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Voiced and Voiceless Alveolar Stops of Kermani Accent in stressed and unstressed syllables

open access: yesJOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS, 2014
This study aims to compare the voiced and voiceless alveolar stops of Kermani accent in stressed and unstressed syllables. Ten subjects with Kermani accent were asked to repeat 2 words and their plurals for three times. These words are minimal pairs and are different in the first phoneme.
Anis Masoumi, Vahideh Abolhasanizadeh
openaire   +2 more sources

Effective When Distinctive: The Role of Phonetic Similarity in Nested Dependency Learning Across Preschool Years

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Parallel tracking of distant relations between speech elements, so‐called nonadjacent dependencies (NADs), is crucial in language development but computationally demanding and acquired only in late preschool years. As processing of single NADs is facilitated when dependent elements are perceptually similar, we investigated how phonetic ...
Dimitra‐Maria Kandia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
wiley   +1 more source

Did I have a dream last night? White dreaming as metacognitive feelings

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
While most research on sleep mentation focuses on dream reports, sleep experiences can also include reports lacking content, such as white dreaming—the feeling of knowing one dreamt but being unable to recall its contents. I claim that white dreaming is a metacognitive feeling, akin to tip‐of‐the‐tongue and déjà experiences.
Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring variables affecting vowel sequences across word boundaries in Peninsular Spanish

open access: yesEstudios de Fonética Experimental
This article presents an analysis of variables that can influence the behavior of vowel sequences across word boundaries in Peninsular Spanish. The analyses have been conducted using the following variables: vowel type, syllable type, word type ...
João Paulo Moraes Lima dos Santos
doaj   +1 more source

Focus accent, word length and position as cues to L1 and L2 word recognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The present study examines native and nonnative perceptual processing of semantic information conveyed by prosodic prominence. Five groups of German learners of English each listened to one of 5 experimental conditions. Three conditions differed in place
Carroll, Susanne E.   +3 more
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Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a striking ambivalence, this essay examines the relationship between text and voice in the late prose of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Astrid Elander
wiley   +1 more source

Neutralization of the long and short a in the southčakavian insular dialect

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2005
The paper deals with the lengthened short vowel a, which occurs in the position of the original short a, and a derived from the semivowel on which the accent is shifted from the last syllable. The authors consider this lengthened a as an allophone of the
Domagoj Vidović, Ivana Kurtović
doaj  

The Goldilocks Effect: How the “Just Right” Writing Styles of Global Corporate Responsibility Frameworks Shapes Their Use by Businesses

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 21st century has witnessed a surge in the number of global corporate responsibility (GCR) frameworks issued by international organizations (IOs). Our study investigates whether and to what extent these frameworks shape businesses' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communications.
Adam William Chalmers   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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