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Neural and behavioral investigations into timbre perception

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2013
Timbre is the attribute that distinguishes sounds of equal pitch, loudness and duration. It contributes to our perception and discrimination of different vowels and consonants in speech, instruments in music and environmental sounds.
Stephen Michael Town   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the research‐practice divide: Insights from a Korean online Community of Practice

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This study introduces the case of a Korean online Community of Practice (CoP) as a venue for researcher‐practitioner dialogue, following persistent calls from instructed second language acquisition researchers to foster links between research and practice.
Nari Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of Mild Cognitive Impairment From Speech in Swedish Using Deep Sequential Neural Networks

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2018
While people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) portray noticeably incipient memory difficulty in remembering events and situations along with problems in decision making, planning, and finding their way in familiar environments, detailed ...
Charalambos Themistocleous   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

KILLJOY POETICS IN ANTJE RÁVIK STRUBEL'S BLAUE FRAU (2021)

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on Sara Ahmed's concept of killjoy activism, I explore how Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau employs a killjoy poetics that refuses to brush over violence, asymmetry, injury and force. Instead, the novel intervenes in affective textures of happiness and reconciliation, and forms activist and ecological networks of resistance. I build on
Alrik Daldrup
wiley   +1 more source

What Vowels Can Tell Us about the Evolution of Music

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Whether music and language evolved independently of each other or whether both evolved from a common precursor remains a hotly debated topic. We here emphasize the role of vowels in the language-music relationship, arguing for a shared heritage of music ...
Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Acoustic Overlap in Second Language Vowel Productions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the alignment of vowel categories between second language (L2) learners and first language (L1) speakers of the target language, as well as potential overlaps between adjacent vowels in terms of formant frequencies and duration.
Georgios P. Georgiou, Elena Savva
wiley   +1 more source

L3 Regressive Transfer: A Study of Null Objects in the Basque and Spanish Grammars of Advanced L3 English Speakers

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Regressive transfer has been a subject that has not been extensively researched in the field of third language acquisition. This study aims to examine the extent to which a highly advanced knowledge of a third language (L3) affects the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) of early bilinguals in light of the Differential Stability ...
Maddi Alkain Arizmendi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

HISTORICAL VIEW OF CARDINAL VOWELS IN TURKISH

open access: yesZeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2013
Turkish is a rich language in terms of presence of vowels. There are eight vowels that originated from the relationship between palatalité, aperture and labialité in terms of their characteristics in general Turkish. These are /a/, /e/, /ı/, /i/, /o, /ö/,
Fatih ÖZEK
doaj  

Post-Therapy Trajectories Following Brief Systemic Couple Therapy for Parents. [PDF]

open access: yesFam Process
ABSTRACT This study examined post‐therapy trajectories among parent couples who received either the Integrative Brief Systemic Intervention (IBSI)—targeting both romantic and coparenting relationships—or Brief Systemic Therapy as usual (BST‐as‐usual).
Darwiche J   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Role of University Peer Mentoring in Heritage Language Identity Construction in Diasporic Contexts

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research shows that many heritage language (HL) students pursue HL study at the university level to reconnect with their cultural roots. While most university‐focused research has examined HL learners, less attention has been given to how teaching and peer mentoring experiences in higher education shape HL identities. This study examines how a
Mi Yung Park
wiley   +1 more source

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