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Dutch listeners' use of suprasegmental cues to English stress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Dutch listeners outperform native listeners in identifying syllable stress in English. This is because lexical stress is more useful in recognition of spoken words of Dutch than of English, so that Dutch listeners pay greater attention to stress in ...
Cooper, N.   +3 more
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Speech vocoding for laboratory phonology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Using phonological speech vocoding, we propose a platform for exploring relations between phonology and speech processing, and in broader terms, for exploring relations between the abstract and physical structures of a speech signal.
Benus, Stefan   +2 more
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Differential effects of hand and mouth gesture training on L2 English pronunciation: targeting suprasegmental and segmental features

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
Human communication inherently integrates speech and gesture. Acquiring second language (L2) pronunciation, encompassing both segmental (e.g., vowels) and suprasegmental features (e.g., rhythm, fluency), remains a major challenge. This study investigated
Noriko Yamane   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The perception of English-accented polish – a pilot study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
•Does familiarity with a specific foreign language facilitate the recognition and identification of that accent in foreign-accented ...
Radomski Marek   +1 more
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Relationship between working memory and suprasegmental perception in normal-hearing individuals across age

open access: yesThe Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology
Background Working memory (WM) plays a critical role in cognitive processes such as learning, language comprehension, and decision-making. While age-related changes in WM across different sensory modalities have been studied, its interaction with ...
Gayathri Kalarikkal, Chandni Jain
doaj   +1 more source

Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a motor speech disorder in which changes to segmental as well as suprasegmental aspects lead to the perception of a foreign accent in speech. This paper focuses on one suprasegmental aspect, namely that of intonation.
Kuschmann, Anja   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Development of Grammatical Components in English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper is intended to describe the development of gramatical components in English such as item, order and suprasegmental by conducting a diachronic study of a language.
Rudha Widagsa, M.A.
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Lexical stress information modulates the time-course of spoken-word recognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Segmental as well as suprasegmental information is used by Dutch listeners to recognize words. The time-course of the effect of suprasegmental stress information on spoken-word recognition was investigated in a previous study, in which we tracked Dutch ...
Jesse, A., McQueen, J., Reinisch, E.
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Comprehension of familiar and unfamiliar native accents under adverse listening conditions

open access: yes, 2009
This study aimed to determine the relative processing cost associated with comprehension of an unfamiliar native accent under adverse listening conditions. Two sentence verification experiments were conducted in which listeners heard sentences at various
Adank, P.   +3 more
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Current Issues in Pronunciation Teaching to Non-Native Learners of English

open access: yesJournal of Language and Cultural Education, 2019
Pronunciation plays an indisputable role in communication; even more so in communication between native and non-native speakers of English.
Vančová Hana
doaj   +1 more source

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