate students at US universities are neoliberal institutions which make (mis)communication the responsibility of individual workers. While cloaking themselves in a discourse of linguistic expertise, they require test‐takers to assimilate to white, upper class, American mannerisms.
Julia Nagai, Edwin K. Everhart
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Assimilation of Voicing in Czech Speakers of English: The Effect of the Degree of Accentedness [PDF]
, 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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Production of L3 Vowels: Is it Possible to Separate them from L1 and L2 Sounds? [PDF]
, 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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PHONETICS IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Russian Language Studies, 2018 The article is devoted to teaching foreign students Russian phonetics in modern system of education, problems of learning Russian sounds considering interference of the students’ native languages.
Marina N Shutova, Irina A Orekhova
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