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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"accents"”.
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Swedish Word Accents
… It is also clear that the distinction between accents is better expressed as a distinction in pitch domain. I assume that ""the domain is an explicit aspect of phonological structure, with the same status as structures for the syllable, foot, word etc."" (Cole and Kisseberth 1994). For H …
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Online accommodation of regional accents
Despite the ubiquity of between-talker differences in accent and dialect, little is known about how listeners accommodate this source of variability in online language comprehension. Here we sought to identify constraints on this process, in order to inform candidate theories. Three experiments …
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On the Swedish pitch accents
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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Swedish word accents in sentence perspective
Abstract is not available
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On the perception of pitch accents
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
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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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Perception and analysis of Spanish accents in English speech
The purpose of the present study was to determine what relates most closely to the degree of perceived foreign accent in the English speech of native Spanish speakers: intonation, vowel length, stress, voice onset time (VOT), or segmental accuracy. Nineteen native English speaking listeners rated …
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Non-native speaker attitudes toward non-native English accents
The increasing number of proficient, non-native English speakers, both in U.S. academic institutions and around the globe, warrants considerable investigation into possible norms developing within non-native to non-native interactions. This report analyzes attitudes toward accent, a prominent …
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Perception of Lexical Pitch Accents by Serbian and French Speakers
… the pitch movement on short lexical pitch accents. On the identification task, the lexical pitch accent types could not be reliably identified, which implied the lack of metalinguistic knowledge of lexical pitch accents by Serbian listeners. The second experiment was a Sequence Recall Task …
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The economics of language: accents, trust and social exchange in labour markets
This thesis examines the role that English language, and accent in particular, might play in strategic interactions characterized by asymmetric information. The experiment in this study - named the Trust Game - is designed to reveal the degree of trust and trustworthiness individuals display …
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Intergenerational Differences of the Perception of British and American Accents in the Czech Republic
… in the perception of American and British accents in the Czech Republic and the factors influencing this perception, with an emphasis on the historical and political context of the country. The theoretical part focuses on the age factor in foreign language acquisition, especially on the …
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The Cultural Dual Identity in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban and Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents
… Alvarez's <em>How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents </em>are two novels that explore the effects immigration can have on the development of one's identity, respectively. Throughout both novels, it is understood that in order for an immigrant to have a sense of belonging, an exploratory …
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Accents, Pausal Forms and Qere/Ketiv in the Bible Translations and Commentaries of Saadya Gaon and the Karaites of Jerusalem
… reading tradition can reflect exegesis. The accents and pausal forms affect exegesis by demarcating syntactic/semantic boundaries through pauses in reading. Some scholars have noticed, however, that, at times, the pausal forms and accents reflect different pauses within the same verse. The …
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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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The Effect Of Colored Accent Marks In Music Notation During The Sight-Reading Process For High School And College Wind Instrumentalists
… was unaltered to determine natural tendencies of accents during the sight-reading process for each group. The posttest excerpt had the accent marks printed in red ink for the experimental group only, while the control group read the excerpt in unaltered black ink. All of the tests were …
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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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Animated Films and Linguistic Stereotypes: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Accent Use in Disney Animated Films
… if Disney animated films released in 2016 use accents to express the nature of the characters. A discourse analysis is conducted with two animated films produced by Disney Studios to examine the language choices concerning accent use. Results show that these films convey language ideologies in …
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Accent Conversion via Formant-based Spectral Mapping and Pitch Contour Modification
… data from an individual who can speak in two accents. This removes the effects of inter-speaker variability and facilitates efficient identification and analysis of acoustic features of different accents. Two British regional accents which display distinct differences to the human listener …
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Prosody and syntactic processing
… intonational phrase boundaries and pitch accents, are used in syntactic processing. Traditionally, it has been argued that while intonational phrase boundaries interact with syntactic structure, pitch accents do not. One apparent exception to this view is work by Schafer, Carter, Clifton, …
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