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Text underlay in Marguerite of Austria's chanson album Brussels 228 [PDF]
, 1987 No abstract ...
Edwards, W.
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht +1 more
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Assessing the prosody of minimally to nonverbal children with autism [PDF]
, 2016 A procedure for assessing basic prosodic perception and production abilities of minimally to nonverbal children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder is described (AP: Assessment of Prosody).
Meyer, Steve +4 more
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Language 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
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Perception of Polish accent in a re-synthesized speech signal
Archives of Acoustics, 2014 The utterance /vidzitceteras/ was spoken, in three versions, with the accent (I) on the first, (II) on the second and (IV) on the fourth syllable. Using a package of computer programs for speech processing which executes analysis and synthesis by linear ...
W. JASSEM, W. Van Dommelen
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Temporal structures for Fast and Slow Speech Rate [PDF]
, 1998 The rhythmic component in speech synthesis often remains rather rudimentary, despite recent major efforts in the modeling of prosodic models. The European COST Action 258 has identified this problem as one of the next challenges for speech synthesis ...
Zellner, Brigitte
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception
Mind &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
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Did I have a dream last night? White dreaming as metacognitive feelings
Mind &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
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Homogeneity and heterogeneity in lexical stress placement among Ugandan speakers of English as an L2
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)The study delineates divergences that set apart the Ugandan accent from RP with respect to primary lexical stress placement, as well as divergences that evince variability among Ugandans.
Monica Adokorach, Bebwa Isingoma
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