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Syllable-based Regional Swiss French Accent Identi?cation using Prosodic Features [PDF]
, 2014 among regional Swiss French accents from four regions of Switzerland. To achieve this goal a syllable based classification framework is implemented using prosodic features extracted from the speech signal. Since among these regional accents the variations in speech mainly originate from the speaking style i.e.
Lazaridis Alezandros +1 more
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Including Pitch Accent Optionality in Unit Selection Text-to-Speech Synthesis [PDF]
, 2008 A significant variability in pitch accent placement is found when comparing the patterns of prosodic prominence realized by different English speakers reading the same sentences. In this paper we describe a simple approach to incorporate this variability
Badino, Leonardo +2 more
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi +3 more
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Word edge tones in Spanish prenuclear accents
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2006 In this paper we analyse the alignment patterns of H prenuclear accents in Spanish so as to examine whether prenuclear rises in declarative sentences can be interpreted as a sequence of an L* pitch accent and an H word edge tone.
Eva Estebas Vilaplana
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Frontiers in PsychologyPerceptual difficulty with an unfamiliar accent can dissipate within short time scales (e.g., within minutes), reflecting rapid adaptation effects. At the same time, long-term familiarity with an accent is also known to yield stable perceptual benefits ...
Xin Xie, Chigusa Kurumada
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Accent retraction and tonogenesis [PDF]
, 2010 Like its predecessor in Zagreb, the conference on Balto-Slavic accentology in Copenhagen was a great success. The enthusiasm of the organizers Adam Hyllested and Thomas Olander proved highly effective in stimulating discussion among the participants ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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The what, which, when, why and who of Off responses in the auditory system
The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract figure legend In this article, we will first review ‘What’ different mechanisms are involved in the generation of Off responses at the sub‐cortical and cortical level of the auditory system. Then, we evaluate ‘Which’ stimulus properties elicit Off responses at the different levels of the auditory system.
Jean‐Marc Edeline, Robert C. Liu
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Accent and ablaut in the Vedic verb [PDF]
, 2010 Most scholars nowadays reconstruct a static root present with an alternation between lengthened grade in the active singular and full grade in the active plural and in the middle.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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