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According to the Bifurcation hypothesis, the glottal stop developed into glottalization in Balto-Slavic and lengthened the vowel nucleus in Latin. This idea has already been proposed by Kortlandt, but my explanation tries to show how and why it works. In
Roman Sukač
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Language discrimination by newborns: Teasing apart phonotactic, rhythmic, and intonational cues [PDF]
Speech rhythm has long been claimed to be a useful bootstrapping cue in the very first steps of language acquisition. Previous studies have suggested that newborn infants do categorize varieties of speech rhythm, as demonstrated by their ability to ...
Ramus, Franck
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Reading versus listening: Which one is more effective for incidental vocabulary learning?
Abstract The article examines incidental vocabulary acquisition, focusing on the differential impacts of input modalities—reading versus listening—on learning of single words and multi‐word expressions. Eighty‐eight university students of L2 Italian were assigned to one of the three groups: (a) reading half of an authentic Italian novel, (b) listening ...
Mahnaz Aliyar +2 more
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This study conducts a contrastive analysis of the phonetic and phonological systems of Classical Arabic and English, drawing from empirical speech data of 25 native informants.
Abdiwali Ali Addow +2 more
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Syllable-level Neural Language Model for Agglutinative Language
Language models for agglutinative languages have always been hindered in past due to myriad of agglutinations possible to any given word through various affixes.
Kim, Jihie +3 more
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World Englishes, Applied Linguistics, and Air Traffic Control Communication
Abstract Air traffic control (ATC) communication in international aviation is conducted in a variety often referred to as Aviation English. Based on an analysis of the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), two specialized sub‐registers of Aviation English are identified in previous ...
Markus Bieswanger
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Listen Closely: Measuring Vocal Tone in Corporate Disclosures
ABSTRACT We examine the usefulness of machine learning approaches for measuring vocal tone in corporate disclosures. We document a substantial mismatch between the widely adopted actor‐based training data underlying these approaches and speech in corporate disclosures.
Jonas Ewertz +3 more
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Abstract In the present study, 43 Italian school‐age children (age range = 7–14 years, 16 females) with (N = 19) and without DD (N = 24) were presented with pairs of visual displays separated by varying interstimulus intervals and performed either a temporal integration or segregation task despite an identical visual input.
Giuseppe Di Dona +4 more
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The computation of weight in Portuguese: syllables and intervals
Probabilistic approaches have changed the maxim of categoricity often assumed in phonological analyses. With more statistical power, we are now able to perform more comprehensive and detailed analyses, which in turn help us adjust our own theoretical assumptions.
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The distribution of trimoraic syllables in German and English as evidence for the phonological word [PDF]
In the present article I discuss the distribution of trimoraic syllables in German and English. The reason I have chosen to analyze these two languages together is that the data in both languages are strikingly similar.
Hall, Tracy A.
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