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Lithuanian priegaidė: a syllable or a word feature?
Vilnius University Open Series, 2022 The place of priegaidė ‘syllable intonation’ in the phonological system of Lithuanian remains uncertain; so does its typological peculiarity. The article aims to discover the specific nature of this phonological feature taking into consideration the ...
Aleksey Andronov
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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2011 We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Lee, Wai-Sum, Stevens, Mary
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Syllabification of Standard Lithuanian in terms of the sonority theory
Vilnius University Open Series, 2022 The article discusses the research which aims to ascertain whether the sonority of sounds could be used to determine boundaries of syllables in consonant clusters and if this principle is commonly employed by a sample of language users.
Asta Kazlauskienė
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Data-driven Extraction of Intonation Contour Classes [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper we introduce the first steps towards a new datadriven method for extraction of intonation events that does not require any prerequisite prosodic labelling.
Reichel, Uwe D.
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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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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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Why computational models are better than verbal theories: the case of nonword repetition [PDF]
, 2014 Tests of nonword repetition (NWR) have often been used to examine children’s phonological knowledge and word learning abilities. However, theories of NWR primarily explain performance either in terms of phonological working memory or long-term knowledge,
Archibald +68 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This study presents a highly sensitive, oxidation‐resistant, biocompatible, and degradable Janus piezoresistive electronic skin for sustainable wearable electronics. The electronic skin exhibits sensitive and stable response across a broad pressure range, exceptional oxidation resistance, and Janus wettability.
Joon Kim +5 more
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