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Co-occurrence of /t/ Variants in Young Vermont Speakers [PDF]
, 2017 Despite the social perception that Vermont’s rural dialect is dying, /t/ glottalization has been found to be a highly robust feature, especially among adolescent and younger speakers (Roberts 2006).
Bellavance, Sarah
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The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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Syllable Segmentation of Farsi Continuous Speech using Wavelet Coefficients Thresholding and Fuzzy Smoothing of Energy Contour [PDF]
Journal of Intelligent Procedures in Electrical Technology, 2013 Syllable, as a sub-word unit, nowadays plays an active role in the field of speech processing and recognition research according to its robust relation to human speech production and cognition. Automatic syllable boundaries detection is an important step
Ghazaal Sheikhi, Seyed Hamid Mahmoodian
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The influence of consonant environment upon identification of transitionless vowels [PDF]
, 1978 John J. Ohala +2 more
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Preverbal negative markers in Buli [PDF]
, 2009 This article deals with some aspects of negation in Buli, a Gur language spoken by the Bulsa people in Northern ...
Schwarz, Anne
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Overcoming Shame to Vocalise During Childbirth: A Qualitative Interview Study
Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To explore women's experiences of vocalisation during childbirth and the interplay with their feelings of shame. Design This interpretive, qualitative study is grounded in a social constructionist theory of gender, which provides a lens for examining the role of vocal toning in childbirth.
Laura A. Zinsser, Nancy I. Stone
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Vowel length as evidence for a distinction between free and bound prefixes in Czech [PDF]
, 2016 Pavel Caha, Markéta Zíková
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Epenthetic vowels in Japanese: A perceptual illusion? [PDF]
, 1998 In four cross-linguistic experiments comparing French and Japanese hearers, we found that the phonotactic properties of Japanese (very reduced set of syllable types) induce Japanese listeners to perceive ``illusory'' vowels inside consonant clusters in ...
Christophe, Pallier +4 more
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Journal of Educational Measurement, EarlyView.Abstract This article addresses bias in Spoken Language Systems (SLS) that involve both Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and reports experiments to improve the performance of SLS for automated language and literacy‐related assessments with students who are under served in the U.S. educational system.
Alison L. Bailey +5 more
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Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms are revolutionising the world, and they have the potential to revolutionise neuropsychology as well. A particularly fruitful field for this revolution is the cognitive assessment of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Mild Cognitive ...
Michele Scandola +3 more
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