Syllable retrieval precedes sub-syllabic encoding in Cantonese spoken word production. [PDF]
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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Syllable classification using static matrices and prosodic features [PDF]
In this paper we explore the usefulness of prosodic features for syllable classification. In order to do this, we represent the syllable as a static analysis unit such that its acoustic-temporal dynamics could be merged into a set of features that the ...
CUTUGNO, FRANCESCO+2 more
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BAStat : New Statistical Resources at the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals [PDF]
A new type of language resource ’BAStat’ has been released by the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals. In contrast to primary resources like speech and text corpora BAStat comprises statistical estimates based on a number of primary resources: first and ...
Calzolari, Nicoletta, Schiel, Florian
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Analysis of the Word-Initial Segment with Reference to Lemmatising Zulu Nasal Nouns
<p>The process of lemmatising nasal nouns in the Zulu lexicon is problematic. The traditional method is to lemmatise a Zulu lexical noun by etymological noun-stem. This practice creates difficulties in harmonising lexical nouns with their syntactic
M.H. Mpungose
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Dschang syllable structure [PDF]
The syllable structure of Dschang is interesting for a variety of reasons. Most notable is the aspiration which can appear on most consonant types, including voiced stops. I shall argue that aspiration is best viewed as moraic, contributing to the weight
Bird, Steven
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A Syllable-based Technique for Word Embeddings of Korean Words
Word embedding has become a fundamental component to many NLP tasks such as named entity recognition and machine translation. However, popular models that learn such embeddings are unaware of the morphology of words, so it is not directly applicable to ...
Choi, Sanghyuk+3 more
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An acoustic investigation of the developmental trajectory of lexical stress contrastivity in Italian [PDF]
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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The syllabification of /sw/ in Italian and the phonological status of /w/
This 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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Branchingness constraints on heads and dependents in Munster Irish stress
This paper readdresses the bounds between rhythm and constituency. It argues in favor of an arboreal representation of the metrical grid in which both metrical prominence, that is, grid marks, and prosodic categories are conflated into the same dimension
Ben Hermans, Francesc Torres-Tamarit
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Syllable Structure and the Distribution of Phonemes in English Syllables
Abstract In describing the phonotactics (patterning of phonemes) of English syllables, linguists have focused on absolute restrictions concerning which phonemes may occupy which slots of the syllable. To determine whether probabilistic patterns also exist, we analyzed the distributions of phonemes in a reasonably comprehensive list of uninflected ...
Rebecca Treiman, Brett Kessler
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