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Online guided pronunciation practice helps adult EFL learners improve L2 prosody
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2023 This study tests the efficacy of a pronunciation course in developing advanced EFL learners’ expressive reading during a semester of online instruction.
Šárka Šimáčková +1 more
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The acquisition of English L2 prosody by Italian native speakers: experimental data and pedagogical implications [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates Yes-No question intonation patterns in English L2, Italian L1, and English L1. The aim is to test the hypothesis that L2 learners may show different acquisition strategies for different dimensions of intonation, and particularly ...
Busa', Maria Grazia, Stella, A.
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Understanding Focus: Pitch, Placement and Coherence [PDF]
, 2020 This paper presents a novel account of focal stress and pitch contour in English dialogue. We argue that one should analyse and treat focus and pitch contour jointly, since (i) some pragmatic interpretations vary with contour (e.g., whether an utterance ...
Lascarides, Alex, Schlöder, Julian J.
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A Japanese pitch accent practice program and L1 influence on pitch accent acquisition
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2018 Recent research has demonstrated that learners of Japanese struggle producing correct Japanese pitch accent. The goal of the present study was to investigate the effect learners’ first language (L1) may have on accent acquisition following the introduction and use of a digital Japanese Pitch Accent Learning and Practice (PALP) program in two Japanese ...
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Three‐dimensional Antimony Sulfide Based Flat Optics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This work presents the development of a grayscale electron beam lithography (g‐EBL) method for fabricating antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) nanostructures with customizable 3D profiles. The refractive index of g‐EBL patterned Sb2S3 is determined based on the synergy of genetic algorithm and transfer matrix method.
Wei Wang +18 more
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The dynamics of intonation: Categorical and continuous variation in an attractor-based model.
PLoS ONE, 2019 The framework of dynamical systems offers powerful tools to understand the relation between stability and variability in human cognition in general and in speech in particular.
Simon Roessig +2 more
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Infants’ perception of rhythmic patterns [PDF]
, 2006 We explored 9-month-old infants perception of auditory temporal sequences in a series of three experiments. In Experiment 1, we presented some infants with tone sequences that were expected to induce a strongly metric framework and others with a sequence
Bergeson, Tonya R., Trehub, Sandra E.
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Melt Grafting of Geometry‐Tailored Voltage Stabilizers for High‐Performance Polypropylene Insulation
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A scalable one‐step melt grafting strategy is developed to enhance the dielectric properties of isotactic polypropylene by covalently incorporating thermally stable aromatic voltage stabilizers. This solvent‐free approach improves volume resistivity and DC breakdown strength through deep trap formation and charge localization, offering a sustainable ...
Nazirul Mubin bin Normansah +9 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.An efficient NiOx HTL is successfully prepared by introducing MXene as an additive without further surface modification to fabricate high‐performance FASn0.5Pb0.5I3 perovskite solar cells. The introduction of MXene contributes to improved conductivity of NiOx, better aligned at NiOx/perovskite interfaces, and enhanced quality of perovskite films ...
Lijun Chen +12 more
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Non-Final Focus Accents in The Speech of Advanced Italian Learners of German
Linguistik Online, 2015 This study investigates the prosodic marking of focus in non-native German. Ten proficient learners of German with Italian L1 were recorded reading aloud 40 sentences containing mostly non-final focused constituents embedded in an adequate question ...
Peter Paschke, Barbara Vogt
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