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An acoustic investigation of the developmental trajectory of lexical stress contrastivity in Italian [PDF]

, 2016
We examined whether typically developing Italian children exhibit adult-like stress contrastivity for word productions elicited via a picture naming task (n=25 children aged 3\u20135 years and 27 adults).
Arciuli, Joanne, Colombo, Lucia
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Comprehension of implied meaning in Chinese second language listening

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract Listening comprehension is crucial for second language (L2) communication and acquisition. However, it has received less attention than reading, given the transient nature of speech signals and the intangible cognitive processes involved in it.
Jiafan Zhang, Wei Cai
wiley   +1 more source

Emotion Recognition from Acted and Spontaneous Speech [PDF]

, 2014
Dizertační práce se zabývá rozpoznáním emočního stavu mluvčích z řečového signálu. Práce je rozdělena do dvou hlavních častí, první část popisuju navržené metody pro rozpoznání emočního stavu z hraných databází.
Atassi, Hicham
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Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht, Núria Esteve‐Gibert   +1 more
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Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome [PDF]

, 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, Lowit, Anja, Mennen, Ineke, Miller, Nick   +3 more
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SUPRASEGMENTAL FEATURES OF PRONUNCIATION

International Journal of Education and Social Science Research
This quantitative study utilized a descriptive research design that examined the suprasegmental skills, specifically pitch and stress, of the 41 Grade 12 students at a public school in Misamis Occidental. A researcher-made survey questionnaire was utilized, and the researchers adopted two reading materials from two different studies to measure the ...
Morelyn Sarmiento, Christian Senarillos, Rowena Seguerra, Laiza Kamille Sister, Cherry Lou Labor, Grace Marie Lagat, Sweet Nova Shane Royo, John Mark N. Saldivar   +7 more
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Interactions in processing segmental and suprasegmental features of speech [PDF]

Perception & Psychophysics, 1978
A speeded classification task was used to determine the nature of the dependency relation that exists during the processing of a segmental distinction in vowel quality and a suprasegmental distinction in pitch (Experiment 1) or loudness (Experiment 2) in a consonantvowel syllable.
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Speaker-invariant suprasegmental temporal features in normal and disguised speech [PDF]

Speech Communication, 2015
Bern and Zurich German differ in suprasegmental temporal features.Suprasegmental temporal features remain speaker-specific when a speaker imitates a dialect.Successful imitators adjust speaking rate and global peak-to-peak variability, among others.Suprasegmental temporal information can potentially enhance forensic voice comparison.
Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly
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Addressing Bias in Spoken Language Systems Used in the Development and Implementation of Automated Child Language‐Based Assessment

Journal of Educational Measurement, Volume 63, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
Abstract This article addresses bias in Spoken Language Systems (SLS) that involve both Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and reports experiments to improve the performance of SLS for automated language and literacy‐related assessments with students who are under served in the U.S. educational system.
Alison L. Bailey, Alexander Johnson, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Hariram Veeramani, Julie A. Washington, Abeer Alwan   +5 more
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Segmental and suprasegmental pronunciation training via AI: An exploration of university students’ perceptions and attitudes

Technology in Language Teaching & Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool in language learning, particularly for improving pronunciation. Although recent studies have highlighted AI’s effectiveness in pronunciation training, there has been limited in-depth ...
Khanh Nguyen Huu Lam, Tan Tran Thanh
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