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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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Quantifying and Characterizing Phonetic Reduction in Italian Natural Speech
LanguagesThe main purpose of this study is to test a method for the analysis of phonetic variation in natural speech. The method takes into account the continuous nature of the speech flow and allows for the investigation of the systematic variation phenomena ...
Loredana Schettino, Francesco Cutugno
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Representation of Yorùbá Tones by a Talking Drum. An Acoustic Analysis
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2019 The present paper proposes an articulatory and acoustic study of the representation of Yorùbá tones in gángan (a talking drum). The video and spectrographic analyses of the data collected from five native drummers in Nigeria show that the number of ...
Samuel Akinbo
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Elevated Connectivity During Language Processing Is Associated With Cognitive Performance in SeLECTS
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Self‐Limited Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes (SeLECTS) is associated with language impairments despite seizures originating in the motor cortex, suggesting aberrant cross‐network interactions. Here we tested whether functional connectivity in SeLECTS during language tasks predicts language performance.
Wendy Qi +8 more
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Effects of syllable name change on pitch comparison
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2020 Previous research has found that musicians’ pitch judgments, unlike non-musicians’, are influenced by syllable names. Although non-musicians fail to identify absolute pitches, they acknowledge the direction of pitch change.
Zhiqiao Wang, Qingfen Hu
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Durations of repeated non-words for children with cochlear implants [PDF]
, 2016 Durations of syllables for repeated non-words were calculated for 76 children with cochlear implants (CIs) and 16 children with normal hearing (NH). Average syllable durations did not differ significantly between the groups, however a final syllable ...
Johnson, Kathryn Marguerite
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A sequence‐encoded supramolecular construct containing two accessible toeholds is developed herein for enabling multiple editing operations. By introducing specific input strands, it is possible to selectively erase or rewrite digital content through parallel or series toehold‐mediated strand displacement (PTMSD or STMSD).
Jakub Ossowski +3 more
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Subband-Based Group Delay Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech into Syllable-Like Units
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2004 In the development of a syllable-centric automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, segmentation of the acoustic signal into syllabic units is an important stage.
Nagarajan T, Murthy HA
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ON THE QUESTION OF GLIDE FORMATION AND NASALITY IN Ẹ DO SYLLABLE [PDF]
Езиков святPrevious assumptions suggest that there is no regressive vowel nasalisation in Ẹ do, a language spoken in southern Nigeria. It is also generally believed that the process of glide formation applies automatically in the Ẹ do syllable patterning ...
Osaigbovo Obed Evbuomwan +1 more
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