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A Phonological Comparison of Gamale, Sheram and Ghusbang – Three Kham Varieties [PDF]
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017 This paper compares the phonologies of Gamāle, Sheram and Ghusbāng, three closely related southern varieties of Khām. The vowel and consonant inventories, suprasegmentals and phonotactics of each variety is described in turn, after which the ...
Christopher P. Wilde
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Sociolinguistic variation in the rhythm of Nigerian English speech
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 125-143, March 2026.Abstract There is a dearth of research on speech rhythm in Nigerian English, and scholars have differing views on its nature, ranging from being syllable‐timed to tone‐timed. Apart from the fact that the majority of few available studies were conducted more than a decade ago, the exact nature of speech rhythm in Nigerian English remains contentious ...
Folajimi Oyebola, Osemudiamhe Ilekura
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Voice Quality in British English. Its Nature, Functions and Applications
Anglophonia, 2019 This paper deals with the functions of voice quality. It also suggests that a number of practical applications can be derived from the study of these functions.Like e.g. Laver (1968; 1980), Sharpe (1970) or Mackenzie-Beck (2005), we take voice quality to
Stephan Wilhelm
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Machine Assisted Analysis of Vowel Length Contrasts in Wolof [PDF]
, 2017 Growing digital archives and improving algorithms for automatic analysis of text and speech create new research opportunities for fundamental research in phonetics. Such empirical approaches allow statistical evaluation of a much larger set of hypothesis
Besacier, Laurent +2 more
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Use of Automation Technologies and Data Mining in Speech Recognition for Autism
Brain and Behavior, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.Pipeline analyzes clinical and naturalistic speech using LENA, wav2vec 2.0, and foundation‐model ASR (Whisper) to enable scalable ASD detection and severity estimation. Future work integrates benchmarking, privacy‐preserving collaboration (federated learning), and explainable, edge‐ready AI for clinically credible assessment and longitudinal monitoring.
Rongjie Mao, Yuncheng Zhu
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Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2014 This paper follows the line of contrastive linguistics and aims to analyze the contrast mechanism that differentiates stressed from unstressed syllables, in Brazilian Portuguesa (BP) and Spanish, in relation to duration.
Letânia Patricio FERREIRA
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Repeated reading and Chinese oral‐reading fluency: Is prosodic sensitivity an indispensable link?
Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 49, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract Background This quasi‐experimental study tested whether prosodic sensitivity serves as a mediator through which an 8‐week repeated reading intervention improves Chinese oral reading fluency. Methods Seventy‐nine typically developing Chinese Grades 4–6 students, including 39 in the experimental group and 40 in the control group, were recruited ...
Li‐Chih Wang +3 more
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Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 175-186, February 2026.This scoping review highlights that in the selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) literature, the emphasis still remains on impairment‐based outcomes in the body function and structure domain of the ICF. However, there has been a small shift towards participation and quality‐of‐life outcomes in the last decade.
Deepti Chugh +7 more
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Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 1996 The communicative method has been criticized because in stressing the negotiation of meaning and the speakers intentions, accuracy has become a minor goal.
Cristina Frodden, Maria McNulty
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Speech Characteristics of Japanese Speakers Affecting American and Japanese Listener Evaluations
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2010 The study examines what pronunciation features (i.e., segmental and suprasegmental features, as well as other acoustic properties such as speech rate, intensity, pitch, and pitch range) affect the intelligibility of Japanese learners of English, when ...
Atsuko Kashiwagi, Michael Snyder
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