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Perceptual relevance of long-domain phonetic dependencies

, 2004
International audienceThis study is concerned with the perceptual relevance of regressive vowel harmony in French. Two experiments were conducted. The first experiment showed that acoustic variations in a non-final vowel depending on the final vowel can ...
Cole, Jennifer, Fagyal, Zsuzsanna, Nguyen, Noël   +2 more
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Novel Approach to Inter‐Onset‐Interval Ratio Uncovers Music‐Like Rhythmic Patterns in Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) Warble Song

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1557, Issue 1, March 2026.
Recent work on non‐human animal vocalizations has offered new insights into rhythmicity. In an attempt to improve upon methods commonly used in animal rhythm research, we investigated the rhythmic structure of budgerigar song. Our proposed statistical approach showed rhythmicity in human music but not language, and uncovered non‐random structured ...
Jeroen van der Aa, Günther Koliander, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Marisa Hoeschele   +3 more
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Vowel harmony and positional variation in Kyrgyz

Laboratory Phonology, 2020
While it is well known that the phonetic realization of a segment may differ by position, it is unclear how positional variation interacts with vowel harmony, the imperative that vowels be identical along some phonological dimension.
Adam G McCollum
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From dilation to coarticulation: is there vowel harmony in French?

, 2003
International audienceThis paper presents the preliminary results of an acoustic study, and a review of previous work on vowel harmony in French. It shows that harmony, initially regarded as regular sound change, is considered an optional constraint on ...
Boula de Mareüil, Philippe, Fagyal, Zsuzsanna, Nguyen, Noël   +2 more
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Development and validation of novel cognitive tests in Mandarin‐speaking older Americans

Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract INTRODUCTION Mandarin Chinese has the largest number of native speakers globally, yet few Mandarin cognitive tests have undergone rigorous validation in multicultural settings for Alzheimer's disease (AD) detection. METHODS We adapted or developed Mandarin cognitive tests to assess memory, executive, and language functions (including new ...
William T. Hu, Michelle H. Chen, Mei‐Ling Li, Guibin Su, Oceanna Y. Li, Mia Anthony, Ann‐Marie Raphail, Karthik J. Kota, Ashima Nayyar, Milota Kaluzova, Chun‐Yuan Chang, Hayley Horvath, Mini Jomartin, Michelle Migut, Steven Z. Chao, Niyatee Samudra, Victor W. Henderson, F. Vankee Lin   +17 more
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Acoustic aspects of vowel harmony in French

, 2008
International audienceThis paper examines acoustic aspects of vowel harmony (VH), understood as regressive vowel-to-vowel assimilation, in two regional varieties of French in six speakers' productions of 107 disyllabic word pairs.
Angoujard, Browman, Browman, Bybee, Casagrande, Coveney, Dell, Di Cristo, Durand, Fagyal, Field, Grammont, Hoemeke, Klatt, Ladefoged, Landick, Lodge, Malmberg, Malmberg, Martin, Martin, Martinet, Mettas, Moore, Noël Nguyen, Pinheiro, Quené, Rosner, Stevens, Straka, Syrdal, Tranel, Traunmüller, Traunmüller, Walker, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Öhman   +36 more
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Use of Automation Technologies and Data Mining in Speech Recognition for Autism

Brain and Behavior, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.
Pipeline analyzes clinical and naturalistic speech using LENA, wav2vec 2.0, and foundation‐model ASR (Whisper) to enable scalable ASD detection and severity estimation. Future work integrates benchmarking, privacy‐preserving collaboration (federated learning), and explainable, edge‐ready AI for clinically credible assessment and longitudinal monitoring.
Rongjie Mao, Yuncheng Zhu
wiley   +1 more source

‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]

, 2015
This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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The “Double Bind” of Gender‐Based Violence: Secondary Victimization in Courtroom Cross‐Examinations

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 96-108, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how secondary victimization is interactionally produced during courtroom cross‐examinations of women who have experienced sexual violence. Drawing on Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorization Analysis, the study investigates how defense attorneys invoke rape myths and gendered stereotypes to ...
Selena Mariano
wiley   +1 more source

Vowel harmony in Akan a consideration of Stewarts word structure conditions

Studies in African Linguistics, 1984
Stewart [1983] presents a new framework for the analysis of Akan vowel harmony in which Word Structure Conditions (WSCs) are introduced to account for word-level phonotactic regularities.
George N. Clements
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