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What Is the Role of Thalamostriatal Circuits in Learning Vocal Sequences?
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021 Basal ganglia (BG) circuits integrate sensory and motor-related information from the cortex, thalamus, and midbrain to guide learning and production of motor sequences. Birdsong, like speech, is comprised of precisely sequenced vocal elements.
Lei Xiao, Todd F. Roberts
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Rhythm and Vowel Quality in Accents of English [PDF]
, 2010 In a sample of 27 speakers of Scottish Standard English two notoriously variable consonantal features are investigated: the contrast of /m/ and /w/ and non-prevocalic /r/, the latter both in terms of its presence or absence and the phonetic form it takes,
D. Abercrombie +14 more
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A fast and accurate zebra finch syllable detector. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The song of the adult male zebra finch is strikingly stereotyped. Efforts to understand motor output, pattern generation, and learning have taken advantage of this consistency by investigating the bird's ability to modify specific parts of song under ...
Ben Pearre +3 more
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Stress Deafness in Tehrani and Kermani Varieties of Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2022 Stress deafness is the difficulty in the perception of stress in the speakers of a language which does not deal with its contrastive function (Peperkamp et al., 2010).
Anis Masoumi, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
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Speech and music discrimination: Human detection of differences between music and speech based on rhythm [PDF]
, 2016 Rhythm in speech and singing forms one of its basic acoustic components. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the capability of subjects to distinguish between speech and singing when only the rhythm remains as an acoustic cue.
Knörzer, Christian +4 more
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Is Spanish really syllable-timed?
Journal of Phonetics, 1980 Abstract The previously published experimental work carried out on rhythm in spoken Spanish is examined in an attempt to establish whether or not Spanish belongs to the group of languages called syllable-timed. At first the evidence appears to be contradictory, but close examination of the figures from the experiments leads me to the conclusion that ...
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Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study [PDF]
, 2014 This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: duration and formant structure.
Abercrombie +66 more
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Acta Psychologica, 2022 Though previous research has examined how implicit meter can facilitate the processing of stress-timed languages, syllable-timed languages, such as Chinese, remain under studied.
Jiaxin Long, Tianlin Wang, Miao Yu
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The Effect of IP Constituent Position and Foot Complexity on Timing in Polish Learner's English Pronunciation [PDF]
, 2010 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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Near visual function measured with a novel tablet application in patients with astigmatism
Clinical and Experimental Optometry, EarlyView., 2020 Clinical relevance While the clinical focus of performance metrics is traditionally based on visual acuity, research from the field of visual impairment has demonstrated that metrics such as reading speed and critical print size correlate much more strongly with subjective patient reported outcomes and assessed ability in real‐world tasks.
Ananya Datta +8 more
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