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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"PHONETIC DETAIL"”.
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Perceptual learning of context-sensitive phonetic detail
… due to inability of DSpace@Cambridge to display phonetic symbols. Please see the full abstract in the attached pdf file.] Although familiarity with a talker or accent is known to facilitate perception, it is not clear what underlies this phenomenon. Previous research has focused primarily on …
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L2 Phonetic Detail in L1 Lexical Processing
… process Spanish words with English-like phonetic detail (English-accented Spanish). Previous work shows that mismatched phonetic detail and unfamiliar accents cause delayed and disrupted lexical access during spoken word recognition, but that these effects are gradient and attenuated by …
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Spanish Vowel Sandhi: Toward a Characterization of Low-Level Processes in Phonology
In the gap between phonology and phonetics lie the low-level processes: highly variable sound changes of natural language which are crucial to decoding by the hearer, but in the speaker are more a product of performance than competence. Previous phonological frameworks have ignored such phonetic …
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Ressources linguistiques pour la gestion de l'intersubjectivité dans la parole en interaction : Analyses conversationnelles et phonétiques
… thesis is also characterized by its attention to phonetic detail (including prosodic, articulatory and phonatory aspects of talk) as a resource for action. Each of the three empirical chapters deals with a particular phenomenon involved in managing intersubjectivity in French talk-in-interaction. …
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When Synchrony Meets Diachrony: (Alveolo)Palatal Sound Patterns in Spanish and other Romance Languages
… change. As a response, this study utilizes the phonetic detail (i.e. articulatory and acoustic features) of (alveolo)palatal segments and their interaction with surrounding sounds to uncover their very origins and evolution in Spanish and other Romance languages. By relying on phonetics to …
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The use of focus markers in second language word processing
… vocabulary size, and the ability to deal with phonetic distinctions and fine phonetic detail has been argued necessary for effective nonnative comprehension of spoken language. The scientific interest in these factors has also led to more interest in the L2’s information structure, the way in …