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Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016 Oral skills are important components of language competence. To have good and acceptable listening and speaking, one must have good pronunciation, which encompasses segmental and suprasegmental features. Despite extensive studies on the role of segmental
Mohammad Hadi Mahmoodi, Sorour Zekrati
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A destressing "deafness" in French? [PDF]
, 1997 French is a language in which accent is mandatory on the last syllable of every content word. In contrast, Spanish uses accent to distinguish different lexical items (e.g., b'ebe vs beb'e).
Dupoux, E. +3 more
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From Focus on Sounds to Focus on Words in English Pronunciation Instruction [PDF]
, 2010 The authors present a report on the experiment in which a group of 25 Polish secondary school pupils has undergone a special training in the pronunciation of 50 commonly mispronounced words with the use of special, teacher-designed materials.
Stasiak, Sławomir +1 more
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Non-manuals and tones : a comparative perspective on suprasegmentals and spreading [PDF]
Linguística, 2016 Sign languages, i.e. language in the visual-gestural modality, are known to make abundant use of grammatical non-manual markers (NMMs) that fulfill functions at all linguistic levels.
Roland Pfau
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EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2010 Speaker identification performance is almost perfect in neutral talking environments. However, the performance is deteriorated significantly in shouted talking environments.
Ismail Shahin
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017 Intact phonological processing is crucial for successful literacy acquisition. While individuals with difficulties in reading and spelling (i.e., developmental dyslexia) are known to experience deficient phoneme discrimination (i.e., segmental phonology),
Claudia Männel +4 more
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Emirati-Accented Speaker Identification in each of Neutral and Shouted Talking Environments
, 2018 This work is devoted to capturing Emirati-accented speech database (Arabic United Arab Emirates database) in each of neutral and shouted talking environments in order to study and enhance text-independent Emirati-accented speaker identification ...
Bahutair, Mohammed +2 more
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Contrastive tone in Kalam Kohistani
Linguistic Discovery, 2004 It has been observed that tonal phenomena occur in quite a few Indo-Aryan languages in the northwestern corner of the South-Asian subcontinent. This paper presents a study of the tone system of one of these languages, Kalam Kohistani.
Joan L.G. Baart
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ENHANCING THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH SUPRASEGMENTAL FEATURES THROUGH REFLECTIVE LEARNING METHOD
TEFLIN Journal, 2014 Suprasegmental features are of paramount importance in spoken English. Yet, these pronunciation features are marginalised in EFL/ESL teaching-learning.
Suwartono Suwartono
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Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using two-pass decision tree construction [PDF]
, 2010 This paper demonstrates how unsupervised cross-lingual adaptation of HMM-based speech synthesis models may be performed without explicit knowledge of the adaptation data language.
Byrne, WJ +4 more
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