Rapid gains in segmenting fluent speech when words match the rhythmic unit: evidence from infants acquiring syllable-timed languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 The ability to extract word-forms from sentential contexts represents an initial step in infants’ process towards lexical acquisition. By age 6 months the ability is just emerging and evidence of it is restricted to certain testing conditions.
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Functional timing or rhythmical timing, or both? A corpus study of English and Mandarin duration [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 It has been long held that languages of the world are divided into rhythm classes so that they are either stress-timed, syllable-timed or mora-timed. It is also known for a long time that duration serves various informational functions in speech.
Chengxia Wang, Yi Xu, Jinsong Zhang
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The role of syllabic rhythm in speech perception across languages [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe insertion of silences at regular intervals restores the intelligibility of English utterances that have been accelerated beyond comprehension, as long as the duration of the resulting speech-silence chunks falls within the theta rhythm of natural ...
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Temporal Parameters of Spontaneous Speech in Forensic Speaker Identification in Case of Language Mismatch: Serbian as L1 and English as L2 [PDF]
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2017 The purpose of the research is to examine the possibility of forensic speaker identification if question and suspect sample are in different languages using temporal parameters (articulation rate, speaking rate, degree of hesitancy, percentage of pauses,
Kristina TOMIĆ
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The rhythmic type of Persian: A phonological perspective [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2023 In rhythmic typology, languages are categorized into stress-timed and syllable-timed types. Earlier studies have highlighted the isochrony of interstress intervals and syllables in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages, respectively.
Anis Masoumi, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
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Rate vs. rhythm characteristics of cluttering with data from a “syllable-timed” language [PDF]
Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2021 Cluttering is a type of fluency disorder characterized by a speech rate which is perceived to be fast and/or irregular as well as by an abnormal speech rhythm. As far as we know, no research has been conducted as yet using objective measurements and acoustic phonetic description on the rhythm of cluttered speech.
Judit Bóna, Anna Kohári
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Prosodic typology : on the dichotomy between stress-timed and syllable-timed languages [PDF]
, 2021 Pamies Bertrán, Antonio
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Acoustic Correlations of Speech Rhythms in Persian Based on Variability of Between-speakers Characteristics [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2020 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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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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Segmentation of Rhythmic Units in Word Speech by Japanese Infants and Toddlers
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 When infants and toddlers are confronted with sequences of sounds, they are required to segment the sounds into meaningful units to achieve sufficient understanding. Rhythm has been regarded as a crucial cue for segmentation of speech sounds.
Yeonju Cheong +2 more
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