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Repetition of words and non-words in typically developing children: The role of prosody

First Language, 2014
In this study, segmental and prosodic aspects of word repetition and non-word repetition in typically developing children aged four to six years were investigated. Focus was on developmental differences, and on how tonal word accent and word length affect segment production accuracy.
Sundström, Simon, Samuelsson, Christina, Lyxell, Björn   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Automating Sustainability: How Climate Action Unlocks the ESG Potential of Industrial Robotics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of Industry 4.0 and global sustainability goals presents a critical paradox: while automation drives efficiency, its net impact on comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance remains contested. This study investigates the relationship between industrial robot and country‐level ESG performance across 63
Brahim Bergougui
wiley   +1 more source

Visual Gestures of the Head and Eyebrows Support Prosody Perception for Individuals with Cochlear Implants

Trends in Hearing
Visual gestures, especially head movements and eyebrow raises, are time-locked to acoustic cues during the expression of spoken prosody. The present study examined the role these visual cues play in prosody perception, particularly for individuals with ...
Justin T. Fleming, Harley J. Wheeler, Matthew B. Winn   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Processing of syllable stress is functionally different from phoneme processing and does not profit from literacy acquisition

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Speech is characterized by phonemes and prosody. Neurocognitive evidence supports the separate processing of each type of information. Therefore, one might suggest individual development of both pathways. In this study, we examine literacy acquisition in
Ulrike eSchild, Angelika B. C. Becker, Claudia K. Friedrich   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

CEO Managerial Ability and the Strategic Repetition of Climate Disclosures

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether CEO managerial ability shapes the repetition of firms' climate‐related disclosures in mandatory 10‐K filings. Climate reporting is highly judgment based and central to firms' broader climate‐risk management strategies, yet little is known about why some firms repeatedly use similar climate narratives and others ...
Javad Rajabalizadeh
wiley   +1 more source

Teko Ideophones: description of a word class

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive description of the ideophones of Teko, a Tupi language spoken in French Guiana. This word class, previously only briefly described,  is defined in this paper through a systematic comparison to nouns and
Françoise Rose
doaj   +1 more source

Phrase-initial boundary tones in Hungarian interrogatives and exclamatives [PDF]

, 2013
There is a group of wh-interrogatives and wh-exclamatives in Hungarian that are distinguished only by means of prosody. It was shown previously that the distinction consists in having falling pitch accents on the wh-element in interrogatives, and rising ...
Szalontai, Ádám, Mády, Katalin, Gyuris, Beáta   +2 more
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Word accents and phonological neighbourhood as predictive cues in spoken language comprehension

, 2016
The present contribution presents event-related potential (ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) findings related to the processing of Swedish word accents. These results are then discussed and further analysed in the context of models of
Soderstrom, Pelle (R19529), Horne, Merle, Pelle Söderström, Merle Horne, Söderström, Pelle, Mikael Roll, Roll, Mikael   +6 more
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Orchestrating Circularity in UK Accident Repair: An Intermediary Perspective on Green Parts and Reverse Logistics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the drivers and barriers shaping the adoption of salvaged automotive components (‘green parts’) in the UK accident repair sector and evaluates the strategic implications for intermediary firms in fragmented service ecosystems.
Gu Pang, Hui Sun, Sean Geens, Yeunsoo Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Semantic prosody of deictic verbs in the Holy Qurʾān: a corpus study

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Studies that examine the semantic proprsody of words in the Qurʾān focus on words with negative or positive meanings as part of their denotations (i.e., core meanings). On the other hand, a few other studies place greater importance on collocates than on
Ghuzayyil Mohammed Al-Otaibi
doaj   +1 more source