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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"vowel production"”.
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Vowel production variation in college students based on social integration
… the exemplar theory has been extended to speech production with evidence that the perception-production loop can cause shifts over time. While exemplars are considered robust and stable categories, Clopper (2014) suggested that shifts can occur when individuals move to an environment in which …
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A new computer-based speech therapy tutor for vowel production
… to help such people to improve their speech production wherever possible. The aim of this work was to develop a computer-based speech therapy tutor for vowel production. The Tutor would be able to analyse monosyllabic utterances in real-time, extract the vowel portion and match this to a …
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The effects of lexical stress, intonational pitch accent, and speech rate on vowel quality in Catalan and Spanish
… languages tend to display stress-induced vowel quality variation. In some languages the effect is very salient, resulting in a smaller vowel inventory in unstressed syllables and stress-conditioned rule-governed vowel alternations within paradigms (phonological vowel reduction). Other …
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Assessing functional links between speech production and perception in multilingual speakers
The relationship between speech production and speech perception capacities is highly debated. The picture is complicated further by studies of second language acquisition, where development of speech perception is not always accompanied by proportional gains in speech production, and vice versa. …
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The Perception and Production of Portuguese Mid-Vowels by Native Speakers of American English
… perceiving and producing the Portuguese mid-vowels {o} and {e}. The beginning learners were enrolled in their second semester of Portuguese and had rudimentary knowledge of Portuguese. The advanced learners had all lived in Brazil for nearly two years and were enrolled in a more advanced …
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Sound perception and production in a foreign language
… study addresses the question of how German vowels are perceived and produced by Polish learners of German as a Foreign Language. It comprises three main experiments: a discrimination experiment, a production experiment, and an identification experiment. With the exception of the …