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Three questions regarding the prosodic system of the Lithuanian language
Lietuvių Kalba, 2017 This article addresses more questions than suggested by its title (those mentioned in the title are the most relevant and common ones) and provides very few answers. However, the key aim of this article is exactly that – to shed some light to the aspects
Vytautas Kardelis
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Perception of the acoustic properties of Serbian lexical pitch accents
Estudios de Fonética ExperimentalIn this study, we explored to what extent native speakers of Serbian are perceptually sensitive to the acoustic properties of Serbian lexical pitch accents—namely pitch and length—and how accurately they distinguish between different lexical pitch ...
Dušan Nikolić
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IEEE Access, 2020 Accented pronunciation variability is one of the key elements that deteriorate the accuracy of the automatic speech recognition (ASR). This article reports the results of the acoustic analysis of the two groups of speakers' variability caused by regional
Shafkat Kibria +3 more
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Research in Language, 2023 The study explores the effectiveness of raising prosodic awareness in teaching academic presentations to a mixed proficiency group of adult Polish students majoring in English from the perspective of prosody as well as utterance fluency measures.
Agata Klimczak-Pawlak +1 more
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Compound stress in educated Igbo and Yoruba accents of Nigerian English
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 This study examines compound stress in Igbo and Yoruba accents of Nigerian English and juxtaposes their patterns with Standard British English (SBE). Speech recorded from 60 educated Igbo and Yoruba speakers of Nigerian English and three Britons served ...
Omotosho Moses Melefa +1 more
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The modelling of prenuclear accents in Central Catalan declaratives
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2003 The aim of this paper is to examine the phonetic and phonological properties of prenuclear accents in Central Catalan declaratives within the Autosegmental-Metrical approach of intonational analysis.
Eva Estebas-Vilaplana
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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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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Oxygen‐tunnel (OT) indium tin oxide (ITO) vertical channel transistors (VCTs) enable reliable, high‐density gain‐cell memory for monolithic 3D integration. A sandwiched SiN/SiO2/SiN OT stack selectively regulates oxygen transport, suppressing parasitic electrode oxidation while stabilizing channel oxygen vacancies, thereby suppressing carrier injection
Hyeonho Gu +17 more
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2003 It has been generally thought that Northern varieties of European Portuguese (EP) are more conservative than Standard (Lisbon) EP, and show some similarity with Spanish.
Marina Vigario, Sónia Frota
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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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