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Lexical stress constrains English-learning infants' segmentation in a non-native language. [PDF]
, 2018 Infants' ability to segment words in fluent speech is affected by their language experience. In this study we investigated the conditions under which infants can segment words in a non-native language.
Mateu, Victoria E, Sundara, Megha
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Cost of referral treatment for colic in the United Kingdom—What has changed in the last 5 years?
Equine Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Background Referral treatment costs and insurance status impact treatment decisions for colic. Objectives To evaluate changes in the cost of referral treatment for colic, and insurance cover and premiums in the United Kingdom between 2018 and 2023. Study Design Cross sectional study.
F. E. Wilson, T. S. Mair, S. L. Freeman
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 Purpose: This study examined the utilization of multiple types of acoustic information in lexical tone production and perception by pediatric cochlear implant (CI) recipients who are native speakers of Mandarin Chinese.Methods: Lexical tones were ...
Mickael L. D. Deroche +5 more
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Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal [PDF]
, 1999 Spoken languages have been classified by linguists according to their rhythmic properties, and psycholinguists have relied on this classification to account for infants capacity to discriminate languages.
Mehler, Jacques +2 more
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Automatisation of intonation modelling and its linguistic anchoring [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents a fully machine-driven approach for intonation description and its linguistic interpretation. For this purpose,a new intonation model for bottom-up F0 contour analysis and synthesis is introduced, the CoPaSul model which is designed ...
Reichel, Uwe D.
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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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Studies in African Linguistics, 2008 This article provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the verbal tone system of Tura, a previously undocumented dialect of Luyia (Bantu, Kenya, J.30).
Michael R. Marlo
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Primary Word Stress in Brazilian Portuguese and the Weight Parameter
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007 In this paper, we develop an analysis of primary word stress in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). We evaluate the typological and language-specific arguments that are presented in the literature against the relevance of syllable weight in Portuguese, and show ...
Leo Wetzels
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigated the influence of learner‐ and word‐related variables on L2 vocabulary learning through the word part technique (WPT), a morphological mnemonic designed to strengthen form–meaning associations through knowledge of affixes and stems.
Gaia Oikawa +2 more
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2008 This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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