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De vogal para semivogal: hiperalçamento vocálico
This research aims to establish semivowels as vowel variants in Brazilian Portuguese, based on the process of hyper-raising. The development of this study starts with the observation of the liminal state in which semivocalic segments are ...
Sérgio Linard+2 more
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Finding Natural Classes of Consonants and Vowels in Qur"an Rhyme [PDF]
The present study is aimed to find the natural classes in final rhyme of some verses in the Holy Qur"an. Many verses in the Qur"an have the final rhymes ending in the same consonants and vowels; some others don"t have similar consonants or vowels in the ...
Aliyeh Kord Zafaranlu Kambuziya+1 more
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The interaction of syllabification and voicing perception in american english [PDF]
The current paper explores these two sorts of phonetic explanations of the relationship between syllabic position and the voicing contrast in American English.
Jong, Kenneth de+2 more
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Pulmonalis or Pulmonaris? It's Elementarius, My Dear Watson
ABSTRACT The adjectival suffix ‐alis and its allomorph ‐aris are very common in the anatomical nomenclature; however, rules governing differential usage, such as ‐aris substituting for ‐alis following an ‐l‐, leave many exceptions. Here, we report an empirical study of 985 adjectives with ‐alis and ‐aris suffixes used in Terminologia Anatomica (2nd ed.)
Paul E. Neumann+3 more
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Vowel Phoneme Segmentation for Speaker Identification Using an ANN-Based Framework
Vowel phonemes are a part of any acoustic speech signal. Vowel sounds occur in speech more frequently and with higher energy. Therefore, vowel phoneme can be used to extract different amounts of speaker discriminative information in situations where ...
Sarma Mousmita, Sarma Kandarpa Kumar
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Vowel-vowel transitions, analysis, and modeling [PDF]
Male and female vowel-vowel formant transitions are analyzed using cepstral techniques. The first three formants are detected and represented as trajectories in the F1−F2, F1−F3, and F2−F3 planes. Distinctive formant trajectories are clearly revealed, exhibiting specific trajectory angles at the onset during the initial vowel and at the offset during ...
Mohammed Mrayati, René Carré
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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
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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ABSTRACT Introduction Endoscopic surgery of T1a glottic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is believed to have advantages compared to radiotherapy (RT), including short duration, cost‐effectiveness, repeatability, and RT reserved for second tumors/failures. The equality of tumor control probability after treatments is unresolved.
Nina M. Lyhne+7 more
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Stressed vowel duration and phonemic length contrast [PDF]
As far as phonemic length contrast is concerned, we observe a high degree of durational overlap between phonemically long and short vowels in monosyllabic CVC words (which is enforced by a greater pitch excursion), whereas in polysyllables the ...
Ciszewski, Tomasz
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Abstract Infant‐directed singing (IDSi) is a natural means of dyadic communication that contributes to children's mental health by enhancing emotion expression, close relationships, exploration and learning. Therefore, it is important to learn about factors that impact the IDSi.
Raija‐Leena Punamäki+3 more
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