Nervous system presents the grey and the white matter. The cord grey matter is the integrative area for the spinal reflexes and other motor functions. Sensory signals enter the cord through the sensory nerve roots, and after they have two different destinations: (a) the grey matter of the cord, where some sensory fibre or its collaterals terminate; and (b) nervous system higher levels, reaching...

This study describes the segmental and suprasegmental phonology of Adur Niesu, a Loloish (or Ngwi) language spoken mainly in Liangshan, Sichuan, southwest China. Phonemically, there are 41 consonants, 10 monophthongs 1 diphthong Niesu. All syllables open. Its changes happen to vowels, featuring high vowel fricativization, lowering, centralization, assimilation fusion. It is common for Niesu be ...

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We present a novel approach to discriminating native and nonnative utterances based on suprasegmental features extracted at the Accent Group (AG) level. Past studies have shown modeling a set of shared intonation patterns across AGs to be effective in predicting local f0 contour shapes. Here we demonstrate that AG level prosodic features are also effective in nativeness classification. The prop...

      Schimke immune-osseous dysplasia (SIOD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder presented with specific facial features, skeletal dysplasia, steroid resistance nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) and cellular immune insufficiency. This is a SIOD case reported from Iran. He was 5 years old boy when evaluated for proteinuria and short stature. In appearance, we detected hyperpigmented macules, kyphosc...

How accurate are listeners at identifying the ethnicities of political figures from one-word samples? Do suprasegmental variables provide a basis for these judgments? Tokens of six lexical items were extracted from speeches by seven male political figures of different stated ethnic identities. In a Mechanical Turk experiment, 94 listeners heard each token twice, then responded to the multiplech...

In the present study we examined the speech processing skills of a child having Landau-Kleffer syndrome (LKS). We assessed two kind of language processing skills using event related brain potentials (ERPs): the discrimination of segmental and that of suprasegmental cues. Results indicate that the two kind of cues were processed asymmetrically: the mismatch negativity component (MMN) was obtaine...

In the field of second language acquisition research the overall interest in pronunciation is relatively limited. Within the group of researchers that do take an interest in pronunciation, many adhere to the idea that prosodic errors are more detrimental to intelligibility of nonnative speakers than segmental errors. This view can be found in recent handbooks for foreign language teaching as we...

Capturing the large variability of conversational speech in the framework of purely phone based speech recognizers is virtually impossible. It has been shown earlier that suprasegmental features such as speaking rate, duration and syllabic, syntactic and semantic structure are important predictors of pronunciation variation. In order to allow for a tighter coupling of these predictors of pronun...