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Neural Coding of Fundamental Frequency and Processing of Discrete Pitch Accents in Middle Age. [PDF]
Eur J NeurosciMiddle‐aged adults exhibited reduced neural encoding of fundamental frequency (F0) in response to both syllabic and naturalistic speech compared with younger adults. They also showed less distinct cortical processing of pitch accents, reflected by increased classification uncertainty in a neural network model.
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Variation in Interactive Gestures by Visual Occlusion and Topic Complexity: Evidence for a Subconscious Theory of Gesture. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Gestures are often categorized into types: iconics, metaphorics, and pantomimes (having representational relationships with spoken semantics), deictics (i.e., pointing), emblems (having their own conventional meaning), and beats (temporally coinciding with spoken content for emphasis).
Williamson TR, Kinsey K, Piasecki AE.
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It's Not Just What's Said, But How: The Disruption of Prosody Perception in Cognitive Decline and Hearing Loss [PDF]
Alzheimers DementAbstract Background Age related hearing loss (HL) is highly prevalent in older adults and is frequently exacerbated by cognitive decline, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). While speech communication primarily focusses on segmental content, the prosody‐ i.e suprasegmental aspects encompassing rhythm, stress and intonation play a critical role in ...
Agrawal D, Malo P, Krishnamurti S.
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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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Analisis Prosodi dalam Bahasa Batak Toba: Kajian Fonetik Akustik
Suar Betang, 2022 This study aims to analyze the prosody in the Batak Toba language using an acoustic-phonetic approach. The measurement of experimental speech sounds uses spectrum analysis with computer assistance.
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Prosodic structure and suprasegmental features [PDF]
The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2016 This paper presents a phonological analysis of a glottalization phenomenon in dialects of Danish known as 'short-vowel stød'. It is argued that both short-vowel stød and common Danish stød involve the attachment of a laryngeal feature to a prosodic node—specifically the mora.
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Speech intelligibility and prosody production in children with cochlear implants [PDF]
, 2012 Objectives—The purpose of the current study was to examine the relation between speech intelligibility and prosody production in children who use cochlear implants.
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South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1999 A review of the relevant literature indicates a lack of knowledge regarding suprasegmental speech characteristics in prelingual hearing impaired children with cochlear implants.
Adri Ligthelm, Emily Groenewald
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Perception of Fa by non-native listeners in a study abroad context [PDF]
, 2012 The present study aims at exploring the under-investigated interface between SA and L2 phonological development by assessing the impact of a 3-month SA programme on the pronunciation of a group of 23 Catalan/Spanish learners of English (NNSs) by means of
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Segmental and suprasegmental features of Brokpa [PDF]
Himalayan Linguistics, 2020 Author(s): Wangdi, Pema | Abstract: This paper analyzes segmental and suprasegmental features of Brokpa, a Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) language belonging to the Central Bodish (Tibetic) subgroup. Segmental phonology includes segments of speech including consonants and vowels and how they make up syllables.
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