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Oscillators and Syllables: A Cautionary Note
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 There is a belief, widespread in some quarters, that the syllable is usefully thought of as a cyclic or oscillatory system. An oscillatory system allows the definition of phase (or “time” from the point of view of the system) and this in turn allows ...
Fred eCummins
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Syllabic units in children’s word recognition [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyWhen elementary-aged children read unknown polysyllabic words, they must parse the orthographic input in order to decode it. Prior studies have not shown clearly whether syllables—as opposed to letters or morphemes—are perceptual units, particularly in ...
Devin M. Kearns +3 more
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What a difference a syllable makes—Rhythmic reading of poetry
Frontiers 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
IEEE 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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Studies 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
ETRI 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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Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 How the brain groups sequential sensory events into chunks is a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. This study investigates whether top–down attention or specific tasks are required for the brain to apply lexical knowledge to group syllables ...
Nai Ding +5 more
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Some Further Observations on the Spelling of English Compounds
ELOPE, 2010 This paper explores the main factors which determine the spelling of English N+N compounds. On the basis of a corpus extracted from LDCE (2000) and LDCE (2003), I discuss the following factors, which may have an influence on the spelling of English N+N ...
Stanimir Rakić
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Word-Length Correlations and Memory in Large Texts: A Visibility Network Analysis
Entropy, 2015 We study the correlation properties of word lengths in large texts from 30 ebooks in the English language from the Gutenberg Project (www.gutenberg.org) using the natural visibility graph method (NVG).
Lev Guzmán-Vargas +4 more
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The Primacy of Abstract Syllables in Chinese Word Production
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, 2015 Convergent evidence suggests that syllables play a primary and distinctive role in the phonological phase of Mandarin Chinese word production. Specifically, syllables are selected before other phonological components and thus guide subsyllabic encoding ...
Jenn-Yeu Chen +2 more
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