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Categoricity, Variation, and Gradience in Sambla Balafon Segmental Encoding
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper analyzes the musical surrogate encoding of Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso) syllable structure on the balafon, a resonator xylophone used by the Sambla ethnicity.
Laura McPherson
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Non-native patterns of English syllable timing
Journal of Phonetics, 1985 This study compared the timing of syllables in the speech of non-native speakers of English with American English timing patterns. The subjects, native speakers of Thai, Malaysian and Japanese, read English words in isolation and with one and two syllable suffixes added.
Z.S. Bond, Joann Fokes
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The Relationship Between English and Polish Rhythm Measures in Polish Learners of English [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates native and non-native speech rhythm in the speech of Polish learners of English at an intermediate/upper-intermediate level. More specifically, it attempts to explore the relationship between rhythm measures scores in L1 Polish ...
Gralińska-Brawata, Anna
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SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 The present study investigates the rhythmic properties of the non-native speech produced by multilingual learners with Mandarin Chinese as a heritage language who acquire French as foreign languages in the German school context.
Gabriel Christoph +2 more
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Rhythm Related Effects in Erzya; 268-282 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 This article focuses on some of the findings from a cross-dialect study of stress and quantity in Erzya that provide support for the idea of rhythmic variability in the language.
Niina Aasmäe
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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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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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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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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.
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