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Effective Strategies for Teaching Arabic Prosody in Oral Communication Skills

open access: yesQubahan Academic Journal
An emphasis on the elements of prosody was crucial for achieving full proficiency in a spoken language. The research focused on prosody, which included components such as stress, intonation, pauses, and mora. This study aimed to evaluate the proficiency
Nur Syukriyah Mohd Suib   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emotional Prosody Effects on Verbal Memory in Euthymic Patients With Bipolar Disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
A growing body of evidence suggests that emotional prosody influences the ability to remember verbal information. Although bipolar disorder (BD) has been shown to be associated with deficits in verbal memory and emotional processing, the relation between
Mario Altamura   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overt and implicit prosody contribute to neurophysiological responses previously attributed to grammatical processing

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Recent neurophysiological research suggests that slow cortical activity tracks hierarchical syntactic structure during online sentence processing. Here we tested an alternative hypothesis: electrophysiological activity peaks at constituent phrase as well
Anastasia Glushko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Politeness Prosody of the Javanese Directive Speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This experimental phonetic research deals with the prosodies of directive speech in Javanese. The research procedures were: (1) speech production, (2) acoustic analysis, and (3) perception test.
Rahyono, F. X. (F)
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Affective prosody and facial emotion recognition in first-episode schizophrenia: Associations with functioning & symptoms

open access: yesSchizophrenia Research: Cognition, 2019
Studies indicate that people with schizophrenia experience deficits in their ability to accurately detect emotions, both through facial expressions and voice intonation (i.e., prosody), and that functioning and symptoms are associated with these deficits.
Kelsey A. Bonfils   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Atypical neural responses to vocal anger in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background Deficits in facial emotion processing, reported in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), have been linked to both early perceptual and later attentional components of event-related potentials (ERPs).
Banaschewski   +59 more
core   +2 more sources

Infant selective attention to native and non-native audiovisual speech

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
The current study utilized eye-tracking to investigate the effects of intersensory redundancy and language on infant visual attention and detection of a change in prosody in audiovisual speech. Twelve-month-old monolingual English-learning infants viewed
Kelly C. Roth   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Final Rises in task-oriented and conversational dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper examines the distribution of utterance final pitch rises in dialogues with different task structures. More specifically, we examine map-task and topical conversation dialogues of Southern Standard British English speakers in the IViE corpus ...
Lai, Catherine
core   +1 more source

Intonation and discourse : biased questions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper surveys a range of constructions in which prosody affects discourse function and discourse structure.We discuss English tag questions, negative polar questions, and what we call “focus” questions.
Asher, Nicholas, Reese, Brian
core  

Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
Zena Fadel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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