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Unfolding Prosody Guides the Development of Word Segmentation

open access: yesLanguages
Prosody is known to scaffold the learning of language, and thus understanding prosodic development is vital for language acquisition. The present study explored the unfolding prosody model of prosodic development (proposed in Frota’s et al. study in 2016)
Marina Vigário   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Semantics–Prosody Stroop Effect on English Emotion Word Processing in Chinese College Students With Trait Depression

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
This study explored the performance of Chinese college students with different severity of trait depression to process English emotional speech under a complete semantics–prosody Stroop effect paradigm in quiet and noisy conditions. A total of 24 college
Fei Chen   +3 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Mark my words: tone of voice changes affective word representations in memory. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2010
The present study explored the effect of speaker prosody on the representation of words in memory. To this end, participants were presented with a series of words and asked to remember the words for a subsequent recognition test. During study, words were
Annett Schirmer
doaj   +1 more source

Survey of Previous Research on Livonian Prosody; 23-28 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2007
Livonian prosody is unique among the Uralic languages in that it contrasts short and long monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs, prevocalic single and geminate consonants and word-final short and long consonants, word-final short and long consonants,
Tiit-Rein Viitso
doaj   +1 more source

Acoustic Word Embeddings for End-to-End Speech Synthesis

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
The most recent end-to-end speech synthesis systems use phonemes as acoustic input tokens and ignore the information about which word the phonemes come from.
Feiyu Shen, Chenpeng Du, Kai Yu
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of prosody on spoken Thai word perception in pre-attentive brain processing: a pilot study [PDF]

open access: yesSongklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2016
This study aimed to investigate the effect of the unfamiliar stressed prosody on spoken Thai word perception in the pre-attentive processing of the brain evaluated by the N2a and brain wave oscillatory activity.
Kittipun Arunphalungsanti   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Explicit Training to Improve Affective Prosody Recognition in Adults with Acute Right Hemisphere Stroke

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
Difficulty recognizing affective prosody (receptive aprosodia) can occur following right hemisphere damage (RHD). Not all individuals spontaneously recover their ability to recognize affective prosody, warranting behavioral intervention.
Alexandra Zezinka Durfee   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning word order at birth: A NIRS study

open access: yesDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017
In language, the relative order of words in sentences carries important grammatical functions. However, the developmental origins and the neural correlates of the ability to track word order are to date poorly understood.
Silvia Benavides-Varela, Judit Gervain
doaj   +1 more source

Hearing feelings: affective categorization of music and speech in alexithymia, an ERP study. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: Alexithymia, a condition characterized by deficits in interpreting and regulating feelings, is a risk factor for a variety of psychiatric conditions.
Katharina Sophia Goerlich   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Motion iconicity in prosody

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
Evidence suggests that human non-verbal speech may be rich in iconicity. Here, we report results from two experiments aimed at testing whether perception of increasing and declining f0 can be iconically mapped onto motion events. We presented a sample of
Axel G. Ekström   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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