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German glide formation functionally viewed [PDF]

, 2009
Glide formation, a process whereby an underlying high front vowel is realized as a palatal glide, is shown to occur only in unstressed prevocalic position in German, and to be blocked by specific surface restrictions such as *ji and *“j.
Hamann, Silke
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Rhythm in Korean verse, sico [PDF]

, 2015
Although rhythm in language and speech is elusive, the prosodic pattern in verse and the way language is aligned to music can reveal cross-linguistic differences in rhythm.
Jeon, Hae-Sung
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The preparation of syllables in speech production [PDF]

Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Models of speech production assume that syllables play a functional role in the process of word-form encoding in speech production. In this study, we investigate this claim and specifically provide evidence about the level at which syllables come into play.
Cholin, J., Schiller, N.O., Levelt, W.J.M.   +2 more
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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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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,
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The Language of Gángan, A Yorùbá Talking Drum

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
It is widely known that Yorùbá drummers communicate through their native drums. This paper investigates the grammar of gángan, which belongs to a family of Yoruba drums called dùndún.
Samuel Kayode Akinbo
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Exploiting Contextual Information for Prosodic Event Detection Using Auto-Context [PDF]

, 2013
Prosody and prosodic boundaries carry significant information regarding linguistics and paralinguistics and are important aspects of speech. In the field of prosodic event detection, many local acoustic features have been investigated; however ...
Johnson, Michael T, Liu, Jia, Xia, Shanhong, Yang, Hua, Zhang, Wei-Qiang, Zhao, Junhong   +5 more
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The time course of syllable frequency effects in the visual recognition of Korean morphologically complex nouns: an ERP study

Frontiers in Language Sciences
IntroductionThe syllable frequency effect refers to that during the lexical decision task, words beginning with high-frequency syllables elicit slower responses than words beginning with low-frequency ones, indicating an inhibitory effect.
Seoyeon Kwon, Solbin Lee, Joonwoo Kim, Kichun Nam   +3 more
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Syllable-, Bigram-, and Morphology-Driven Pseudoword Generation in Greek

Applied Sciences
Pseudowords are essential in (psycho)linguistic research, offering a way to study language without meaning interference. Various methods for creating pseudowords exist, but each has its limitations.
Kosmas Kosmidis, Vassiliki Apostolouda, Anthi Revithiadou   +2 more
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Convex cocompactness in mapping class groups via quasiconvexity in right-angled Artin groups [PDF]

, 2013
We characterize convex cocompact subgroups of mapping class groups that arise as subgroups of specially embedded right-angled Artin groups. That is, if the right-angled Artin group G in Mod(S) satisfies certain conditions that imply G is quasi ...
Mangahas, Johanna, Taylor, Samuel J.
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