'Team Speech Sounds'-How Speech and Language Therapists Work With Parents of Young Children With Speech Sound Disorder: A Focus Group Study. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background Speech sound disorder (SSD) is common amongst children on speech and language therapy caseloads, with most of these children being between 2 and 6 years old. SSD that persists into a child's school years can have a lasting impact on literacy development, socio‐emotional outcomes and well‐being.
Pritchard K +3 more
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Word-initial rhotic avoidance: a typological survey
This paper addresses the issue of word-initial rhotic avoidance (WIRA) from a typological point of view. Its first aim is to document WIRA cross-linguistically, based on the examination of a sample of 200 languages designed by the WALS (Dryer and ...
Laurence Labrune
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The study of Polish phonotactics: Measures of phonotactic preferability
Celem niniejszej pracy jest zbadanie polskiej fonotaktyki z punktu widzenia roznych modeli preferencyjności. Inwentarz zbitek spolgloskowych wystepujących na początku i na koncu slowa zostal wyekstrahowany ze slownika oraz zanalizowany na podstawie zalozen Zasady Sonorności oraz Zasady Audiodystansu Netto.
Zydorowicz, Paulina, Orzechowska, Paula
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Production and processing asymmetries in the acquisition of tense morphology by sequential bilingual children [PDF]
This study investigates the production and on-line processing of English tense morphemes by sequential bilingual (L2) Turkish-speaking children with more than three years of exposure to English.
Baayen +19 more
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Structure and usage do not explain each other: an analysis of German word-initial clusters
The present study focuses on German word-initial consonant clusters and asks whether feature-based phonotactic preferences correlate with patterns of type and token frequencies in present-day usage.
Wiese Richard, Orzechowska Paula
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Vowel Phonotactics in Modern Korean Phonology: A Corpus-Based Approach
Ideophones are believed to exhibit distinct phonotactic patterns compared to regular language, in their expressiveness. Vowel harmony can be observed in ideophones in Modern Korean.
Tae-Jin Yoon
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Lexicality and frequency in specific language impairment: accuracy and error data from two nonword repetition tests [PDF]
Purpose: Deficits in phonological working memory and deficits in phonological processing have both been considered potential explanatory factors in Specific Language Impairment (SLI).
Baddeley A. D. +37 more
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Language Identification Using Visual Features [PDF]
Automatic visual language identification (VLID) is the technology of using information derived from the visual appearance and movement of the speech articulators to iden- tify the language being spoken, without the use of any audio information.
Cox, S, Newman, J
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Cumulative markedness effects and (non-)linearity in phonotactics
How do grammars assess the well-formedness of words with multiple phonotactic violations? Certain models predict that as the strength of phonotactic restrictions decrease, forms that violate multiple restrictions should be less acceptable than expected ...
Adam Albright, Canaan Breiss
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Porting concepts from DNNs back to GMMs [PDF]
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to outperform Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) on a variety of speech recognition benchmarks. In this paper we analyze the differences between the DNN and GMM modeling techniques and port the best ideas from the ...
Demuynck, Kris, Triefenbach, Fabian
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