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Individual differences in second-language vowel learning

open access: yes, 2009
Adults often have difficulty in acquiring non-native vowels especially when the vowel inventories in first (L1) and second language (L2) are very different.
Lengeris, A.
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The Vowel as an Acoustic, Emotional, and Biological Stimulus in Music Pedagogy

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Psychologia-Paedagogia
This research explores the multidimensional role of vowels as acoustic, emotional, and biological stimuli within the context of music pedagogy. The study argues that vowels are not neutral phonological units but active triggers of affective and ...
Milena PETROVIĆ
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The Exploration of Deli Malay Language Vowels: An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis

open access: yesArbitrer
This study aims to discuss the acoustic profile of Deli Malay Language (Bahasa Melayu Deli) vowels from phonetics. In collecting data, the research will involve 15 DML native speakers. The speakers involved were between 20-40 years old.
Tengku Syarfina Syarfina   +2 more
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Auditory Predictions and Prediction Errors in Response to Self-Initiated Vowels

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2019
It has been suggested that speech production is accomplished by an internal forward model, reducing processing activity directed to self-produced speech in the auditory cortex. The current study uses an established N1-suppression paradigm comparing self-
Franziska Knolle   +5 more
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Chinese and English Infants’ Tone Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Over half the world’s population speaks a tone language, yet infant speech perception research has typically focused on consonants and vowels. Very young infants can discriminate a wide range of native and nonnative consonants and vowels, and then in a ...
Burnham, Denis   +3 more
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ON THE ISSUE OF INTERPRETERS’ PHONETIC COMPETENCE (BASED ON the english language)

open access: yesМногоязычие в образовательном пространстве, 2019
The article deals with one of the most important aspects of translators’ linguistic competence - their phonetics, since interpreters’ good pronunciation is of great practical value, including enunciation of phonemes, lexemes, intonation, articulation ...
Evgenij Yuryevich Shamlidi
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Vowel Imaging

open access: yes, 2015
New York ; casl ; pub ; 2759 ...
Lee A, Zharkova N, Gibbon F
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Pharyngeal related non-lexical vowels in Sephardic Modern Hebrew

open access: yes, 2010
This paper examines non-lexical vowels in Sephardic Modern Hebrew. It is argued that two kinds of vowel, which are triggered by the pharyngeal consonants, should be identified: (a) true epenthetic vowels that emerge on the surface to repair illicit ...

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Exploring the phonetic sources of the North Korean dialect accent produced by North Korean refugees in Seoul

open access: yesFrontiers in Language Sciences
This study explored the acoustic characteristics of second-dialect speech that give rise to its accent perception. Specifically, North Korean (NK) dialect speech samples were collected from NK refugees in Seoul, South Korea.
Hwanmin Jung, Jeahyuk Oh, Jeong-Im Han
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Estoñol, a computer-assisted pronunciation training tool for Spanish L1 speakers to improve the pronunciation and perception of Estonian vowels

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2019
Over the past few years the number of online language teaching materials for non-native speakers of Estonian has increased. However, they focus mainly on vocabulary and pay little attention to pronunciation.
Katrin Leppik, Cristian Tejedor-García
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