Stød Timing and Domain in Danish
This study investigates the timing of stød, a type of phonological nonmodal phonation related to creaky voice in Danish, relative to the syllable. Stød-bearing syllables are characterized by high fundamental frequency (F0) and modal phonation at the ...
Jailyn M. Peña
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Rhythm in the speech of a person with right hemisphere damage: Applying the pairwise variability index [PDF]
Although several aspects of prosody have been studied in speakers with right hemisphere damage (RHD), rhythm remains largely uninvestigated. This study compares the rhythm of an Australian English speaker with right hemisphere damage (due to a stroke ...
Abercrombie D +30 more
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Análisis experimental del ritmo de la lengua catalana
Our analysis is based on a study of Os (1984) about two rhythmically distinct languages: Dutch (stress-timed language) and Italian (syllable-timed language).
Montse Cantin, Antonio Ríos
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Syllable Timing in Repetition Disfluency [PDF]
This paper investigates rhythmic patterns in 3-cycle repetition disfluency (e.g. We went to the park and1 and2 and3 watched the birds...). Results show a harmonic timing effect: in a slow-speech set of corpus data, the distribution of and2 phases relative to the and1 to and3 interval is trimodal (χ 2 = 20.1, p < .005), with modes approximating low ...
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Using the beat histogram for speech rhythm description and language identification [PDF]
In this paper we present a novel approach for the description of speech rhythm and the extraction of rhythm-related features for automatic language identification (LID).
Lykartsis, Athanasios, Weinzierl, Stefan
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Relationship between the Sequencing and Timing of Vocal Motor Elements in Birdsong. [PDF]
Accurate coordination of the sequencing and timing of motor gestures is important for the performance of complex and evolutionarily relevant behaviors. However, the degree to which motor sequencing and timing are related remains largely unknown. Birdsong
Andrew M M Matheson, Jon T Sakata
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Kai kurie akustiniai lietuvių kalbos ritmiškumo parametrai
Šio tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti skaitomos lietuvių kalbos ritmiškumo rodiklius, susijusius su garsinių segmentų trukme. Analizuojama penkių profesionalių diktorių (trijų vyrų ir dviejų moterų) perskaitytos ištraukos iš grožinių kūrinių (kiekvienas jų ...
Asta Kazlauskienė
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Acoustic Correlations of Speech Rhythms in Persian Based on Variability of Between-speakers Characteristics [PDF]
The durational variability of phonetic intervals is considered as one of the properties of speech rhythm. These intervals include segmental, vowel, consonantal, vocalic, intervocalic, voiced, unvoiced, syllable, and syllable peak intervals.
Nafiseh Taghva +2 more
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Linking gestural representations to syllable count judgments: A cross-language test
A special class of English words with tense vowel/diphthong nuclei and liquid codas receive variable syllable count judgments (one or over-one syllables).
Anisia Popescu, Ioana Chitoran
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The Effect of IP Constituent Position and Foot Complexity on Timing in Polish Learner's English Pronunciation [PDF]
A comparison of native and Polish learners' performance shows similar durations of stressed and pitch accented syllables. The unstressed syllables and syllable clusters, on the other hand, are significantly longer in non-native speech, and the ...
Porzuczek, Andrzej
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