Listener bias is a well-documented phenomenon in linguistics and sociolinguistics research. Listeners have demonstrated bias in assigning personality traits such as intelligence, selfconfidence and likeability to speakers from different language backgrounds (Delamere, 1996). A study by Derwing and Munro (1997), demonstrated that intelligibility scores assigned to nonnative speech were better wh...

This study investigates the perceptual consequences and differences in vowel production between cerebral palsy (CP) afflicted Greek speakers and their normal counterparts. Formant (F1 and F2) values for the five vowels of Modern Greek were extracted from productions of both male and female speakers in stressed and unstressed conditions. These same productions were presented to normal hearing Gr...

The article is devoted to the actual problem of «play meanings» in symbolic direction modern choreography, presented theaters’ stagingin Western Europe. research goal identify balletfeatures, which actively uses innovative methods. study objectives are collect and analyze opinions art experts critics on issues ballet European theater productions. analysis period was chosen for three years 2020-...

Purpose: This paper examined whether naïve listeners could perceive phonetic detail in children's productions of /s/ and /T/, and whether their perception of /s/ and /θ/ could be biased by their belief about the child's overall speech-production ability. Method: In Experiment 1, listeners provided judgments of children's productions of /s/ and /T/ using a visual analog scale (VAS). In Experimen...

Agents in creative enterprises are embedded in networks that inspire, support, and evaluate their work. Here, we investigate how the mechanisms by which creative teams self-assemble determine the structure of these collaboration networks. We propose a model for the self-assembly of creative teams that has its basis in three parameters: team size, the fraction of newcomers in new productions, an...