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É possível integrar o discreto e o contínuo em um modelo de produção do ritmo da fala?

open access: yesCadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011
A model of speech rhythm production is proposed that is able to explain the differences found between the durational patterns of stress- and syllable-timed languages from strict considerations of timing.
Plínio Almeida Barbosa
doaj   +1 more source

Putting Prosody First – Some Practical Solutions to a Perennial Problem: The Innovalangues Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents some of the difficulties of teaching languages, in particular English, in the context of LSP/LAP2 programmes in French universities.
Frost Dan, Picavet Francis
core   +1 more source

James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of language factors in a multilingual stutterer

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
The apparently predictable occurrence of stuttering in English-speaking stutterers has been well documented and has revealed a number of rules regarding stuttering loci known as the language factors. This study investigated the presence of these language
Nola Watt
doaj   +1 more source

Co‐opted Boards and the Obfuscation of Financial Reports

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
This study investigates the relationship between board co‐option and the obfuscation of financial disclosures in a comprehensive sample of 9,620 10‐K filings by 1,076 US‐listed firms between 1996 and 2018. Our empirical results are consistent with our hypotheses that board co‐option partly explains the obfuscation of financial reports.
Abongeh A. Tunyi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

InCHORRRuS: Infant-Directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy Through Rhythmic Structure. [PDF]

open access: yesAnn N Y Acad Sci
In the InCHORRRuS (Infant‐directed (ID) Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy through Rhythmic Structure) framework, increased rhythmicity in ID speech and the beat‐based metrically structured rhythmicity in ID song naturally organize the multimodally redundant and repetitive cues in the caregiver's communicative signals ...
Alviar C, Jones W, Lense M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Investigating the Relationship Between Early Speech Milestones and Oral–Motor Development in Infants

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim This study aimed to determine whether infants' oromotor skills were related to the onset of babbling and their phonetic inventory at 6 months of age. Methods Parents of 50 6‐month‐old infants (41 full‐term, 9 preterm) completed the Child Oral and Motor Proficiency Scale (ChOMPS), a valid and reliable caregiver‐report measure of oromotor ...
K. M. Allison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phonological Identity of the Neutral-tone Syllables in Taiwan Mandarin: An Acoustic Study

open access: yesActa Linguistica Asiatica, 2018
Taiwan Mandarin, one of the more syllable-timed dialects of Mandarin, has fewer unstressed syllables than Standard Mandarin. Acoustic analyses show that the supposedly unstressed syllables—neutral-tone syllables—in Taiwan Mandarin behave differently ...
Karen HUANG
doaj   +1 more source

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