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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"praat"”.
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Cambios en los parámetros vocales de docentes, durante el curso escolar, medidos con PRAAT e Índice Acústico de Calidad Vocal
… vocal (HNR) con el programa de análisis acústico PRAAT. Además, se estudió la percepción que tenían los docentes sobre su salud vocal con el test VHI-10 versión española. La muestra se compuso de 93 docentes de los cuales el 71% fueron mujeres. El 41.4% impartían en las etapas de Infantil/Primaria …
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A beszédtempó változtatásának hatása a hadarás tüneteire
… felvételek készültek, amelyeket a Praat program segítségével elemeztünk. Vizsgálja a megakadásjelenségeket valamit a beszédtempó és az artikulációs tempót.
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Towards a declamatory performance in Schubert Lieder
… poems ‘Erster Verlust’ and ‘Geistes Gruß.’ PRAAT speech analysis software was used to analyse the recordings. The participants’ use of stress, emphasis and rubato was extrapolated and used (in combination with the historical evidence) to speculatively recreate several declamatory …
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初级阶段学习者对华语擦音与塞擦音的习得 = The acquisition of the fricatives and affricatives in mandarin by elementary level learners
… is followed by acoustic analysis on the basis of Praat, with an attempt to investigate the value of the learners? pronunciation. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 introduces of the background and the motivation of the study. Chapter 2 is the literature review of the field, including …
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Applicability of basic virtual reality vs. pictures as prompts for conversation in dementia care
… Choice condition. Using voice recordings and Praat, communication was evaluated through word count, conversation initiations, and pitch analysis metrics. Instances of observable happiness indices, such as smiling and laughter, were documented throughout all sessions. The study found the …
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An Evolutionary Algorithms Approach to Physical Modelling of Vocal Synthesis
… Articulatory Inversion of vowels using the Praat physical model. Speech synthesis by computational means has been a field for many decades, giving rise to several differing approaches. While the physical modelling approach has been a continually active area of research, it has yet to prove a …
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Prosody in Kichwa
… analyzes approximately 150 utterances using Praat and ToBI-style prosodic annotation. The findings reveal a consistent alignment between the nuclear pitch accent and the leftmost constituent of the verb phrase in neutral declarative sentences, supporting the hypothesis that Salasaka Kichwa …
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Speech style, syllable stress, and the second-language acquisition of Spanish /e/ and /o/
… and diphthongization were measured using Praat. ANOVA tests were run to determine the main and interaction effects of participant group, elicitation task, and syllable stress on these four response variables for each vowel. Significant main effects as well as interaction effects were found …
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Changing sociolinguistic identities of young, middle-class 'Coloured' people in post-apartheid Cape Town
… was done using a computer software programme, Praat, to record a total of 4410 tokens for the 20 speakers. The second level of analysis investigated how the informants constructed social identities in those unprecedented educational circumstances. I used three theories of identity to do this: …
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Changing sociolinguistic identities of young, middle-class 'Coloured' people in post-apartheid Cape Town
… was done using a computer software programme, Praat, to record a total of 4410 tokens for the 20 speakers. The second level of analysis investigated how the informants constructed social identities in those unprecedented educational circumstances. I used three theories of identity to do this: …
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An acoustic and perceptual analysis of vowels preceding final /-s/ deletion in the speech of Granada, Spain and Cartagena, Colombia
… Granada Spanish and acoustically analyzed with Praat. In addition, a perception test was arranged with these speech samples and administered to twenty speakers of Granada Spanish. For the purpose of making a cross-dialect comparison, the experiment above was replicated with native speakers of …
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A sociophonetic investigation of ethnolinguistic differences in voice quality among young, South African English speakers
… segmented speech samples using FAVE and PRAAT. The VoiceSauce measurement data were statistically analyzed by means of a linear mixed effects regression analysis and Wilcoxon rank sum tests using the statistical package R to evaluate the significance of ethnicity as a variable. The effect …
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The perception and practice of silence in Australian and Jordanian societies : a socio-pragmatic study
… from the end of each conversation were analysed. Praat software was used to detect the period of silence in conversations. The data analysis drew on Sacks et al’s (1974) turn-taking model, Halliday’s notion of context of situation, and Conversation Analysis. The findings of the study demonstrate …
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A comparative study of the Morphosyntaz and Phonetics of Town Bemba and Standard Bemba of the Copperbelt Zambia
… for the morphosyntax data; socio-phonetics using Praat and Normalisation of vowels for phonetic data; and a linguistic characterisation of language varieties were used to characterise TB and establish its status. The results show that TB is quite similar to the base language SB and exemplifies …
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Entwicklung, Implementierung und Evaluation eines Instrumentes für die akustische Dysarthriediagnostik
… entwickelt. Die Basis bildete dabei das Programm PRAAT (Boersma & Weenink 2008), das es ermöglicht, mit Hilfe der Skriptsteuerung Auswertungsalgorithmen zu programmieren und somit große Teile der sonst manuellen Auswertung phonetischer Eigenschaften des Sprachsignals zu automatisieren. Der …
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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
… in a sound attenuating booth and analyzed in Praat to examine the acoustic properties (i.e. the formant frequencies) of the sounds of interest. Results from articulatory measurements are corroborated with results from acoustic measurements of formant frequency modifications.
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Estudio acústico de la variación interlocutor en sujetos hablantes nativos del español de Santiago de Chile
… realizaron con el software de análisis espectral Praat. Las variables a analizar son: la frecuencia fundamental (F0), los formantes medios (F1, F2, F3) y la distancia inter-formántica F0-F1; F2-F3; F0-F3 de las vocales /i/ /u/ /a/ y las consonantes nasales /n/ y /m/. IV Resultados y Conclusiones: …
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Prosodic Boundary Effects on Syntactic Disambiguation in Children with Cochlear Implants, and in Normal Hearing Adults and Children
… Pittsburgh, PA). The sentences were recorded on Praat software (Boersma & Weenink, 2013), controlling for F0, duration of components and pauses between components. The prosodic boundaries were measured with the ToBI coding system distinguishing acoustic measures of intermediate phrase (ip) and …
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Social dynamics of Catalan-Spanish contact in the evolution of Catalonian Spanish
… a combination of manual and automated methods in Praat, along a gradient, non-discrete continuum. Inferential statistics, including chi-square and mixed-effect GLM techniques were performed using R. Results from these statistical analyses provide empirical evidence that [ɫ] and [z] production in …
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A comparative study of variation in stress and intonation patterns in the spoken English of some selected Yoruba and Zulu university undergraduate students
… one after another and were recorded using PRAAT, a program for doing phonetic analyses and sound manipulations by Boersma and Weenink (2010). The study employed the framework of Metrical Phonology in the representation of stress. This was based on the view of rhythm proposed by Liberman …
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