An acoustic investigation of the developmental trajectory of lexical stress contrastivity in Italian [PDF]
, 2016 We examined whether typically developing Italian children exhibit adult-like stress contrastivity for word productions elicited via a picture naming task (n=25 children aged 3\u20135 years and 27 adults).
Arciuli, Joanne, Colombo, Lucia
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Language Experience and Phonetic Training as Factors Influencing Timing Organisation in Polish Learners of English [PDF]
, 2014 The paper investigates the dynamics of speech rhythm in Polish learners of English and, specifically, how rhythm measurements revealing durational characteristics of vocalic and consonantal intervals through the measures (%V, ΔV, ΔC, VarcoV, VarcoC and ...
Gralińska-Brawata, Anna
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Rhythmic constraints on English stress timing [PDF]
4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1996), 1996 The evidence for isochrony of stress timing is weak for ordinary prose, but this does not mean that the timing of stresses is always unaffected by global constraints. We asked subjects to continually repeat the phrase "Take a pack of cards" and to temporally align the words "take" and "cards" with an auditorily presented stimulus consisting of just the
F. Cummins, R.F. Port
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Polyploidy: an evolutionary and ecological force in stressful times [PDF]
The Plant Cell, 2020 Abstract Polyploidy has been hypothesized to be both an evolutionary dead-end and a source for evolutionary innovation and species diversification. Although polyploid organisms, especially plants, abound, the apparent nonrandom long-term establishment of genome duplications suggests a link with environmental conditions.
Yves Van de Peer +3 more
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Temporal Parameters of Spontaneous Speech in Forensic Speaker Identification in Case of Language Mismatch: Serbian as L1 and English as L2 [PDF]
, 2017 Celem badania jest analiza możliwości identyfikacji mówcy kryminalistycznego i sądowego podczas zadawania pytań w różnych językach, z wykorzystaniem parametrów temporalnych.
TOMIĆ, Kristina
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Speech and music discrimination: Human detection of differences between music and speech based on rhythm [PDF]
, 2016 Rhythm in speech and singing forms one of its basic acoustic components. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the capability of subjects to distinguish between speech and singing when only the rhythm remains as an acoustic cue.
Knörzer, Christian +4 more
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The Effect of IP Constituent Position and Foot Complexity on Timing in Polish Learner's English Pronunciation [PDF]
, 2010 A comparison of native and Polish learners' performance shows similar durations of stressed and pitch accented syllables. The unstressed syllables and syllable clusters, on the other hand, are significantly longer in non-native speech, and the ...
Porzuczek, Andrzej
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The Relationship Between English and Polish Rhythm Measures in Polish Learners of English [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates native and non-native speech rhythm in the speech of Polish learners of English at an intermediate/upper-intermediate level. More specifically, it attempts to explore the relationship between rhythm measures scores in L1 Polish ...
Gralińska-Brawata, Anna
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The psychological reality of rhythm classes: Perceptual studies [PDF]
, 2003 Linguists have traditionally classified languages into three rhythm classes, namely stress-timed, syllable-timed and mora-timed languages. However, this classification has remained controversial for various reasons: the search for reliable acoustic cues ...
Dupoux, Emmanuel +2 more
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Treatment Decision‐Making Roles and Preferences Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Decision‐making (DM) dynamics between adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, parents, and oncologists remain underexplored in diverse populations. We examined cancer treatment DM preferences among an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of AYAs and their parents.
Amanda M. Gutierrez +14 more
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