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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

A speech envelope landmark for syllable encoding in human superior temporal gyrus. [PDF]

, 2019
The most salient acoustic features in speech are the modulations in its intensity, captured by the amplitude envelope. Perceptually, the envelope is necessary for speech comprehension.
Chang, Edward F, Oganian, Yulia
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
wiley   +1 more source

French Speech Segmentation in Liaison Contexts by L1 and L2 Listeners

Laboratory Phonology, 2016
In this study, we consider how native status and signal degradation influence French listeners’ segmentation of an incoming speech stream containing liaison, a phonological process that misaligns word and syllable boundaries.
Erin Gustafson, Renaud Beeckmans
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'Magis rythmus quam metron': the structure of Seneca's anapaests, and the oral/aural nature of Latin poetry [PDF]

, 2013
The aim of this contribution is twofold. The empirical focus is the metrical structure of Seneca's anapaestic odes. On the basis of a detailed formal analysis, in which special attention is paid to the delimitation and internal structure of metrical ...
Danckaert, Lieven
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley   +1 more source

Syllable classification using static matrices and prosodic features [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper we explore the usefulness of prosodic features for syllable classification. In order to do this, we represent the syllable as a static analysis unit such that its acoustic-temporal dynamics could be merged into a set of features that the ...
CUTUGNO, FRANCESCO, Ludusan B., ORIGLIA, ANTONIO   +2 more
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The contrastive value of lexical stress in visual word recognition: Evidence from spanish [PDF]

, 2018
Resumen tomado de la publicaciónEl valor contrastivo del acento léxico en el reconocimiento visual de palabras: evidencia del español. Antecedentes: muchos pares de palabras en español, en particular muchas formas verbales, difieren solo en la sílaba ...
Cuetos Vega, Fernando, Domínguez Martínez, Alberto   +1 more
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Habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats across land‐cover types on an Afrotropical oceanic island

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Using acoustic surveys, we investigated habitat use and diel activity patterns of insectivorous bats across the main land‐use types of the endemic‐rich Príncipe Island, in Central West Africa. We sampled bat activity at 48 sites spanning old‐growth forests, secondary regrowth forests, shaded cocoa plantations, and horticultural areas.
Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Ana Catarina Araújo‐Fernandes, Ana Sofia Castro‐Fernandes, Patrícia Guedes, Yodiney dos Santos, João C. Alves, Vanessa Mata, Natalie Yoh, Ricardo Rocha   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Syllable Segmentation with Vowel Detection on Verse Quranic Recitation

JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization
In speech recognition, segmentation involves partitioning a continuous audio signal containing speech into smaller units or segments, such as words, phonemes, or syllables.
Timor Setiyaningsih, Mohd Sanusi Azmi, Azah Kamilah Draman   +2 more
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