Temporal Parameters of Spontaneous Speech in Forensic Speaker Identification in Case of Language Mismatch: Serbian as L1 and English as L2 [PDF]
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2017 The purpose of the research is to examine the possibility of forensic speaker identification if question and suspect sample are in different languages using temporal parameters (articulation rate, speaking rate, degree of hesitancy, percentage of pauses,
Kristina TOMIĆ
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Is It About Speech or About Prediction? Testing Between Two Accounts of the Rhythm–Reading Link [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: The mechanisms underlying the positive association between reading and rhythmic skills remain unclear. Our goal was to systematically test between two major explanations: the Temporal Sampling Framework (TSF), which highlights the ...
Susana Silva +6 more
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An acoustic analysis of the rhythm of Yemeni Arabic
Journal of Modern Languages, 2019 Previous studies have found that different Arabic dialects display different degrees of stress-timing features forming a continuum that ranges from more stress-timed to less stress-timed Arabic dialects.
Nada Mohammed Salem, Stefanie Pillai
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The rhythmic type of Persian: A phonological perspective [PDF]
نشریه 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
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Stress Deafness in Tehrani and Kermani Varieties of Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2022 Stress deafness is the difficulty in the perception of stress in the speakers of a language which does not deal with its contrastive function (Peperkamp et al., 2010).
Anis Masoumi, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
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Functional timing or rhythmical timing, or both? A corpus study of English and Mandarin duration
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 It has been long held that languages of the world are divided into rhythm classes so that they are either stress-timed, syllable-timed or mora-timed. It is also known for a long time that duration serves various informational functions in speech.
Chengxia Wang, Yi Xu, Jinsong Zhang
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Stress, time use and gender [PDF]
electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, 2007 This paper studies the gender aspect of stress within a Scandinavian welfare state regime with high employment rates for both women and men. By applying an economic model, an extended model and a stress-level model, we find that higher incomes lead to stress among women, somewhat confirming findings for Australia, Germany, Canada, Korea, and the US ...
Jens Bonke, Frederik Gerstoft
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Rhythm Related Effects in Erzya; 268-282 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 This article focuses on some of the findings from a cross-dialect study of stress and quantity in Erzya that provide support for the idea of rhythmic variability in the language.
Niina Aasmäe
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Rhythm in the speech of a person with right hemisphere damage: Applying the pairwise variability index [PDF]
, 2007 Although several aspects of prosody have been studied in speakers with right hemisphere damage (RHD), rhythm remains largely uninvestigated. This study compares the rhythm of an Australian English speaker with right hemisphere damage (due to a stroke ...
Abercrombie D +30 more
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Il mito dell’isocronia moraica in giapponese: un’analisi quantitativa basata su corpora orali
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020 Pike (1945) classified the world languages into two types of rhythmic/prosodic patterns: stress-timed and syllable-timed. According to this classification, stress-timed languages, like English and German, tend to have isochronous interstress intervals ...
Giuseppe Pappalardo
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