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Sex-biased sound symbolism in French first names

open access: yesEvolutionary Human Sciences, 2019
Low- and high-frequency vowels in the stressed syllable of French first names may respectively project impressions of largeness/masculinity and smallness/femininity.
Alexandre Suire   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Age and Accent - Changes in a Southern Welsh English Accent [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper describes the accent of Neath (South Wales) from a socio-dialectological perspective and deals with changes in the accent which are due to the non-linguistic factor age. In a direct interview with indirect questioning, 27 informants from Neath
Podhovnik, Edith
core   +1 more source

Fundamental frequency and perceived prominence of accented syllables [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1989
In natural speech, accented words may differ as to the degree of perceived prominence. At the acoustic level, two aspects of fundamental frequency (F0) variation may be responsible for the perceived prominence differences: the magnitude of F0 changes and the relative frequencies of F0 maxima.
J. Terken, R. Collier
openaire   +1 more source

Intensiivsus, rõhk ja välde eesti keeles

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2019
Uurimuses vaadeldakse, kas ja millised intensiivsuse parameetrid eristavad eesti keeles (a) lauserõhutut, lauserõhulist ja emfaatilise lauserõhuga sõna, (b) sõnarõhulist ja -rõhutut silpi ning (c) kolme väldet, ning kas võimalikud korrelatsioonid on ...
Heete Sahkai, Meelis Mihkla
doaj   +1 more source

Habitat-related differences in song structure and complexity in a songbird with a large repertoire

open access: yesBMC Ecology, 2019
Background Urbanisation has been shown to influence many aspects of animal vocal communication. Much attention has been paid to anthropogenic noise, which is often described as one of the most challenging disturbances for urban dwellers.
Krzysztof Deoniziak, Tomasz S. Osiejuk
doaj   +1 more source

A small vocal repertoire during the breeding season expresses complex behavioral motivations and individual signature in the common coot

open access: yesBMC Zoology, 2021
Background Although acoustic communication plays an essential role in the social interactions of Rallidae, our knowledge of how Rallidae encode diverse types of information using simple vocalizations is limited. We recorded and examined the vocalizations
Changjian Fu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Highly Sensitive Oxidation‐Resistant Degradable Janus Piezoresistive Electronic Skin for Sustainable Wearable Electronics

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a highly sensitive, oxidation‐resistant, biocompatible, and degradable Janus piezoresistive electronic skin for sustainable wearable electronics. The electronic skin exhibits sensitive and stable response across a broad pressure range, exceptional oxidation resistance, and Janus wettability.
Joon Kim   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in the McGurk Effect Across Phonetic Contexts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
To investigate the process underlying audiovisual speech perception, the McGurk illusion was examined across a range of phonetic contexts. Two major changes were found.
Hampson, Michelle   +3 more
core  

Influence of syllable-coda voicing on the acoustic properties of syllable-onset /l/ in English

open access: yes, 2004
International audienceProperties of syllable onset /l/ that depend on the voicing of the syllable coda were measured for four speakers, representing different nonrhotic British English accents that differ in their phonetic realization of onset /l/ and in
Alfonso   +61 more
core   +2 more sources

An acoustic investigation of the developmental trajectory of lexical stress contrastivity in Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We examined whether typically developing Italian children exhibit adult-like stress contrastivity for word productions elicited via a picture naming task (n=25 children aged 3\u20135 years and 27 adults).
Arciuli, Joanne, Colombo, Lucia
core   +1 more source

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