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What is missing to confirm a typology of rhythm? : theoretical observations and a preliminary application to two Greek varieties

Neograeca Bohemica
Since 1940, numerous eff orts have been made to either verify or refute the hypothesis of a rhythm typology, yet no defi nitive conclusions have been reached.
Michail I. Marinis
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Intelligibility of locally time-reversed speech: A multilingual comparison

Scientific Reports, 2017
A set of experiments was performed to make a cross-language comparison of intelligibility of locally time-reversed speech, employing a total of 117 native listeners of English, German, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.
Kazuo Ueda, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Wolfgang Ellermeier, Florian Kattner   +3 more
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The Effect of Listening Strategy Intervention on the Development of Young Learners’ L2 Listening Skills

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The impact of strategy intervention on second language (L2) listening development has been explored in various contexts; however, research on both implicit and explicit listening strategy interventions for young learners remains limited.
Pelin Irgin, Munevver Ilgun‐Dibek
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Animal fluency in people with Parkinson's disease: Item‐based performance before and after deep brain stimulation surgery

Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.
Abstract People with Parkinson disease (PD) after surgery for deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN‐DBS) often decline in animal fluency due to impairments in executive functions and/or language. Item‐based measures of animal fluency may shed light on the specific nature of this decline, and into the strategies used when ...
Adrià Rofes, Nikki Janssen, Janine Rook, Eva de Ronde, R. Saman Vinke, Rianne A. J. Esselink, Annelien A. Duits   +6 more
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An Open CAPT System for Prosody Practice: Practical Steps towards Multilingual Setup

Languages
This paper discusses the challenges posed in creating a Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) environment for multiple languages. By selecting one language from each of three different language families, we show that a single environment may be
John Blake, Natalia Bogach, Akemi Kusakari, Iurii Lezhenin, Veronica Khaustova, Son Luu Xuan, Van Nhi Nguyen, Nam Ba Pham, Roman Svechnikov, Andrey Ostapchuk, Dmitrei Efimov, Evgeny Pyshkin   +11 more
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Double dissociation between conduction aphasia and conduction agraphia supports a ventro‐dorsal partition of the left arcuate fasciculus

Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.
Abstract We identified in two awake surgery cases a postoperative double dissociation between phonological and graphemic output buffer deficits. Using lesion‐symptom mapping from ischaemic mini‐strokes and preoperative tractography, we demonstrated that the phonological (resp. graphemic) disorder fitted with ventral (resp.
Valéry Mandonnet, Isabelle Poisson, Francine Chassoux, Bertrand Devaux, Sébastien Froelich, Emmanuel Mandonnet   +5 more
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The Range and Diversity of Vocalic Systems in Asian Languages [PDF]

, 2003
The purpose of this paper is first to present a general overview of the language families of Asia and what is presently commonly accepted as the relationships between these families.
Reid, Lawrence A.
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Stuttering in a Syllable-Timed Tone Language

, 2020
Stuttering is a developmental speech disorder affecting the fluency of speech. The cause of stuttering is not fully understood. Evidence has suggested an underlying speech neural processing deficit that is influenced by linguistic and environmental factors.
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Comparative Analysis of Oral Hypofunction in Community‐Dwelling Adults in Japan and Clinic‐Recruited Community‐Dwelling Adults in Switzerland: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, EarlyView.
Oral hypofunction (OHF) was assessed using standardised diagnostic criteria in Japan and Switzerland. Both populations showed age‐related decline, with higher prevalence and progression in Switzerland, underscoring the cross‐cultural validity of OHF criteria and the importance of tailored prevention.
Risako Mikami, Matsuo Koichiro, Lisa Takeshita, Misaki Tanaka, Claudio Rodrigues Leles, Dusit Nantanapiboon, Rena Hidaka, Manabu Kanazawa, Murali Srinivasan   +8 more
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