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Showing 1 to 20 of 125 for “"Phonemes"”.
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Japanese Learners’ Recognition of English Vowel Phonemes
… and English languages. Notably, certain English phonemes are challenging for them to perceive accurately because of the difference in the number of vowels in the two languages: while there are 5 in Japanese, there are as many as 20 in English. In this research, therefore, the issue of erroneous …
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The Frequency of Occurrence of Phonemes in the Speech of Aphasics
… aphasics. The frequency distributions of phonemes for the aphasic subjects was compared to the normal distribution curve of English consonantal phonemes. Differences in the frequency of occurrence of phonemes subsequent to neurological impairment may be linked to the nature of the …
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Degrees of Difference as Predictors of Perceptual Confusions Among Phonemes in English
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Gender of Speaker Influences Infants' Discrimination of Non-Native Phonemes in a Multimodal Context
Previous research has shown that infants can discriminate both native and non-native speech contrasts before the age of 10-12 months. After this age, infants' phoneme discrimination starts resembling adults', as they are able to discriminate native contrasts, but lose their sensitivity to …
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Semitic Phonemes with Special Reference to the Ugaritic and in the Light of the Egyptian Evidence
Our task is to study the phonemes of the Semitic language, including, so far as is reasonably certain, the Egyptian language, and paying particular attention to new evidence made available by the discovery of Ugaritic. This task will require dealing with descriptive phonemics, which is the analysis …
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Automatic Activation of Phonological Templates for Native but Not Nonnative Phonemes: An Investigation of the Temporal Dynamics of Mu Activation
… listening, and perception of native/nonnative phonemes. Active and passive speech perception tasks were used as indexes of memory load employed, while native and. nonnative perception were used as indexes of automatic top-down coding for sensory analysis.</p> <p><strong>Results: …
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Variability in cross-dialectal production and perception of contrasting phonemes: the case of the alveolar-retroflex contrast in Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin
The alveolar-retroflex contrast is a critical feature in Mandarin and is often used to differentiate Beijing Mandarin from other dialects of Mandarin like Taiwan Mandarin. While a number of linguistic and sociolinguistic factors have been found to affect the alveolar-retroflex contrast, leading to …
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An investigation of the information and communication technology (ICT) integration strategies used by junior primary teachers in teaching phonemes in the Oshana region
… ICT strategies used by teachers in teaching Phonemes in English and has adopted a qualitative research method or approach. The study comprised of 15 English teachers for junior primary schools in the Oshana Region. Few schools from Oshana region were purposefully selected and took part in the …
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Teaching Children to Decode Words: Connected Versus Segmented Phonation
… taught students to convert graphemes to phonemes by breaking the speech stream (“sss – aaa – nnn”) before blending. Connected phonation taught students to pronounce phonemes without breaking the speech stream (“sssaaannn”) before blending. Kindergartners were matched and randomly assigned …
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Harðhljóð og linhljóð: Um aðröddunartíma í íslensku, sænsku og búlgörsku
… VOT of the fortis and lenis pairs of stop phonemes in Icelandic (which is normally considered to have unvoiced unaspirated vs unvoiced aspirated stop phonemes), Bulgarian (as all Slavic and Romance languages has voiced vs unvoiced stops) and Swedish (where the two phonemes in each pair have …
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Non-linguistic Influences on Infants' Nonnative Phoneme Perception: Exaggerated prosody and Visual Speech Information Aid Discrimination
… facial input on infants' ability to discriminate phonemes that do not contrast in their native language. Specifically, 11-month-old infants were tested for discrimination of both a native phoneme contrast and a nonnative phoneme contrast across four conditions, including an auditory manipulation …
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Dubbing as an Audiovisual Translation Mode: English and Lithuanian Phonemic Inventories in the Context of Visual Phonetics /
… visually identical English and Lithuanian phonemes on the basis of the identification of the similarities and differences between the English and Lithuanian phone articulation from the point of view of visibility. The dissertation introduces an organized system of audiovisual translation …
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Dubliavimas kaip audiovizualinio vertimo moda: anglų ir lietuvių kalbų garsynai vizualinės fonetikos kontekste /
… visually identical English and Lithuanian phonemes on the basis of the identification of the similarities and differences between the English and Lithuanian phone articulation from the point of view of visibility. The dissertation introduces an organized system of audiovisual translation …
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Explorations of Sound Symbolism and Iconicity
… to associate certain language sounds (i.e., phonemes) with certain perceptual and/or semantic features (see Lockwood & Dingemanse, 2015; Sidhu & Pexman, 2018a). An example of this is the association between the phoneme /i/ (as in heed) and smallness. This is of special interest to language …
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Role of close vowel in juxtaposed lexemes in Sesotho and IsiZulu : a para-morphophonological aspectual comparison
… on the origin of SeSotho and isiZulu vowels phonemes. It further looks at the historical background of the close vowels and the alternating roles of vowels fu] and [i] in different languages. Chapter four deals with the nature of Sesotho close vowels and isiZulu close vowels. A comparisons in …
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Effects of long-term phonological knowledge on learning new words
… contrasting early-developing and late-developing phonemes) on learning new words. Thirty students from West Virginia University completed a nonword repetition task and a word learning paradigm both containing nonwords comprising of only early- or only later-developing phonemes. Results revealed a …
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Decoding visemes: improving machine lip-reading
… or gesture which corresponds to a subgroup of phonemes where the phonemes are indistinguishable in the visual speech signal. Whilst a viseme is yet to be formally de�ned, we use the common working de�nition `a viseme is a group of phonemes with identical appearance on the lips'. A phoneme is …
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Concatenative speech synthesis: a Framework for Reducing Perceived Distortion when using the TD-PSOLA Algorithm
… between the spectral content of individual phonemes, the extent of pitch manipulation, and aspects of the original recordings. Based on these results, a framework was designed for use in conjunction with TD-PSOLA to minimise the possible causes of distortion. The framework consisted of a …
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Variability in interlanguage phonology of Malaysian learners of English
… in the subjects' performance of all the phonemes under investigation and this variation seems to be systematic in nature. The speech performance of the Malaysian subjects in this study is responsive to the nature of the verbal tasks they are engaged in and in their production of most of …
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