Some studies on training effects of pronunciation instruction have claimed that the prosodic features has at segmental level and level, with greater reported when prosody is main focus training. This paper revisits this claim by looking Italian learners German. In a pre-post-test design, we investigate acoustic changes after in learners’ productions two regarded as segmental. The were pitch exc...

It has been long held that segmental and prosodic aspects of speech belong to very different domains. Segments refer to vowels and consonants which constitute the phonemes that make up the words of speech, and they are what most writing systems record. As such they are viewed as the core components of speech. Prosodic components, also known as suprasegmentals, refer to properties like stress, t...

background: sub-acute bacterial endocarditis (sbe) rarely presents with features of a small vessel vasculitis. patients with sbe can also develop multiple serological abnormalities including anca. in this report, we present a case of infective endocarditis mimicked anca associated glomerulonephritis.case presentation: a 57-year old male with a clinical picture of rapidly progressive renal failu...

mandibular discontinuity defects following a segmental mandibulectomy defects present a major challenge to the rehabilitation team. with no immediate intervention to rehabilitate the patient, definitive mandibular guidance prostheses with a metal guiding flange and acrylic teeth on the resected side can be used successfully to stabilize the occlusion and correct the deviation. the present case ...

The goal in this paper is to show how the classiication of patterns of phonetic features (=phones) to phonemes can be acquired. This classi-cational process is modelled by a supervised feature selection method, based on a weighted Hamming distance, augmented by Boolean functions describing exceptions. An important aspect is the diierentiation of rules and exceptions during learning. 1 Phonetic ...

A-20-year old male, with no significant medical history, presented with clinical features mimicking a perforated acute appendicitis. Because of features of peritonitis, a laparotomy was performed which showed a segment of small bowel with multiple large diverticula and mesenteric cysts. A segmental small bowel resection was performed. The patient made an uneventful recovery from surgery. Histol...

Background. Darier's disease (DD), also known as Keratosis Follicularis or Darier-White disease, is a rare disorder of keratinization. DD can present as a generalized autosomal dominant condition as well as a localized or segmental postzygotic condition (Vázquez et al., 2002). Clinical features of DD include greasy, warty papules and plaques on seborrheic areas, dystrophic nails, palmo-plantar ...

In this review, we describe general features of the expression of cadherins in the developing central nervous system (CNS) of vertebrates. In the early neuroepithelium, the expression of several cadherins is restricted to specific regions corresponding to segmental domains. Segmental boundaries often coincide with changes in cadherin expression, subdividing the primordial CNS into different adh...

Prosody plays an important role in neutral-to-emotional voice conversion. Prosodic features like pitch are usually estimated and altered at a segmental level based on short windowing of speech signal (where the signal is expected to be quasi-stationary). This results in a frame-wise change of acoustical parameters for synthesizing emotionalized speech. In order to convert a neutral speech to an...

This book offers a comprehensive description of the phonetic and phonological features of Sumi, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nagaland, North-east India. It represents the first in-depth investigation of the acoustic phonetics and phonology of tone in Sumi, and is one of the first extensive acoustic descriptions of a language of Nagaland. The book describes the segmental phonology, syllable struc...