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Italian in the no-man's land between stress-timing and syllable-timing? speakers are more stress-timed than listeners [PDF]

open access: yesInterspeech 2011, 2011
How syllable-timed is Italian? We investigate two contexts for vowel reduction, unstressed syllables and syllables in polysyllabic words. In a production experiment, a large sample of speakers from Tuscany read di- and trisyllabic target words with different stress placement in a sentence context. Results showed vowel reduction in unstressed syllables,
Braun, Bettina, Geiselmann, Sabine
openaire   +2 more sources

Equine chorionic gonadotropin treatment and timed artificial insemination for dairy cow production under heat stress

open access: yesThe Journal of Reproduction and Development, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

"Syllable-timing in Brazilian Portuguese": uma crítica a Roy Major Tempo-silábico em português do Brasil: a critic to Roy Major

open access: yesDELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2000
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
doaj   +1 more source

Rhythm and Vowel Quality in Accents of English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In a sample of 27 speakers of Scottish Standard English two notoriously variable consonantal features are investigated: the contrast of /m/ and /w/ and non-prevocalic /r/, the latter both in terms of its presence or absence and the phonetic form it takes,
D. Abercrombie   +14 more
core   +2 more sources

Logopenic and nonfluent variants of primary progressive aphasia are differentiated by acoustic measures of speech production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Differentiation of logopenic (lvPPA) and nonfluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA) variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia is important yet remains challenging since it hinges on expert based evaluation of speech and language production.
A Bechara   +63 more
core   +3 more sources

Kai kurie akustiniai lietuvių kalbos ritmiškumo parametrai

open access: yesBaltistica, 2013
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
doaj   +1 more source

An acoustic investigation of the developmental trajectory of lexical stress contrastivity in Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Rhythm Class Perception by Expert Phoneticians [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper contributes to the recent debate in linguistic-phonetic rhythm research dominated by the idea of a perceptual dichotomy involving “syllable-timed” and “stress-timed” rhythm classes. Some previous studies have shown that it is difficult both to
Rathcke, Tamara, Smith, Rachel
core  

Speech rhythm: a metaphor? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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
core   +1 more source

Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is a rare but life‐threatening metabolic emergency in children that occurs in less than 1% of pediatric cancer cases, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% across different studies. While it is observed in 10%–20% of adult malignancies, pediatric HCM remains relatively uncommon.
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
wiley   +1 more source

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