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LanguagesAlthough prosodic differences in autistic individuals have been widely documented, little is known about their ability to perceive and interpret specific prosodic features, such as contrastive pitch accent—a prosodic signal that places emphasis and helps
Pumpki Lei Su +3 more
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Exploiting Contextual Information for Prosodic Event Detection Using Auto-Context [PDF]
, 2013 Prosody and prosodic boundaries carry significant information regarding linguistics and paralinguistics and are important aspects of speech. In the field of prosodic event detection, many local acoustic features have been investigated; however ...
Johnson, Michael T +5 more
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Prominence and Expectation in Speech and Music Through the Lens of Pitch Processing
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Speech and music reflect extraordinary aspects of human cognitive abilities. Pitch, as an important parameter in the auditory domain, has been the focus of previous research on the relations between speech and music. The present study continues this line
Xiaoluan Liu, Xiaoluan Liu
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Elements of Brazilian Portuguese intonation
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2009 Experimental results on Brazilian Portuguese (BP) intonation are reported, concentrating on speakers from the Campinas area. A combined production and perception study shows that four nuclear contours are produced and distinguished: statements (H+L* L%),
Filomena Sandalo +2 more
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Focus perception in Japanese: Effects of lexical accent and focus location.
PLoS ONE, 2022 This study explored the contexts in which native Japanese listeners have difficulty identifying prosodic focus. Using a 4AFC identification task, we compared native Japanese listeners' focus identification accuracy in different lexical accent × focus ...
Albert Lee, Faith Chiu, Yi Xu
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Dutch listeners’ responses to Dutch, British and American English accents in three contexts.
Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021 The aim of this study was to assess Dutch listeners’ responses to native-accented Englishes compared with Dutch-accented English in terms of speech understandability and speech evaluations in three professional communication contexts. In a matched-guise
Warda Nejjari +3 more
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Japanese pitch accent in an English/Nupe/Hausa trilingual [PDF]
, 2017 Pitch accent, which distinguishes words in Standard Japanese, is difficult for speakers of English to acquire. This is likely to be because pitch in English does not have lexical function.
Muradás-Taylor, Becky
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Predicting extreme defects in additive manufacturing remains a key challenge limiting its structural reliability. This study proposes a statistical framework that integrates Extreme Value Theory with advanced process indicators to explore defect–process relationships and improve the estimation of critical defect sizes. The approach provides a basis for
Muhammad Muteeb Butt +8 more
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Ancient Greek Pitch Accent, Not Stress*
Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2023 Ancient Greek accent involves both stress and tone (Allen 1973, Steriade 1988). We present here a new piece of evidence for the details of the tonal part, based on a lowering process whereby a H tone on the final TBU of a word lowers if the word is followed by another tonic word: H...H → L...H. This is essentially what is reported for Rimi, a Tanzanian
Chris Golston, Christian Paulsen
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This study investigates laser shock peening for enhancing fatigue performance of riveted aerospace aluminum joints. A comparative approach with cold expansion combines fatigue testing and synchrotron X‐ray methods. Integrating mechanical testing with residual stress and strain characterization provides insights into how different treatments affect the ...
Ogün Baris Tapar +6 more
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