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Assessing Rhotic Production by Bilingual Spanish Speakers
Due to its articulatory precision, the Spanish rhotic system is generally acquired in late childhood by monolingually-raised (L1) Spanish speakers. Heritage speakers and second language (L2) learners, unlike L1 speakers, risk an incomplete acquisition of
Laura D. Cummings Ruiz, Silvina Montrul
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This study examines the acoustic realization of phonemic taps and trills across generations of Creole-Spanish bilinguals in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia.
Falcon Restrepo Ramos
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The calling songs of some katydids (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea) from the tropical forests of Southeast Asia [PDF]
Katydids produce sound for signaling and communication by stridulation of the tegmina. Unlike crickets, most katydids are known to sing at ultrasonic frequencies.
Ming Kai Tan +8 more
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Alofonia rótica em coda silábica: produções em variedades da língua espanhola
Os róticos constituem uma classe de sons que apresenta extensa alofonia em coda silábica. A língua espanhola apresenta dois fonemas róticos tap /ɾ/ e trill /r/ como alófonos em coda silábica e podem ocorrer taps, trills, fricativos, e aproximantes ...
Maria da Piedade Soares Costola +1 more
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Vowel prothesis before /r/ revisited: acoustics and typology
Vowel prothesis is a phonological process by which a vowel is inserted at the beginning of a word. Vowel prothesis before a rhotic is attested in a number of languages of the world and has been discussed by Hall (2011), where the instantiation of this ...
David Bolter
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Acoustic and vibrational signaling in true katydid Nesoecia nigrispina: three means of sound production in one species [PDF]
The males of Mexican katydids Nesoecia nigrispina (Stal, 1873) produce calling songs and protest sounds using the typical stridulatory apparatus, situated, as in most of the other Ensifera, at the bases of the tegmina.
Olga S. Korsunovskaya +1 more
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This study examines the segmental duration of non-vibrant rhotics in a language contact scenario in the Western Caribbean, where an English-based Creole co-exists with Spanish: The Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia.
Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
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Instrumentalplaying techniques such as vibratos, glissandos, and trills often denote musical expressivity, both in classical and folk contexts. However, most existing approaches to music similarity retrieval fail to describe timbre beyond the so-called ...
Vincent Lostanlen +5 more
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Testosterone affects song modulation during simulated territorial intrusions in male black redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros) [PDF]
Although it has been suggested that testosterone plays an important role in resource allocation for competitive behavior, details of the interplay between testosterone, territorial aggression and signal plasticity are largely unknown.
Apfelbeck, Beate +5 more
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The University of Alaska, Juneau Campus Newspaper [PDF]
Campus mail gets around: UAJ rings with space age phone system -- Computer time goes unclaimed -- Editorials -- Thar she blows -- Student government update -- Channels -- Larry Stevens discusses computers -- Peterson heads to London and PhD -- Sports ...
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