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Speech Rhythm in Goan Konkani Speakers
Journal of Indian Speech Language & Hearing Association, 2019 Introduction Languages of the world vary in their rhythm. Rhythm is hierarchical in nature in language, as it is in music. All spoken languages exhibit isochronous units of speech, and all languages can be classified based on rhythm.
Theaja Kuriakose +2 more
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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2000 A tese de R. Major, segundo a qual haveria evidências para se considerar o português brasileiro (PB) como "stress-timing" ou tendendo para tal, é rediscutida.
Plínio Almeida BARBOSA
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An acoustic investigation of the developmental trajectory of lexical stress contrastivity in Italian [PDF]
, 2016 We examined whether typically developing Italian children exhibit adult-like stress contrastivity for word productions elicited via a picture naming task (n=25 children aged 3\u20135 years and 27 adults).
Arciuli, Joanne, Colombo, Lucia
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Perceptual adjustment to time-compressed Speech: a cross-linguistic study [PDF]
, 1998 revious research has shown that, when hearers listen to artificially speeded speech, their performance improves over the course of 10-15 sentences, as if their perceptual system was "adapting" to these fast rates of speech.
Christophe, Anne +4 more
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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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Analysis of language factors in a multilingual stutterer
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000 The apparently predictable occurrence of stuttering in English-speaking stutterers has been well documented and has revealed a number of rules regarding stuttering loci known as the language factors. This study investigated the presence of these language
Nola Watt
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Speech rhythm: a metaphor? [PDF]
, 2014 Is speech rhythmic? In the absence of evidence for a traditional view that languages strive to coordinate either syllables or stress-feet with regular time intervals, we consider the alternative that languages exhibit contrastive rhythm subsisting merely
Abercrombie D +33 more
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Syllable Effects in a Fragment Detection Task in Italian Listeners
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 In the line of the monitoring studies initiated by Mehler et al. (1981), a group of Italian listeners were asked to detect auditory CV and CVC targets in carrier words beginning with a CV, a CVC or a CVG (G = geminate) syllable with variable initial ...
Caroline eFloccia +4 more
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Is Basque a syllable-timed language?
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1988 -
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A destressing "deafness" in French? [PDF]
, 1997 French is a language in which accent is mandatory on the last syllable of every content word. In contrast, Spanish uses accent to distinguish different lexical items (e.g., b'ebe vs beb'e).
Dupoux, E. +3 more
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