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The role of syllables in sign language production

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
The aim of the present study was to investigate the functional role of syllables in sign language and how the different phonological combinations influence sign production. Moreover, the influence of age of acquisition was evaluated. Deaf signers (native
Cristina eBaus   +4 more
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Perceptual adjustment to time-compressed Speech: a cross-linguistic study [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
revious research has shown that, when hearers listen to artificially speeded speech, their performance improves over the course of 10-15 sentences, as if their perceptual system was "adapting" to these fast rates of speech.
Christophe, Anne   +4 more
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Music Training Positively Influences the Preattentive Perception of Voice Onset Time in Children with Dyslexia: A Longitudinal Study

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2019
Previous results showed a positive influence of music training on linguistic abilities at both attentive and preattentive levels. Here, we investigate whether six months of active music training is more efficient than painting training to improve the ...
Aline Frey   +5 more
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Semantic involvement of initial and final lexical embeddings during sense-making: The advantage of starting late

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2012
During spoken language interpretation, listeners rapidly relate the meaning of each individual word to what has been said before. However, spoken words often contain spurious other words, like day in daisy, or dean in sardine.
Petra M. Van Alphen, Jos J.A. Van Berkum
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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Lee, Wai-Sum, Stevens, Mary
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Both surat Quraish and Fil- sectional study

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2020
This research aims to uncover the moral relationship between voiceless and voices in its two types through the syllabic structure of speech, and the voice and syllable have uses that differ in different situations and have a great impact to determine ...
Ramadan Salih Rahman
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Amodal aspects of linguistic design. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
All spoken languages encode syllables and constrain their internal structure. But whether these restrictions concern the design of the language system, broadly, or speech, specifically, remains unknown.
Iris Berent   +2 more
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Information theoretic syllable structure and its relation to the c-center effect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Established phonological theories postulate uniform syllable constituent structures. From a traditional hierarchical point of view, syllables are right branching implying a close connection between the nucleus and the coda.
Reichel, Uwe D.
core   +1 more source

Do syllables play a role in German speech perception? Behavioural and electrophysiological data from primed lexical decision

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
We investigated the role of the syllable during speech processing in German, in an auditory-auditory fragment priming study with lexical decision and simultaneous EEG registration.
Heidrun eBien   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: duration and formant structure.
Abercrombie   +66 more
core   +3 more sources

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