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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"syllables"”.
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Syllables and Concepts in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition
… perform more accurately if it were trained on syllables instead of words. Though several researchers have examined the use of syllables in the acoustic model of an LVCSR system, very little attention has been paid to their use in the language model. The second hypothesis has to do with adding a …
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Syllables and templates : evidence from southern Sierra Miwok
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1992.
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ENVIRONMENTAL CATALYSTS AND OROFACIAL KINEMATICS OF EMERGENT CANONICAL SYLLABLES
The vocalizations and jaw kinematics of 30 infants aged 6-8 months were recorded using a Motion Analysis System and audiovisual technologies. This study represents the first attempt to determine the effect of play environment on infants' rate of vocalization and jaw movement. Four play conditions …
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Syllables and the M Language : improving unknown word guessing
Despite the huge amount of computer data that exists today, the task of sharing information between organizations is still tackled largely on a case-by-case basis. The M Language is a data language that improves data sharing and interoperability by building a platform on top of XML and a semantic …
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Factors Affecting Pretonic Deletion in English Syllables: A Corpus Study
… is <em>massive reduction</em>, in which entire syllables are deleted. We focus on a subtype of massive reduction, pretonic vowel deletion, where the vowel in an unstressed syllable is deleted and the flanking consonants form an onset cluster, V --> φ / C__C, such as the word <em>Columbus</em> …
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Changes in Activation During Production of Syllables from a Second Language
The current study sought to understand brain plasticity in adults associated with acquiring novel speech sounds. The Speech Learning Model suggests that the perception and the perceived similarity between L1 and L2 sounds will affect the acquisition of these L2 sounds (Flege, 1995). Productions of …
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Evidence for the representation of syllables and syllable structure in the production of normal speech
… views of the syllable. Some theories do not use syllables. Those that do, differ on whether syllables are chunks that specify their phonological content or schemas that specify an abstract consonant-vowel (CV) frame apart from other phonological content. A third view uses both schemas and chunks …
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A classroom-based study of Chinese as a Foreign Language pronunciation targeting syllables with final `-i'
… study targeted a unique set of status-bearing syllables in Chinese described in the literature as potentially difficult for English-L1 learners by measuring the perceived and productive levels of difficulty for these sounds in 30 secondary-level CFL learners. An error analysis of learner …
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Ear asymmetry : the differential effects of white noise on the perception of voiced and voiceless CV nonsense syllables.
… perception of voiced and voiceless CV nonsense syllables. Under the experimental condition, one ear received CV syllables and white noise at a S/N ratio of +6 dB SPL while the contralateral ear received just white noise of equal intensity. It was posited that the resulting perceptual complexity …
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Linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of the omission of sounds and syllables in isiXhosa speech: an explanatory guide for 2nd language learners of the language
The shortening of words, sometimes even to just one syllable, variously referred to as clipping, reduction and truncation, is a recognized phenomenon in slang but also in authentic speech. Most of us know that the English farewell “Goodbye!” often reduced to just “Bye!” is a clipped form of “God be …
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Air Flow and Volume During Repeated Syllable and Sentence Productions
… syllable measures during the repetition of both syllables and sentences in young men and women. No difference was found between midvowel flow values of syllables produced at three and five syllables per second. Midvowel flow measures were generally lower than those reported in the literature. …
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Neutral Tone in Mandarin: Representation and Interaction with Utterance-level Prosody
In Standard Mandarin, there are syllables that do not carry any of the four citation tones (T1: High-level tone, T2: Mid-rising tone, T3: Low-convex tone and T4: High-falling tone), and they are said to have a neutral tone (NT). These syllables are usually shorter, lighter, prosodically grouped …
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A Perceptually-Based Model of Children's First Words
… with the argument that stressed and final syllables are particularly salient to children and that biases to attend to these salient syllables may constrain the task of identifying words in a stream of speech: Syllables which were stressed and final in the adult target were more accurately …
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Implicit learning of phonotactics: an example of pure associative learning?
… were exposed to sequences of nonsense syllables which obeyed artificial phonotactic constraints. For example, /f/ showed up only at the beginning of syllables for some participants (whereas in English, it appears both at the beginning and end of syllables). Participants spoke sequences …
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An optimality-theoretic analysis of syllable structure in Qassimi Arabic
… structure and the treatment of superheavy syllables in QA. Results confirm three main arguments proposed in this study. First: onset clusters in QA are prohibited. Second: trimoraic syllables in QA are prohibited. Third: the concept of contiguity, which prevents internal epenthesis into …
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A Fundamental Frequency Data Acquisition System (FFDAS).
… are used to indicate syllable stress. Stressed syllables, for example, are usually of higher frequency than unstressed syllables and of greater duration. Because speakers cannot adjust loudness and pitch period completely independently, as will be discussed in the next section, stressed …
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Precision teaching as an instructional procedure for training social skills in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia
… was determined by recording the number of syllables spoken per minute. In this experiment each participant was able to increase his or her performance from that of baseline for number of syllables per minute and percent of correct responses. This experiment also supports the hypothesis that …
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Syllable "sonority" hierarchy and the stress patterns in Pulaar. A metrical approach
… heavy versus light, bimoraic versus monomoraic syllables. An analysis of the metrical structure and other phonological processes of Pulaar, a member of the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo Language Family (Greenberg, 1955 & Niang, 1989), shows the need for further distinctions beyond the …
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Consonant Loss Profile and Perceptual Confusions for Hearing-Impaired Listeners in Noise
… The CP analysis showed that for most of target syllables the major confusions were evoked by the same competitors for both gain and no-gain conditions, but for others completely different CV syllables competed with the targets.
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Syllabification and syllable weight in Ancient Greek songs
… speech). This is the mapping of a sequence of syllables/segments onto a sequence of timing units or beats. The empirical ground is provided by Ancient Greek musical scores. We analyze the way that sensitivity to syllable weight manifests itself in beat mapping. In Ancient Greek, the musical …
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