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This study investigated the effects of timed artificial insemination (TAI) and equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) administration on lactating dairy cows under heat-stress conditions (average temperature-humidity index: 80). Timed artificial insemination
Daisuke FUNAKOSHI +2 more
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An acoustic investigation of the developmental trajectory of lexical stress contrastivity in Italian [PDF]
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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A tese de R. Major, segundo a qual haveria evidências para se considerar o português brasileiro (PB) como "stress-timing" ou tendendo para tal, é rediscutida.
Plínio Almeida BARBOSA
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Speech rhythm: a metaphor? [PDF]
Is speech rhythmic? In the absence of evidence for a traditional view that languages strive to coordinate either syllables or stress-feet with regular time intervals, we consider the alternative that languages exhibit contrastive rhythm subsisting merely
Abercrombie D +33 more
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Language Experience and Phonetic Training as Factors Influencing Timing Organisation in Polish Learners of English [PDF]
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]
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]
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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Speech and music discrimination: Human detection of differences between music and speech based on rhythm [PDF]
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]
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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Kai kurie akustiniai lietuvių kalbos ritmiškumo parametrai
Šio tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti skaitomos lietuvių kalbos ritmiškumo rodiklius, susijusius su garsinių segmentų trukme. Analizuojama penkių profesionalių diktorių (trijų vyrų ir dviejų moterų) perskaitytos ištraukos iš grožinių kūrinių (kiekvienas jų ...
Asta Kazlauskienė
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