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Looking for Rhythm in Speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A brief review is provided of the study of rhythm in speech. Much of that activity has focused on looking for empirical measures that would support the categorization of languages into discrete rhythm ‘types’.
Cummins, Fred
core   +2 more sources

Pre‐service teachers' explicit and implicit stereotypes towards pupils with different special educational needs

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Successful inclusion in education depends heavily on the attitudes of teachers, and stereotypes play a significant role in shaping these attitudes. However, social desirability bias may limit direct measures of stereotypes. Combining direct and indirect measures offers better insights.
Charlotte S. Schell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Language identification with suprasegmental cues: A study based on speech resynthesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This paper proposes a new experimental paradigm to explore the discriminability of languages, a question which is crucial to the child born in a bilingual environment.
Mehler, Jacques, Ramus, Franck
core  

Executive functions and school achievement: The mediating role of learning‐related behaviour in primary school children

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Executive functions (EFs) are critical in school and closely linked to academic achievement and learning‐related behaviours (LRBs). LRBs encompass the ability to adapt to school demands, including concentration, adherence to rules, and autonomy.
Carlotta Rivella, Paola Viterbori
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

The Diagnostic Odyssey of a Biochemically Confirmed Case of ML II: The First Western Patient With LYSET Deficiency

open access: yesClinical Genetics, EarlyView.
We identify a female patient with a homozygous nonsense variant (p.Gln38Ter) in the LYSET gene. This is the first western report of a challenging case of an extensive diagnostic odyssey and demonstrates that the LYSET gene must be considered in the differential diagnosis when M6P‐labeled lysosomal enzymes are altered.
Fernanda Sperb‐Ludwig   +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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