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Showing 1 to 20 of 210 for “"accent"”.
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The Garstang Accent
… been little research done into the Lancashire accent, particularly at a descriptive level but also from a soeiophonetic standpoint. The aim of this study is to identi& and describe the accent of Garstang as it exists now. This was done by conducting a study of twenty people, aged between twenty …
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Speech recognition of foreign accent
… on single syllable words to detect foreign accents in spoken American English. The study involves thirty-one native American English speakers, and six native Brazilian speakers. Five different distance measures are used for classification. Results show that correct classification is obtained …
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L2 acquisition of nuclear accent
… phrase. Specifically, L2 acquisition of nuclear accent (NA) placement is investigated in order to better understand which contexts of NA placement and shift in an L2 are more difficult to acquire and why. Two experiments are presented, which examine both L2 English and L2 Spanish. These two …
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Accent and syllable structure in Passamaquoddy
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1989.
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Accent bias towards nonnative accented counseling trainees
The current study examined how accent affects people’s perception of counselors-in-training in the United States. Broadly, research has consistently shown that people with nonnative accents are viewed less favorably and evaluated less positively compared to those with native accents (e.g., …
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Acoustic Approaches to Gender and Accent Identification
… of speech. A less researched problem is that of accent recognition. Although this is a similar problem to language identification, di�erent accents of a language exhibit more fine-grained di�erences between classes than languages. This presents a tougher problem for traditional classification …
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Accent bias and racial accents in academic comprehension
… to see if we can understand what is being said. Accents, however, can cause someone to deem another person unintelligible not because of the content of their production, but rather because of how they said it—the phonological or acoustic properties of the production. This study seeks to determine …
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Exploring ESL learner accent preferences: a longitudinal study
… (ESL) learners’ perceptions of different English accents, as well as their preferences and perceptions of their own L2 English accents. Using data collected via in-depth interviews with four undergraduate ESL students about their L2 communication experiences, the data reveals that participants’ …
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"""Accent"" 1940-1960: The history of a little magazine"
Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature was founded in Urbana, Illinois, in 1940 by Kerker Quinn, a graduate student in the English department at the University of Illinois. It appeared regularly from 1940 to 1960, eventually numbering eighty issues. Consciously avoiding any one particular literary …
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The evaluation of second language fluency and foreign accent
… is second language fluency? What is a foreign accent? Is it possible for an adult second language learner to speak fluently with a heavy accent or vice versa? What factors contribute to the perception of fluency and a foreign accent? What acoustic attributes correlate with the perception of …
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Regional Accent Discrimination in Hiring Decisions: A Language Attitude Study
… presented to support the notion that US regional accents influence decisions in the hiring process. Fifty-six people who hire for a variety of corporations participated in a computerized survey, during which they listened to speakers from regions of the US reading the same passage. Respondents …
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Children's Use of Accent as a Cue for Cooperative Potential
… children make social judgments based on accent, consistently displaying a social preference for individuals who speak with a native accent. One theory hypothesizes that this preference to favor individuals who speak like us stems from our evolutionary history, during which accent and …
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Reading With the Masoretes: The Exegetical Utility of Masoretic Accent Patterns
… interpreters commonly neglect the masoretic accents in exegesis, this system clarifies and confirms the sense of the text through highly predictable patterns. This dissertation seeks to establish the presence of intentional Masoretic accent patterns that correspond to syntactic features of …
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Accent Conversion via Formant-based Spectral Mapping and Pitch Contour Modification
Accent conversion intends to change the accent of a speaker to a desired accent and preserve the speaker’s voice identity. This technology can offer a number of useful applications. For example, integrating accent conversion to a text-to-speech system (TTS) can produce a voice with a desired accent …
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Phonological Awareness and Foreign Accent: A Handbook for German EFL Teachers
<p>Foreign accent, or the deviation from non-native speech, has a direct impact on communication and may even result in undesirable consequences for the speaker. Instead of perceiving statements as more difficult to understand, native speakers often perceive them as less trustworthy. However, the …
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Accent and Grouping Structures in the String Quartets of Béla Bartók
… An analytical method using Timepoint Accent Structures (TAS) allows for the comparison of rhythms resulting from patterns of accent produced by pitch onset, dynamic stress, articulation or any other accentual factors. Timepoint Grouping Structures (TGS) delineate the number of …
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Automatic Dialect and Accent Recognition and its Application to Speech Recognition
… on many factors, such as their dialect and accent as well as their socioeconomic background. These individual differences typically introduce modeling difficulties for large-scale speaker-independent systems designed to process input from any variant of a given language. This dissertation …
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THRELFALL’S BOULDER: An investigation into the relationship between accent, dialect and identity.
In this thesis I have assessed the links between accent, dialect and identity, positing the conceit that ‘we wear our cultural identity on our tongues’. I assess and demonstrate how language (dialect) and intonation (accent) can be indicative of an identity. This thesis is presented in two parts: …
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