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This research aimed to improve pronunciation teaching for junior high school students by integrating the learning material's segmental and suprasegmental features of pronunciation. This classroom action research was conducted in three cycles.
Muhamad Rasyid Al Mawardi +2 more
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Assessment and Diagnostic Standards of Childhood Apraxia of Speech in Turkish-Speaking Children: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder for which assessment and diagnostic standards have been largely informed by studies of English‐speaking populations. Evidence related to CAS in Turkish‐speaking children remains sparse, is published across both Turkish‐ and English‐language sources, and variable in ...
Wong ECH, Karamete A, Noyan-Erbaş A.
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On the Efficacy of Employing Translanguaging in Teaching Problematic Pronunciation Features to Iranian EFL Learners [PDF]
Pronunciation remains a persistent challenge for English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. This is particularly important in contexts where segmental/suprasegmental features differ from those of learners’ first language.
Musa Nushi +2 more
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Lithuanian priegaidė: a syllable or a word feature?
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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Syllable-Level Representations of Suprasegmental Features for DNN-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis [PDF]
A top-down hierarchical system based on deep neural networks is investigated for the modeling of prosody in speech synthesis. Suprasegmental features are processed separately from segmental features and a compact distributed representation of high-level ...
Oliver Watts +5 more
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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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The Effect of L1 Suprasegmental Features on L2 Learners’ Speaking Performance [PDF]
Undertanding suprasegmental features of both English (L2) and Indonesian (L1) will make Indonesian EFL learners able to adjust their verbal communication easily.
Muzammil, Lasim
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Prosodic structure and suprasegmental features [PDF]
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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Perception of suprasegmental and segmental features [PDF]
This study reports the results of an experiment in which perception of a suprasegmental feature dominated perception of a segmental feature. The test language is Icelandic. Stimuli based on a minimal triple /ka:ka/ “cake,” /kak:a/ “keg (oblique),” and /kahka/ “to heap up,” were prepared on a terminal analog synthesizer. Variables include duration of V1,
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Short-term perceptual reweighting in suprasegmental categorization [PDF]
Segmental speech units such as phonemes are described as multidimensional categories whose perception involves contributions from multiple acoustic input dimensions, and the relative perceptual weights of these dimensions respond dynamically to context ...
Chisom Obasih +7 more
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