The Power of Syllabic Stress in Changing the Lexical Meanings of the Holy Quran [PDF]
آموزههای قرآنی, 2022 Different meanings of the written language are shown by the analysis of the spoken language of the Holy Quran. In the meantime, the influence of stress [syllable vocal pressure in opposition to another syllable] as a semantic distinguishing element ...
Sayyid Heydar Far‘ Shirazi
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Information theoretic syllable structure and its relation to the c-center effect [PDF]
, 2013 Established phonological theories postulate uniform syllable constituent structures. From a traditional hierarchical point of view, syllables are right branching implying a close connection between the nucleus and the coda.
Reichel, Uwe D.
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Representational Bias in Unsupervised Learning of Syllable Structure [PDF]
, 2005 Unsupervised learning algorithms based on Expectation Maximization (EM) are often straightforward to implement and provably converge on a local likelihood maximum. However, these algorithms often do not perform well in practice.
Johnson, Mark +3 more
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Phonological Awareness and Nonword Repetition in Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorders: A Comparative Analysis. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to compare phonological awareness and verbal working memory skills, as measured by a nonword repetition task, in children with speech sound disorders (SSD) and typically developing peers. It also examined the relationship between these two cognitive‐linguistic abilities within each group.
Icoz Ö, Özcebe E.
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Multi-Time Resolution Analysis of Speech
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2015 How speech signals are analyzed and represented remains a foundational challenge both for cognitive science and neuroscience. A growing body of research, employing various behavioral and neurobiological experimental techniques, now points to the ...
Maria eChait +4 more
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The syllable as a prosodic unit in Japanese lexical strata: Evidence from text-setting
Glossa, 2017 Text-setting, the arrangement of language to music, is a common source of evidence in the debate over the relevance of the syllable in Japanese prosody (e.g., Labrune 2012).
Rebecca Lurie Starr, Stephanie S. Shih
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Syllable retrieval precedes sub-syllabic encoding in Cantonese spoken word production. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Two experiments were conducted to investigate the time course of syllabic and sub-syllabic processing in Cantonese spoken word production by using the picture-word interference task.
Andus Wing-Kuen Wong +3 more
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The syllabification of /sw/ in Italian and the phonological status of /w/
IsoglossThis study investigates the phonetics and phonology of word-initial /sw/ clusters in Italian, aiming to discern the syllabic parsing of the sequence and the phonological status of the glide /w/.
Piero Cossu
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The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels
Glossa, 2017 This paper reports the results of two experiments on the acoustics of French mid vowels in a variety in which close-mid vowels ([e], [ø], [o]) occur in open syllables and open-mid vowels ([ɛ], [oe], [ɔ]) in closed syllables, according to the loi de ...
Benjamin Storme
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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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