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The interaction of syllabification and voicing perception in american english [PDF]
, 2013 The current paper explores these two sorts of phonetic explanations of the relationship between syllabic position and the voicing contrast in American English.
Jong, Kenneth de +2 more
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Journal of Educational Measurement, EarlyView.Abstract This article addresses bias in Spoken Language Systems (SLS) that involve both Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and reports experiments to improve the performance of SLS for automated language and literacy‐related assessments with students who are under served in the U.S. educational system.
Alison L. Bailey +5 more
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Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Temporal‐sampling theory suggests that lexical stress discrimination plays an important role in language disorders. This study explored whether this is also the case in Down syndrome (DS) and, particularly, whether lexical stress discrimination could contribute to accounting for the phonological and grammatical skills of teenagers ...
Elena López‐Riobóo +1 more
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Towards a typology of stop assibilation [PDF]
, 2009 In this article we propose that there are two universal properties for phonological stop assibilations, namely (i) assibilations cannot be triggered by /i/ unless they are also triggered by /j/, and (ii) voiced stops cannot undergo assibilations unless ...
Hall, Tracy Alan, Hamann, Silke
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Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.Abstract Reports of patients with impaired verbal short‐term memory are central to the debate of whether there are independent short‐term stores or whether immediate repetition is supported by activated long‐term memory. Patients with selective impairments of verbal short‐term memory support models with independent buffers.
Tobias Bormann +5 more
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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A translated utopia: Embodied communication, media ideologies, and Star Trek's Universal Translator
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper uses Star Trek's “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference. Although such a technology does not exist, taking its potentialities seriously as folkloric devices allows for an exploration of ideologies relating to ...
Sarah Shulist
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Evolution, Structuralism and Chomsky : An Introduction to Issues involving Rules, Constraints and Universal Grammar in Modern Generative Phonology [PDF]
, 2005 Peter M. Skaer
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how commodification practices of Ruhrdeutsch, a formerly stigmatized variety, contribute to local language awareness and enregisterment. Following the decline of the Ruhr Area's heavy industry and the shift from the secondary to the tertiary economic sector, companies have discovered the value of local marketing ...
Nantke Pecht
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