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Newborns’ attention to socio-emotional prosodic cues from voices [PDF]

open access: yesiScience
Summary: Voices are among the most salient stimuli for social interactions. From birth, we can process both linguistic and socio-emotional aspects of voices, but it is not clear how these cues contribute to voice processing.
Valentina Silvestri   +6 more
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Hearing Tones, Missing Boundaries: Cross-Level Selective Transfer of Prosodic Boundaries Among Chinese–English Learners [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Second language (L2) learners often struggle to process prosodic boundaries, which are essential for speech comprehension. This study investigated the nature of these difficulties and how first language (L1) cue-weighting strategies transfer to L2 ...
Lan Fang   +4 more
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Attentional influences on cue weighting in vowel perception: Examining prosodic prominence and informational masking. [PDF]

open access: yesAtten Percept Psychophys
Abstract Beyond sources of listener-external variability such as variation in talker and acoustic context, listener-internal variation also plays a role in speech perception and cue weighting. The present study examines the effects of prosodic prominence, signaled by F0, and multi-talker babble noise as methods of
Zhang W, Steffman J.
europepmc   +3 more sources

The Relative Weight of Statistical and Prosodic Cues in Speech Segmentation: A Matter of Language-(In)dependency and of Signal Quality

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2011
In an artificial language setting, we investigated the relative weight of statistical cues (transitional probabilities, TPs) in comparison to two prosodic cues, Intonational Phrases (IPs, a language-independent cue) and lexical stress (a language ...
Paulo Ventura   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Weight Pattern of Tri-syllabic Words in Persian: Moraic Theory [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2022
This paper examines weight patterns in tri-syllabic words within a Moraic-theoretic account. A word weight pattern is weight of syllables and is defined based on distinction between heavy and light syllables (Carr, 2008:172); Here, the notion of mora ...
Hakimeh Fanoodi   +2 more
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Investigating the Reason for the Distinction between Skaz and the Magic of Proximity in Two ‎Sonnets by Fazel Nazari [PDF]

open access: yesLiterary Arts, 2022
Formalism is a school that looks at literary works regardless of possible historical, social, and political influences. Skaz is the tone of the narrator of a poem or story.
Ziba Ghalavandi   +1 more
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Foregrounding in the poems of Mohammad Saeed Al-Haboubi based on Jeffreylich's theory [PDF]

open access: yesنقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2021
Introduction: Seyed Mohammad Saeed Al-Haboubi is one of the contemporary poets who was born in Najaf in 1266 AH and died in 1333 AH. Al-Habubi's poetic themes were a description of nature and the sincere praise of religious friends and elders. His poetic
Hossain Gorji   +3 more
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The rhythmic type of Persian: A phonological perspective [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2023
In rhythmic typology, languages are categorized into stress-timed and syllable-timed types. Earlier studies have highlighted the isochrony of interstress intervals and syllables in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages, respectively.
Anis Masoumi, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
doaj   +1 more source

Lexical Benefits and the Novel Word Combinations in Devalrani and Khizrkhan Masnavi by Amir Khosrow Dihlavi [PDF]

open access: yesLiterary Arts, 2021
The Devalrani and Khizrkhan Masnavi by Amir Khosrow Dihlavi, composed in 715 (Hijri lunar), not only contains awakening points about history and the community and context of India in the seventh and early eighth century (Hijri lunar), but also includes ...
Amirhossein Dowlatshahi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Two-Level Speaker Identification System via Fusion of Heterogeneous Classifiers and Complementary Feature Cooperation

open access: yesSensors, 2021
We present a new architecture to address the challenges of speaker identification that arise in interaction of humans with social robots. Though deep learning systems have led to impressive performance in many speech applications, limited speech data at ...
Mohammad Al-Qaderi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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