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Speech synthesis by phonological structure matching

open access: yes6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999
This paper presents a new technique for speech synthesis by unit selection. The technique works by specifying the synthesis target and the speech database as phonological trees, and using a selection algorithm which finds the largest parts of trees in the database which match parts of the target tree.
Taylor, Paul, Black, Alan W
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Phonological structure in speech recognition

open access: yesPhonology, 1986
Contains fulltext : 5941.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
A. Cutler
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Defining iconicity: An articulation-based methodology for explaining the phonological structure of ideophones

open access: yesGlossa, 2019
Iconicity is when linguistic units are perceived as ‘sounding like what they mean,’ so that phonological structure of an iconic word is what begets its meaning through perceived imitation, rather than an arbitrary semantic link.
A. Thompson, Youngah Do
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Prosodic domains in Brazilian Portuguese: intonational, segmental and rhythmic evidence

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2004
The PhD dissertation Domínios prosódicos no Português do Brasil: implicações para a prosódia e para a aplicação de processos fonológicos deals with the prosodic structure of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and compares it with the prosodic structure of ...
Renaud Beeckmans
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A phonological description of Naba

open access: yesAfrika und Übersee, 2022
Naba, also known as Bilala, is a Nilo-Saharan (Sara-Bagirmi) language of Chad with about 410,000 speakers from three ethnic groups. This paper gives a basic description of the Naba phonological system, using segmental phonology and lexical phonology ...
Elaine Marie Scherrer
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An overview of theories of the syntax-phonology interface

open access: yesAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2008
This article is intended as a critical survey of the phonological theories of the syntax-phonology interface. These theories can be divided into two main groups, according to the role they attribute to syntactic representations in creating ...
Gorka Elordieta
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Cleft lip and palate: Relationship between phonological awareness and audiological characteristics in children

open access: yesJournal of Cleft Lip Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies, 2021
Context: Cleft lip and palate (CLP) stands out due to its esthetic-functional impact and its high incidence. Phonological awareness involves skills related to the structure of language, and children with CLP may experience impairment in these skills due ...
Mônica Elisabeth Simons Guerra   +4 more
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Echoes of L1 Syllable Structure in L2 Phoneme Recognition

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Learning to move from auditory signals to phonemic categories is a crucial component of first, second, and multilingual language acquisition. In L1 and simultaneous multilingual acquisition, learners build up phonological knowledge to structure their ...
Kanako Yasufuku, Gabriel Doyle
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Geminate timing in Lebanese Arabic: the relationship between phonetic timing and phonological structure

open access: yes, 2014
This study investigates medial gemination patterns in Lebanese Arabic (LA). It offers an account of the duration patterns of quantity distinction for vowels and consonants in LA by using the most comprehensive dataset for this variety, and for Arabic in ...
G. Khattab, Jalal Al-Tamimi
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