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de Ruiter, Laura E. – Language and Speech, 2011
In a data set of 291 spontaneous utterances from German 5-year-olds, 7-year-olds and adults, nuclear pitch contours were labeled manually using the GToBI annotation system. Ten different contour types were identified.The fundamental frequency (F0) of these contours was modeled using third-order orthogonal polynomials, following an approach similar…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Speech, Syllables, German
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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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Dalton, Martha; Ni Chasaide, Ailbhe – Language and Speech, 2005
A comparison of the contour alignment of nuclear and initial prenuclear accents was carried out for the Irish dialects of Gaoth Dobhair in Ulster (GD-U) and Cois Fharraige in Connaught (CF-C). This was done across conditions where the number of unstressed syllables following the nuclear and preceding the initial prenuclear accents was varied from…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Dialects, Irish, Foreign Countries
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Carter, Allyson K.; Clopper, Cynthia G. – Language and Speech, 2002
English-speaking children reduce words by omitting syllables in certain predictable patterns. To better understand the nature of phonological reductions in children, this study explored whether adults produce predictable output patterns when reducing words. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, College Students, English
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Benguerel, Andre-Pierre – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), French, Intonation, Language Patterns
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Elordieta, Gorka; Calleja, Nagore – Language and Speech, 2005
This paper presents patterns of accentual alignment in two varieties of Spanish spoken in the Basque Country: Lekeitio Spanish (LS), with speakers whose other native language is Lekeitio Basque (LB); and Vitoria Spanish (VS), with monolingual speakers of Spanish from the city of Vitoria. These patterns are compared to those of Madrid Spanish (MS),…
Descriptors: Syllables, Monolingualism, Spanish, Indo European Languages