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Effects of Palatal Expansion on Speech Production [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction: Rapid palatal expanders (RPEs) are a commonly used orthodontic adjunct for the treatment of posterior crossbites. RPEs are cemented to bilateral posterior teeth across the palate and thus may interfere with proper tongue movement and ...
Meinhardt, Jason Milton
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Sociolinguistic variation in the rhythm of Nigerian English speech
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 125-143, March 2026.Abstract There is a dearth of research on speech rhythm in Nigerian English, and scholars have differing views on its nature, ranging from being syllable‐timed to tone‐timed. Apart from the fact that the majority of few available studies were conducted more than a decade ago, the exact nature of speech rhythm in Nigerian English remains contentious ...
Folajimi Oyebola, Osemudiamhe Ilekura
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Transphonologization of voicing in Chru: Studies in production and perception
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 Chru, a Chamic language of south-central Vietnam, has been described as combining contrastive obstruent voicing with incipient registral properties (Fuller, 1977). A production study reveals that obstruent voicing has already become optional and that the
Đinh Lư Giang +3 more
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New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English - an acoustic analysis of early pop music recordings from Ghana [PDF]
, 2012 I will present first results of an acoustic analysis of Ghanaian “Highlife” songs from the 1950s to 1960s. My results show that vowel subsystems in the 1950s and 1960s show a different kind of variation than in present-day Ghanaian English.
Schmidt, Sebastian
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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 +17 more
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Speaker-sex discrimination for voiced and whispered vowels at short durations [PDF]
, 2016 Whispered vowels, produced with no vocal fold vibration, lack the periodic temporal fine structure which in voiced vowels underlies the perceptual attribute of pitch (a salient auditory cue to speaker sex).
Smith, David R.R.
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Distinctive vowel heights in Limburgish and Bavarian
Taal en Tongval, 2020 Abstract Standard works on linguistics give Amstetten Bavarian (Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996) and Weert Limburgish (Ladefoged 2007) as examples of languages with four or five distinctive vowel heights. Other Limburgish and East Central Bavarian dialects are also described with four or five heights.
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Tibetan Data Augmentation via GAN‐Based Handwritten Text Generation
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 55-65, February 2026.ABSTRACT Increased awareness of Tibetan cultural preservation, along with technological advancements, has led to significant efforts in academic research on Tibetan. However, the structural complexity of the Tibetan language and limited labeled handwriting data impede advancements in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and other applications.
Dorje Tashi +9 more
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DRESS-Down: /ε/-lowering in Apparent Tme in a Rural Scottish Community [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents a sociophonetic investigation of /ɛ/-lowering in apparent time. The data come from 24 speakers, across three generations from Buckie, northeast Scotland (12 males, 12 females).
Holmes-Elliott, Sophie, Smith, Jennifer
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