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Language discrimination by newborns: Teasing apart phonotactic, rhythmic, and intonational cues [PDF]
, 2002 Speech rhythm has long been claimed to be a useful bootstrapping cue in the very first steps of language acquisition. Previous studies have suggested that newborn infants do categorize varieties of speech rhythm, as demonstrated by their ability to ...
Ramus, Franck
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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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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
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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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The Interlanguage Rhythm of Algerian EFL Undergraduates
Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2016 This paper is an attempt to classify the rhythm of the interlanguage produced by third year Algerian EFL students at Constantine 1 University. The nature of speech rhythm classes has been hotly debated as to whether it should be conceived as a discrete ...
Amel ALOUACHE
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Neural mechanisms for turn-taking in duetting plain-tailed wrens
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2022 Recent studies conducted in the natural habitats of songbirds have provided new insights into the neural mechanisms of turn–taking. For example, female and male plain–tailed wrens (Pheugopedius euophrys) sing a duet that is so precisely timed it sounds ...
Melissa J. Coleman +2 more
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Syllable timing as a function of position-in-utterance in infant babbling [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1976 For several years now it has been known that a number of languages show regular variations of syllable duration as a function of position-in-utterance. The most striking finding has been that final syllable vowels (in English, for instance) are up to 125 msec longer than comparable nonfinal syllable vowels.
D. Kimbrough Oller, Bruce Smith
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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
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Rhythmic unit extraction and modelling for automatic language identification [PDF]
, 2005 International audienceThis paper deals with an approach to Automatic Language Identification based on rhythmic modelling. Beside phonetics and phonotactics, rhythm is actually one of the most promising features to be considered for language ...
André-Obrecht, Régine +3 more
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Molecular theranostics: principles, challenges and controversies
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 156-164, March 2025.Molecular theranostics offers a powerful tool to drive precision medicine in nuclear oncology. While theranostics is not a new principle in nuclear medicine, recent advances in instrumentation and radiopharmacy have driven a reinvigoration and a broader suite of applications.
Geoffrey Currie
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