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Pronunciation and Spelling Accuracy in English Words with Initial and Final Consonant Clusters by Arabic-Speaking EFL Learners

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Arabic phonotactics significantly differ from English phonotactics in that they usually follow a framework that forbids the presence of consonant clusters in syllabic onsets.
Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh, Najwa Ahmad AL-Junaid, Afakh Said Younes   +2 more
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Exploring the role of brain oscillations in speech perception in noise: Intelligibility of isochronously retimed speech

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016
A growing body of evidence shows that brain oscillations track speech. This mechanism is thought to maximise processing efficiency by allocating resources to important speech information, effectively parsing speech into units of appropriate granularity ...
Vincent Aubanel, Chris Davis, Jeesun Kim
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Lexical and sub-lexical knowledge influences the encoding, storage, and articulation of nonwords [PDF]

, 2011
Nonword repetition (NWR) has been used extensively in the study of child language. Although lexical and sub-lexical knowledge is known to influence NWR performance, there has been little examination of the NWR processes (e.g., encoding, storage ...
Jones, G, Witherstone, HL
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Japanese and English name truncations

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010
This paper looks into the structural properties of Japanese and English truncated names. Name truncation is considered to be a word-formation process and is analyzed from the perspective of Prosodic Morphology.
Andrei A. Avram
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Syllables in speech production: Effects of syllable preparation and syllable frequency

, 2004
Contains fulltext : 64769.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Language-universal constraints on the segmentation of English [PDF]

, 2000
Two word-spotting experiments are reported that examine whether the Possible-Word Constraint (PWC) [1] is a language-specific or language-universal strategy for the segmentation of continuous speech.
Butterfield, S., Cutler, A., Kearns, R., McQueen, J., Norris, D.   +4 more
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La syllabe et la découverte du sens dans l’énonciation : phonologie et langues en contact en FLE

Multilinguales, 2013
How can deviant utterances produce a significant speech? A learners’ corpus answers the question. Indeed, some metrical syllabic distribution seems to operate effectively in communication act, in spite of the atypical syntactic constructions, multiple ...
Maria‑Luisa Fernandez‑Echevarria
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Final proposal to encode Aegean scripts in the UCS [PDF]

, 2001
This is a proposal to encode the Linear B script, the Cypriot Syllabary, and a set of Aegean Numbers in the international character encoding standard Unicode.
Anderson, Deborah, Everson, Michael
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the The Articulatory Timing of the English super-heavy Syllable as Produced by Iraqi EFL Postgraduate Students:An Acoustic Study

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  The current study investigates the phenomenon of articulatory timing and its variation between native speakers and foreign language learners. More specifically, the study focuses on the articulatory timing of heavy syllables in four multi-syllabic ...
Adhraa chiad, Balqis Rashid
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Optimality Theoretic Account of Acquisition of Consonant Clusters of English Syllables by Persian EFL Learners [PDF]

Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2010
This study accounts for the acquisition of the consonant clusters of English syllable structures both in onset and coda positions by Persian EFL learners.
Ali Akbar Jabbari, Leila Arghavan
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