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Badding Practise in Cennerfield? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1976
Many years ago I heard a recorded lecture entitled Good Speech. I have forgotten the advice it contained, but if that speaker were here today I think he would have to start all over again. I think he would suggest a new approach to vowel sounds.
Sly, Allan
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Comparing human and machine vowel classification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this study we compare human ability to identify vowels with a machine learning approach. A perception experiment for 14 Hungarian vowels in isolation and embedded in a carrier word was accomplished, and a C4.5 decision tree was trained on the same ...
Mády, Katalin, Reichel, Uwe D.
core   +3 more sources

The Influence of Audio Information Manipulation on the Perceived Atmosphere in Telepresence Systems for Remote Work

open access: yesIEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, EarlyView.
Remote work, which enables employees to work from home, has emerged as a prominent working style in recent years. However, unlike traditional office environments where the ‘atmosphere of the space’ is naturally shared, remote work relies on screen‐based communication, making it challenging to convey this atmosphere.
Ariyasu Ando   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Words without vowels : phonetic and phonological evidence from Tashlhiyt Berber [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article deals with the Tashlhiyt dialect of Berber (henceforth TB) spoken in the southern part of Morocco. In TB, words may consist entirely of consonants without vowels and sometimes of only voiceless obstruents, e.g. tft#tstt "you rolled it (fem)".
Ridouane, Rachid
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Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The paper aims at investigating the idea of a symbolic nature of sounds and its implications for in the acquisition of foreign language phonology. Firstly, it will present an overview of universal trends in phonetic symbolism, i.e.
Wrembel, Magdalena
core   +2 more sources

“Why Can't They Just Stay?” A Critical Conversation and Membership Categorization Analysis of Racial Neoliberalism in English Language Education

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I analyze the co‐constitution of race and neoliberalism within the discourse of an English language classroom. Appealing to modernist/colonial histories of race and capital, I first examine how racial neoliberalism produces a normalized, unmarked subject‐position through the conflation of moral responsibility with human ...
Justin Lance Pannell
wiley   +1 more source

/u/ fronting and /t/ aspiration in Māori and New Zealand English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article examines the relationship between the frontness of /u/ and the aspiration of /t/ in both Māori and New Zealand English (NZE). In both languages, these processes can be observed since the earliest recordings dating from the latter part of the
Harlow, Ray   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

MIGRANTS’ SPEECH: FORMANT DESCRIPTION

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2015
The purpose of the study was to identify acoustic parameters of the vocable speech of migrants with the help of a sound analyzer PRAAT based on a speaker’s reference utterance that included all vowels of the Russian language. Men from different countries
I I Valuitseva, G Yu Chirkova
doaj  

Formant Space Reconstruction From Brain Activity in Frontal and Temporal Regions Coding for Heard Vowels

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019
Classical studies have isolated a distributed network of temporal and frontal areas engaged in the neural representation of speech perception and production.
Alessandra Cecilia Rampinini   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Non-native contrasts in Tongan loans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
We present three case studies of marginal contrasts in Tongan loans from English, working with data from three speakers. Although Tongan lacks contrasts in stress or in CC vs.
Alderete   +48 more
core   +1 more source

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