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What a difference a syllable makes—Rhythmic reading of poetry

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
In reading conventional poems aloud, the rhythmic experience is coupled with the projection of meter, enabling the prediction of subsequent input. However, it is unclear how top-down and bottom-up processes interact. If the rhythmicity in reading loud is
Judith Beck, Lars Konieczny
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Bioacoustics Data Analysis – A Taxonomy, Survey and Open Challenges

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Biodiversity monitoring has become a critical task for governments and ecological research agencies for reducing significant loss of animal species. Existing monitoring methods are time-intensive and techniques such as tagging are also invasive and may ...
Rama Rao K. V. S. N.   +3 more
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Jumjum phonology

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 2004
This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Jumjum, a littleknown Western Nilotic language. The treatment includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel harmony, consonants and consonant assimilation, and tones and tonal ...
Torben Andersen
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Variational autoencoder for prosody-based speaker recognition

open access: yesETRI Journal, 2023
This paper describes a novel end-to-end deep generative model-based speaker recognition system using prosodic features. The usefulness of variational autoencoders (VAE) in learning the speaker-specific prosody representations for the speaker recognition ...
Starlet Ben Alex, Leena Mary
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The importance of word order in explaining tone patterns in Avokaya verbs

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 2004
This paper presents a set of ordered rules accounting for tone changes that occur in Avokaya verbs. The most prevalent shape for Avokaya verbs is monosyllabic.
Eileen Kilpatrick, Leoma Gilley
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Get that into your head: Tigre vowel harmonies as templatic

open access: yesGlossa, 2017
This article argues that vocalic expressions are templatic: they have a head position and a dependent position. It follows that the same element can appear in both positions.
Noam Faust
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Orthographic input and phonological representations in learners of Chinese as a foreign language. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper provides evidence that the second language orthographic input affects the mental representations of L2 phonology in instructed beginner L2 learners. Previous research has shown that orthographic representations affect monolinguals' performance
Bassetti, Benedetta
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Segregation of vowels and consonants in human auditory cortex: Evidence for distributed hierarchical organization

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2010
The speech signal consists of a continuous stream of consonants and vowels, which must be de– and encoded in human auditory cortex to ensure the robust recognition and categorization of speech sounds.
Jonas eObleser   +4 more
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The self-organization of genomes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Menzerath-Altmann law is a general law of human language stating, for instance, that the longer a word, the shorter its syllables. With the metaphor that genomes are words and chromosomes are syllables, we examine if genomes also obey the law.
Ferrer Cancho, Ramon   +1 more
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