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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Hyperarticulation"”.
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The Effect of Hyperarticulation on the Perception of Palatalization in Russian by L1 American English Speakers
… whether students of a certain level benefit from hyperarticulation more. The results of two experiments shothat none of the groups of students benefited from hyperarticulation while perceiving a palatalized/unpalatalized consonant contrast. Moreover, the research provided the proof that …
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Do Infants Discriminate Hyper-from Non-Hyperarticulated Speech?
… are able to perceive the difference between hyperarticulation and normal speech. In this study, 7-to 12-month-olds' (n=17) speech discrimination when hearing hyperarticulated and non-hyperarticulated words in mothers' natural speech production was examined. The degree of speech clarity was …
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Articulation of whispered alveolar consonants
… Whispered consonants also showed evidence of hyperarticulation: they had lower surface area contact percentages and variability versus normal speech.
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The effects of lexical stress, intonational pitch accent, and speech rate on vowel quality in Catalan and Spanish
Lexical-stress languages tend to display stress-induced vowel quality variation. In some languages the effect is very salient, resulting in a smaller vowel inventory in unstressed syllables and stress-conditioned rule-governed vowel alternations within paradigms (phonological vowel reduction). …
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Prosody in Human Communication and Machine Understanding
Speech technology is a ubiquitous part of the modern world, from the voice-enabled assistants in smartphones to bespoke tools used by language researchers. Technological advances and the curation of large speech datasets have enabled these systems to identify words with remarkable quality. However, …