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Laboratory Phonology, 2016 Some languages, such as many varieties of English, use short-lag and long-lag VOT to distinguish word- and syllable-initial voiced vs. voiceless stop phonemes.
Renaud Beeckmans, Satsuki Nakai
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Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon [PDF]
, 2015 This article uses instrumental data from natural speech to examine the phenomenon of pause placement within the verbal word in Dalabon, a polysynthetic Australian language of Arnhem Land.
Evans, Nicholas +2 more
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Financial Statement Readability and Firm Debt Choice
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Examining more than 16,000 firm‐year observations in the United States, we provide novel evidence showing that higher financial statement readability leads to a decrease in information asymmetry and the need for external monitoring, thereby reducing the reliance on bank debt relative to public debt.
Wajih Abbassi +3 more
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Exploring variables affecting vowel sequences across word boundaries in Peninsular Spanish
Estudios de Fonética ExperimentalThis 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
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Statistical language learning in neonates revealed by event-related brain potentials
BMC Neuroscience, 2009 Background Statistical learning is a candidate for one of the basic prerequisites underlying the expeditious acquisition of spoken language. Infants from 8 months of age exhibit this form of learning to segment fluent speech into distinct words.
Näätänen Risto +4 more
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Linguistics in the Study and Teaching of Literature [PDF]
, 2008 Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate ...
Fabb, Nigel
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Improved syllable-based continuousMandarin speech recognition usingintersyllable boundary models
Electronics Letters, 1995 A novel approach to compensate for the intersyllable coarticulation effect on continuous Mandarin speech recognition by supplementing the syllable HMM models with intersyllable boundary models is proposed. Experimental results show that the syllable recognition errors of a speaker-dependent recognition task are reduced by 24%. >
null Chang, null Chen
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bilingual subject instruction (BSI) is one form of language support classes in Norwegian schools, preparing students from language minorities for mainstream instruction by combining subject and language tutoring through the students’ home language.
Agnieszka Moraczewska
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The Acquisition of Mayan Morphosyntax
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002 This paper assesses predictions for the acquisition of Mayan verbal inflections derived from structural, comparative and metrical theories. The structuralist theory of Wexler (1998) fails to predict K'iche' (Kiche) children's use of the language's ...
Pye, Clifton
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A destressing "deafness" in French? [PDF]
, 1997 French is a language in which accent is mandatory on the last syllable of every content word. In contrast, Spanish uses accent to distinguish different lexical items (e.g., b'ebe vs beb'e).
Dupoux, E. +3 more
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