Lithuanian priegaidė: a syllable or a word feature?
Vilnius University Open Series, 2022 The place of priegaidė ‘syllable intonation’ in the phonological system of Lithuanian remains uncertain; so does its typological peculiarity. The article aims to discover the specific nature of this phonological feature taking into consideration the ...
Aleksey Andronov
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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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Designing and Piloting a Tool for the Measurement of the Use of Pronunciation Learning Strategies [PDF]
, 2010 What appears to be indispensable to drive the field forward and ensure that research findings will be comparable across studies and provide a sound basis for feasible pedagogic proposals is to draw up a classification of PLS and design on that basis a ...
A. Cohen +26 more
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Selected features of Philippine English pronunciation among three groups of Ilocano speakers
Journal of Modern LanguagesThis paper describes the pronunciation of Philippine English by Ilocano speakers from three provinces of Region II in the Philippines: Nueva Vizcaya, Isabela, and Cagayan.
L. I Haloc, S. N Dita
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Teaching English allomorphs through ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret’ movie
Edulite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture, 2020 The study is primarily concerned with the use of ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret’ to teach English allomorphs in EFL classrooms. This paper is an alternative way to teach them as a significant element of pronunciation.
Asfi Aniuranti, Tono Suwartono
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Speech vocoding for laboratory phonology [PDF]
, 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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Rhythm and Vowel Quality in Accents of English [PDF]
, 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
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The Syntax-Prosody Interface: Catalan interrogative sentences headed by que
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007 This article explores the syntactic and prosodic characteristics of polar questions headed by unstressed particles such as que ‘that’ or o ‘or’ in different Catalan dialects (vg. Que plou? ‘Is it raining?’).
Gemma Rigau, Pilar Prieto
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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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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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