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Prominence and centralization: a two-way contrast between lexical and epenthetic non-labial high vowels in Algherese Catalan

Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2015
Algherese Catalan has the peculiarity of presenting an inserted [i] vowel across words in order to avoid certain consonant codas. In this study, we compare five acoustic features of this epenthetic segment (i.e., duration, intensity, and the three first
Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret
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Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht, Núria Esteve‐Gibert   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
wiley   +1 more source

Effective When Distinctive: The Role of Phonetic Similarity in Nested Dependency Learning Across Preschool Years

Language Learning, EarlyView.
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, Angela D. Friederici, Jutta L. Mueller, Claudia Männel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

West Slavic accentuation [PDF]

, 2010
At the time of the earliest reconstructible dialectal divergences, which belong to the Late Middle Slavic period of my chronology (stages 7.0 - 8.0 of Kortlandt 1989a, 2003, 2008), the West Slavic languages represented the most conservative part of the ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Seeing the Speaker's Face Enhances Second Language Shadowing: Neural and Behavioral Evidence

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated how facial cues influence second language (L2) shadowing among 42 Japanese learners of English. Participants completed four conditions that varied by task type (listening vs. shadowing) and visual input (face vs. mosaic).
Hyeonjeong Jeong, Shuhei Kadota, Mayumi Kajiura, Hiroshi Nakanishi, Koji Kazai, Mariko Kawasaki, Yoko Nakano, Naoya Hase   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of word-final vowel duration for non-native portuguese speaker identification by means of Support Vector Machines

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2014
This article studies the acoustic characteristics of some oral vowels in tonic syllables of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and which acoustic features are important for classifying native versus non-native speakers of BP.
Suzanne Franks, Rommel Barbosa
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Discrimination of Degrees of Foreign Accent across Different Speakers

Languages
Second-language learners often encounter communication challenges due to a foreign accent (FA) in their speech, influenced by their native language (L1).
Rubén Pérez-Ramón
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On the relative chronology of Slavic accentual developments [PDF]

, 2010
Last year Georg Holzer proposed a relative chronology of accentual developments in Slavic (2005). Here I shall compare his chronology with the one I put forward earlier (1975, 1989a, 2003) and discuss the differences. For the sake of convenience, I first
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
wiley   +1 more source