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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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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

The Role of Phonetic Units in Speech Emotion Recognition [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 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 ...
arxiv  

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
core   +1 more source

Neural network models for phonology and phonetics

open access: yesJournal of Language Modelling, 2020
This paper argues that if phonological and phonetic phenomena found in language data and in experimental data all have to be accounted for within a single framework, then that framework will have to be based on neural networks. We introduce an artificial
P. Boersma, Titia Benders, K. Seinhorst
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
core   +1 more source

Factors Influencing the Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese as a Second Additional Language Focusing on Phonetics

open access: yesParticipatory Educational Research, 2020
Mandarin has been added to the list of second additional languages (SAL) that South African learners can choose from. The researchers proactively conducted research pertaining to SAL (Mandarin) since it is a dynamic phenomenon in South Africa.
N. Nel, Soezin Krog
semanticscholar   +1 more source

In Time with the Beat: Entrainment in Patients with Phonological Impairment, Apraxia of Speech, and Parkinson’s Disease

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
In the present study, we investigated if individuals with neurogenic speech sound impairments of three types, Parkinson’s dysarthria, apraxia of speech, and aphasic phonological impairment, accommodate their speech to the natural speech rhythm of an ...
Ingrid Aichert   +5 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
core   +2 more sources

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