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Defining 'Speech': Subtraction, Addition, and Division [PDF]
In free speech theory ‘speech’ has to be defined as a special term of art. I argue that much free speech discourse comes with a tacit commitment to a ‘Subtractive Approach’ to defining speech.
Simpson, Robert Mark
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In this paper I argue that pragmatic ability must become part of what we teach in the classroom if we are to realize the goals of communicative competence for our students.
Teaching Speech Acts
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Tactile modulation of emotional speech samples [PDF]
Copyright © 2012 Katri Salminen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly ...
Ahmaniemi, Teemu+7 more
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Assessing pragmatic abilities in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
The aim of the study was to explore pragmatic skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Six children with ASD between ages 3 to 8 years were chosen as the participants.
Mudra Dudwadkar+5 more
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• Background:Formant structure is one of the most important acoustic characteristics of Sounds.We can differentiate Vowels according to their first three Formants.
A Bahrami+4 more
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Introduction: There is a modest relationship between speech perception skills and perceived hearing handicap in individuals with hearing loss. In this study, an attempt is made at linking psychoacoustic results and speech perception skills to understand ...
Sindhu Parthasarathy+1 more
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Private Speech as Social Action [PDF]
An important theoretical construct within the Vygotskian sociocultural approach to second language learning is private speech. Within a conversation-analytic framework, an agnostic stance is taken in this paper toward the possible intrapsychological ...
Eric Hauser
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Speech Enhancement of Noisy and Reverberant Speech for Text-to-Speech [PDF]
Text-to-speech voices created from noisy and reverberant recordings are of lower quality. A simple way to improve this is to increase the quality of the recordings prior to text-to-speech training with speech enhancement methods such as noise suppression and dereverberation.
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao+1 more
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Seasonality sway birth and hearing loss?
Background Birth is a biological process that involves the emergence of an offspring. A seasonal variation in the frequency of births is reported as a universal phenomenon in the human population.
Teja D. Dessai+2 more
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SPEECH DISTURBANCES AND SPEECH THERAPEUTICS [PDF]
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