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A magyar és a mandarin kínai hangrendszer összehasonlító elemzése a nyelvpedagógia szemszögéből
Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2020 The goal of this paper is to provide the linguistic groundwork for future advances towards more effective ways of teaching the pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese to Hungarian learners.
Qiuyue Ye, Huba Bartos
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Employing Emotion Cues to Verify Speakers in Emotional Talking Environments
, 2016 Usually, people talk neutrally in environments where there are no abnormal talking conditions such as stress and emotion. Other emotional conditions that might affect people talking tone like happiness, anger, and sadness.
Shahin, Ismail
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The perception of English-accented polish – a pilot study [PDF]
, 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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Perception of suprasegmental and segmental features [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1974 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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Frontiers in CommunicationHuman 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
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Language testing and international intelligibility : a Hong Kong case study
, 2013 A central issue in language testing is the choice of norms, and the need to reconcile notions of “standard” English with local language norms and features.
SEWELL, Andrew
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Spectral Characteristics of Schwa in Czech Accented English [PDF]
, 2013 The English central mid lax vowel (i.e., schwa) often contributes considerably to the sound differences between native and non-native speech. Many foreign speakers of English fail to reduce certain underlying vowels to schwa, which, on the suprasegmental
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Automatic utterance type detection using suprasegmental features
5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), 1998 The goal of the work presented here is to automatically predict the type of an utterance in spoken dialogue by using automatically extracted suprasegmental information. For this task we present and compare three stochastic algorithms: hidden Markov models, artificial neural nets, and classification and regression trees.
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The Politeness Prosody of the Javanese Directive Speech [PDF]
, 2009 This experimental phonetic research deals with the prosodies of directive speech in Javanese. The research procedures were: (1) speech production, (2) acoustic analysis, and (3) perception test.
Rahyono, F. X. (F)
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Teaching English Pronunciation of Suprasegmental Features on Students of English Education
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 The objective of this research is to know the technique and activity in teaching English pronunciation on suprasegmental features (intonation and stress). This research uses qualitative approach with descriptive method.
Ahmad Yousef Bani
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