Phonotactic structure modulates the role of consonants and vowels in lexical processing: evidence from Spanish [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionNumerous studies have shown that consonants play a more crucial role than vowels in lexical recognition and learning, a phenomenon known as the C-Bias or C-advantage.
María Rodríguez-Moreno +5 more
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Cross-language acoustic and perceptual similarity of vowels: The role of listeners'�� native accents [PDF]
, 2013 Vowel inventories vary across languages in terms of the phonological vowel categories within them and the phonetic properties of individual vowels. The same also holds across different accents of a language.
Williams, Daniel P
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Badania fonetyczne a glottodydaktyka – samogłoski języka niderlandzkiego w wymowie rodzimych użytkowników polszczyzny [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2023 Phonetic research is both valid and important in the context of teaching foreign pronunciation. Its results provide methodological guidelines as well as they facilitate understanding of certain linguistic phenomena.
Alicja Derych
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Einige Überlegungen zur Realisierung der Quantität auf höheren Ebenen des phonetischen Ausdrucks – Projektvoraussetzungen [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2020 This text is dedicated to segment extensions. It makes up an integral part of the dissertation project under the title “Variation of the segmental characteristic quantity at higher levels of phonetic manifestation on the basics of selected text types in ...
Aleksandra Molenda
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Vowel Spectra, Vowel Spaces, and Vowel Identification [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1970 Twelve Dutch vowels, each pronounced by 50 male speakers, were analyzed in 18 filter bands comparable in bandwidth with the ear's critical band. By considering the sound levels (in decibels) in these filter bands as dimensions, with a principal-component analysis the 18 dimensions per sound were reduced to four factors which together explain 75% of the
Klein, W., Plomp, R., Pols, L.C.W.
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The Perception and Production of SSBE vowels by Syrian Arabic learners:The Foreign Language Model [PDF]
, 2008 This thesis presents an examination of the perception and production of Standard Southern British English (SSBE) vowels by Syrian Arabic (SA) Foreign language (FL) learners.
Alhussein Almbark, Rana
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Using spectral and cross-spectral analysis to identify patterns and synchrony in couples' sexual desire. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Sexual desire discrepancy is one of the most frequently reported sexual concerns for individuals and couples and has been shown to be negatively associated with sexual and relationship satisfaction. Sexual desire has increasingly been examined as a state-
Matthew J Vowels +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Neural discrimination of auditory contrasts is usually studied via the mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the event-related potentials (ERPs). In the processing of speech contrasts, the magnitude of MMN is determined by both the acoustic as well as ...
Natalia Nudga +7 more
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Vowel systems of the Chibchan languages
Forma y Función, 2021 This paper presents the phonological vowel systems of 16 Chibchan languages, according to existing descriptions. Its purpose is to provide a basic and systematic overview of the vowel systems found in this family.
Haakon S. Krohn
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Effective Vowel Stimuli for Measuring Occlusion Effect in the Pediatric Population
Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine, 2023 Past studies have reported that there are higher sound-pressure levels for each vowel in a child’s ear canal than those in adults due to reduced volume and a shorter ear canal.
Hemanth Narayan Shetty +2 more
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