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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 9, September 2026.Abstract The ability to detect statistical regularities in the input is widely assumed to support language acquisition, but its unique contribution to individual differences in language outcomes remains uncertain, especially in neurodevelopmental conditions.
Krisztina Sára Lukics +3 more
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Learning phonemic vowel length from naturalistic recordings of Japanese infant-directed speech. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In Japanese, vowel duration can distinguish the meaning of words. In order for infants to learn this phonemic contrast using simple distributional analyses, there should be reliable differences in the duration of short and long vowels, and the frequency ...
Ricardo A H Bion +3 more
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 1027-1061, September 2026.Abstract Parallel tracking of distant relations between speech elements, so‐called nonadjacent dependencies (NADs), is crucial in language development but computationally demanding and acquired only in late preschool years. As processing of single NADs is facilitated when dependent elements are perceptually similar, we investigated how phonetic ...
Dimitra‐Maria Kandia +3 more
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Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1563, Issue 1, September 2026.We analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds., despite substantial differences in linguistic structure and prosody. A comparative rhythm analysis shows that human speech falls within the range reported
Lara S. Burchardt +2 more
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 680-703, September 2026.Abstract We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English‐as‐a‐first‐language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia.
Yizhou Wang +4 more
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Acoustics of long vowels in Arabic-speaking children with hearing impairments
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 The present study investigates formant frequencies and vowel space area in Jordanian hearing-impaired individuals who received cochlear implants. To achieve this task, they were compared with their hearing aids and normal-hearing peers.
Bassil Mashaqba +4 more
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The Role of Phonological and Rhythmic Skills in Learning to Write Words in Spanish
Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 49, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT Background Both phonological and stress awareness have been related to the development of literacy. Moreover, according to Goswami's temporal sampling theory, another prosodic factor, rhythmic synchronization skill, also favours reading acquisition.
Nieves Valencia‐Naranjo +3 more
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Towards a Mental Representation of Vowel Height in SSBE Speakers
International Journal of English Studies, 2011 Debate in phonetics and phonology has focused on the cognitive foundation of distinctive feature theory, as well as on the definition of features themselves. Although the motor-acoustic feature of vowel height has been the object of close scrutiny, research on the vertical representation of vowels in the phonology of English remains inconclusive.
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Arabic-Spanish Language Contact in Puerto Rico: A Case of Glottal Stop Epenthesis
Languages, 2019 The current study examines the realization of adjacent vowels across word boundaries in Arabic-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in Puerto Rico, focusing specifically on the rate of glottal stop epenthesis in this context (e.g., hombre africano
Sherez Mohamed +2 more
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