The combinatorial interaction of suprasegmental and contextually induced segmental variations has been shown to produce independent coarticulatory effects. This study extended the locus equation (LE) methodology for the first time to a tonal language, Yoruba, in order to document how variations in tone might interact with CV coarticulation and to understand the patterning of its 4 voiced stops....

The present study set out to identify the problematic areas of pronunciation among Iranian female EFL learners. Further, this study investigated the relationship between empathy and authentic pronunciation, along with gender as a moderator variable. Comparing segmental features and phonological processes of both languages helped teachers to predict the target errors. To reach such a goa...

conclusion non-mass-like lesions, lesions with focal or segmental distribution, with a “plateau” enhancement curve type were the most frequent findings of dcis lesions on mri. background adequate diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (dcis) could lead to efficacious treatment. due to the fact that dcis lesions can progress to invasive carcinomas and that the sensitivity of the standard examinat...

The general objective of this study is to clear up the relative importance of prosody in the identification of a foreign accent. The methodology we propose, based on the prosody transplantation paradigm, can be applied to different languages or language varieties. Here, it is applied to Magrhrebianaccented French: we wanted to study what is perceived when the segmental and suprasegmental charac...

Recognizing human emotions/attitudes from speech cues has gained increased attention recently. Most previous work has focused primarily on suprasegmental prosodic features calculated at the utterance level for modeling against details at the segmental phoneme level. Based on the hypothesis that different emotions have varying effects on the properties of the different speech sounds, this paper ...

Nigerian English like a variety of world Englishes has received scholarly investigations at the segmental and suprasegmental levels. At level, studies on major varieties have identified characteristic nature stress assignment interactions, but little or no research explored loanwords in English. The study examines placements among educated Igbo Yoruba speakers A well-prepared text was read by s...