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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"monosyllabic"”.
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Psychometrically Equivalent Arabic Monosyllabic Word Recognition Materials
… and psychometrically equate a set of Arabic monosyllabic word lists to use in the measurement of the word recognition score. Familiar Arabic monosyllabic words were digitally recorded by a native male talker from Jordan who was judged to have a standard Arabic dialect. Twenty native Arabic …
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On the dative singular -u ending in monosyllabic strong feminine ō-stem substantives in Old Icelandic: An overview and longitudinal study
The dative singular ending form of monosyllabic strong feminine ō-stem substantives in Modern Icelandic is typically a null, or zero, ending, where there was at a much earlier stage a -u ending. This archaic dative singular -u ending was already on the decline in Old Icelandic but can still be seen …
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Is Speech Sound Selection Important for Diagnostic Word-Recognition Tasks?
… an important consideration in the development of monosyllabic word recognition tasks (e.g., Lehiste & Peterson, 1959). Therefore, efforts have been made in the careful selection of words to ensure the phonemic composition of a word list is representative of English. Some studies show lack of …
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A new computer-based speech therapy tutor for vowel production
… production. The Tutor would be able to analyse monosyllabic utterances in real-time, extract the vowel portion and match this to a pre-determined template, and display the result with no appreciable delay.<br/><br/>A fully-working prototype has been developed which employs general principles of …
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A synchronic classification of Rukai dialects in Taiwan: A quantitative study of mutual intelligibility
… impression. While Chinese is known as a monosyllabic and isolating language, Rukai is multisyllabic and agglutinating. Cheng's method of classifying Chinese dialects is therefore slightly modified to account for Rukai synchronic relationship in terms of sound correspondences, stress …
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An Experimental Evaluation of Stop-Plosive and Fricative Consonant Intelligibility by Tracheoesophageal Speakers in Quiet and Noise
… multi-talker noise. Eighteen listeners evaluated monosyllabic consonant-vowel-consonant words produced by 14 TE speakers using an open-response paradigm. Our findings indicate that overall intelligibility was significantly lower in noise. Further examination showed a differential effect of noise …
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Frequency, Attention, and Phonetic Characteristics that Influence the Right-Ear Advantage for Speech Perception
… place of articulation (POA). Participants heard monosyllabic rhyming words from the Halwes (1990) Fused Dichotic Word Test and were instructed to attend to the left or right ear, or to divide attention equally. Stimuli in Experiment 1 were unfiltered, high-pass filtered, or low-pass filtered, and …
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Segmental phonology and Black South African English speakers : communicative success with standard dialect listeners
… grouped into 10 dyads. BSAE subjects read 120 monosyllabic English words to StdSAE subjects. Written data of StdSAE subjects were analysed to determine patterns of success and failure in the communication of single word items by BSAE subjects. Specific difficulties with vowels, dipthongs and …
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Tone classification of syllable -segmented Thai speech based on multilayer perceptron
Thai is a monosyllabic and tonal language. Thai makes use of tone to convey lexical information about the meaning of a syllable. Thai has five distinctive tones and each tone is well represented by a single F0 contour pattern. In general, a Thai syllable with a different tone has a different …
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An onset is an onset: evidence from abstraction of newly-learned phonotactic constraints
… most studies of these patterns have used monosyllabic stimuli (e.g., 'pef') and, thus, they do not tell us whether the patterns concern syllable or word positions. In a series of experiments we investigated the learning of new phonotactic constraints in an experimental setting that is …
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The emergence of group stress in medieval French
… of stress clash resolution, and the frequency of monosyllabic words combine to favour reanalysis of the French stress system in the pre-1250 period. Finally, the hypothesis that prosodic change affected verb-second word order in medieval French is reconsidered. It is argued that light …
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Use of Verb-Noun Collocations by Advanced Learners of Chinese
… of collocations. All three groups used more monosyllabic V-N collocations in discussing daily topics and more disyllabic V-N collocations in discussing academic topics. Moreover, CFL learners and CFL learners exhibited both similarities and differences in applying collocations under the two …
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A Phonological Study of the Tegem Language
… and seven open syllables in Tegem where the monosyllabic lexemes of CVC and CVV are the most salient among its 13 syllable types. The research also recognized a pattern of backness (±back) vowel harmony in the disyllabic nouns and adjectives. The syllable is determined as the bearing unit of …
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Tone sandhi in Xiangshan Wu Chinese and beyond: patterns of variation and diachronic development
… findings. Chapter 3 establishes the Xiangshan monosyllabic tone system as a foundation for the sandhi analyses. Chapters 4 and 5 examine disyllabic tone sandhi across three syntactic structures, identifying general patterns aligned with typological observations across Northern Wu: lexical …
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Speech rhythm: the language-specific integration of pitch and duration
… interact as cues to rhythmic groups in series of monosyllabic digits and letters; the two cues were significantly more effective than one when heard simultaneously, but significantly less effective than one when heard in conflicting positions around the rhythmic-group boundary location, and native …
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Swedish Word Accents
… The Standard Solution assigned accent 1 to monosyllabic words and accent 2 to disyllabic ones. The Modified Standard Solution assigned accent 1 to monomorphemic words and accent 2 to plurimorphemic ones. Both analyses captured important generalizations about accent in Swedish, but involved …
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The phonetic correlates of pharyngealization and pharyngealization spread patterns in Cairene Arabic an acoustic and real-time magnetic resonance imaging study
… where X is the target word). Target words are monosyllabic minimal pairs of Cairene Arabic in which the plain-pharyngealized contrast occurs at the edges of the word, and in which the vowels immediately adjacent to the plain-pharyngealized contrast are /a:, i:, u:/ and /a, i, u/. The role of …
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Recombinative Generalisation and Psycholinguistic Grain Size: An Investigation of Reading Related Skills in Adult Readers and Children with Learning Difficulties
… by beginning readers of English (e.g., monosyllabic and disyllabic words, consonant blend words, regular and exception words). Seven experiments were undertaken with literate adult participants to thoroughly test the effectiveness of the new MTS training protocol. A novel (invented) …
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Nulla umquam obmutescet vetustas: Hyperbaton in Cicero's oratory
… The word order only occurs with a handful of monosyllabic prepositions. Furthermore, one subtype is characterised by the combination of a determiner and a generic or anaphoric noun. Other cases occur with other types of modifiers, and these seem to be restricted to certain semantic categories, …