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Perry, Conrad; Wong, Richard Kwok-Shing; Matthews, Stephen – Language and Speech, 2009
We examined the relationship between the acoustic duration of syllables and the silent pauses that follow them in Cantonese. The results showed that at major syntactic junctures, acoustic plus silent pause durations were quite similar for a number of different syllable types whose acoustic durations differed substantially. In addition, it appeared…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Syllables, Acoustics, Time
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Mattingly, Ignatius G. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Language Patterns, Language Standardization, Phonemics
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Wenk, B. J. – Language and Speech, 1985
A descriptive model elaborated to account for the rhythmic organization of French and English is applied to the speech of French learners of English to identify the particular type of cross-linguistic influence operating therein. Evidence is presented for the existence of transitional rhythmic groups, perceived in the interlanguage vowel reduction…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, English (Second Language), French, Interference (Language)