The present study investigated the efficacy of segmental/suprasegmental vs. holistic pronunciation instruction in development listening comprehension skills by EFL learners, using a pre-test post-test design. Six groups 20 intermediate learners at university Iran took part study, all receiving same amount (10 hours over 5 weeks). control group listened to/viewed authentic audio recordings and m...

Atypical speech prosody is a hallmark feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that presents across the lifespan, but is difficult to reliably characterize qualitatively. Given the great heterogeneity of symptoms in ASD, an acoustic-based objective measure would be vital for clinical assessment and interventions. In this study, we investigate speech features in childpsychologist conversational...

Language and Cognitive Processes Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713683153 Processing dependencies between segmental and suprasegmental features in Mandarin Chinese Yunxia Tong ab; Alexander L. Francis a; Jackson T. Gandour a a Department of Speech Language Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, ...

Abstract:This study aims at describing learners’ features of pronunciation in terms the suprasegmental aspects found Jokowi’s Specch Lonjakan kasus Covid-19 dan penerapan PPKM Mikro on 23rdof June 2021. Suprasegmental information applies to several different linguistic phenomena such as pitch, duration, and loudness. Speech not only conveys question word or sentence, but also meaning behind eve...

i In mis paper, preliminary considerations and some experimental results are presented in an effort to design Very Large Vocabulary Recognition (VLVR) systems. We will first consider the applicability of current recognition techniques and argue their inadequacy for VLVR. Possible alternate strategies will be explored and their potential usefulness statistically evaluated. Our results indicate t...

Intact phonological processing is crucial for successful literacy acquisition. While individuals with difficulties in reading and spelling (i.e., developmental dyslexia) are known to experience deficient phoneme discrimination (i.e., segmental phonology), findings concerning their prosodic processing (i.e., suprasegmental phonology) are controversial. Because there are no behavior-independent s...

This study examined the impact of Clear Pronunciation 2 software on teaching English suprasegmental features, focusing on stress, rhythm and intonation. In particular, the software covers five topics in relation to suprasegmental features including consonant cluster, word stress, connected speech, sentence stress and intonation. Seven Iranian EFL learners participated in this study. The study l...

Four experiments examined Dutch listeners' use of suprasegmental information in spoken-word recognition. Isolated syllables excised from minimal stress pairs such as VOORnaam/voorNAAM could be reliably assigned to their source words. In lexical decision, no priming was observed from one member of minimal stress pairs to the other, suggesting that the pairs' segmental ambiguity was removed by su...

This paper formalizes and tests two key assumptions of the concept of suprasegmental timing: segmental independence and suprasegmental mediation. Segmental independence holds that the duration of a suprasegmental unit such as a syllable or foot is only minimally dependent on its segments. Suprasegmental mediation states that the duration of a segment is determined by the duration of its suprase...