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In this paper, syllable duration (Vowel-to-Vowel unit) and F0 variation are analyzed as cues to distinguish the prosodization of prepositional clitic-host sequence from a syllable within a prosodic word in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). A production task was
Lilian Maria da Silva+1 more
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Representation of Yorùbá Tones by a Talking Drum. An Acoustic Analysis
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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Il mito dell’isocronia moraica in giapponese: un’analisi quantitativa basata su corpora orali
Pike (1945) classified the world languages into two types of rhythmic/prosodic patterns: stress-timed and syllable-timed. According to this classification, stress-timed languages, like English and German, tend to have isochronous interstress intervals ...
Giuseppe Pappalardo
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The syllable’s role in speech production: Are syllables chunks, schemas, or both? [PDF]
Two experiments, one using the masked priming technique combined with very brief prime exposures and the other using a new technique, the induction technique, were run in order to investigate the role of syllabic structure in speech production. Experiment 1 (masked priming) showed no effect when primes shared only the abstract syllabic structure ...
Ferrand, Ludovic, Segui, Juan
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Initial consonant cluster epenthesis in Turkish and its implications to EFL
The phonological structure of Turkish does not allow word-initial consonant clusters. That is, the syllable onset position of borrowed vocabulary requires the insertion of an epenthetic high vowel.
Namık Ülkersoy+2 more
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Three cheers, Michel, strong,each like will to wrest from earthwhat must help us live. You helped us live, man,men not yet known to men. Strangewhat things we have been. Once-hard-to know factsjust a-b-c’s to us now.Stand up, Michel. Bow. Copyright © 2008 by James A. Emanuel. All rights reserved.
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From a synchronic point of view, the accentuation of Late Polabian has been clarified by Trubetzkoy (1929) and Olesch (1973, 1974). The stress fell on the last full vowel of a word form, which was found either in the final or in the penulti-mate syllable.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Subband-Based Group Delay Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech into Syllable-Like Units
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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Reviewing the musical component of rhythm of "poetry" and the factors influencing it [PDF]
‘Rhythm’ is the most important component in the music of poetry. In this paper, in addition to defining rhythm, we have studied relative components which have most influence on the music of poetry.
Ma’sumeh Ma’dankan+2 more
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Segmental duration as a cue to syllable boundaries in Czech
The aim of the study is to establish whether the acoustic signal contains cues to the syllabification of words that are perceptually relevant, as suggested by previous research.
Pavel Šturm
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