Full- and partial- (orthographic or phonemic) repetition effects for Hebrew voweled and unvoweled words and nonwords were examined at Lags 0 and 15 between the first and the second presentations. For voweled words, phonemic and orthographic partial-repetition effects were equivalent at Lag 0, each about half the size of the full-repetition effect. At Lag 15, the full-repetition effect was reduc...

One of the major criticisms leveled at task-based language teaching (TBLT), despite its countless merits, is developing fluency at the cost of accuracy. The post-task stage affords a number of options to counteract this downside through task repetition and task recycling. These two options are considered to positively affect learners' oral performance in terms of fluency, accuracy, and complexi...

Repetition of a visual stimulus reduces the firing rate of macaque inferior temporal (IT) neurons. The neural mechanisms underlying this adaptation or repetition suppression are still unclear. In particular, we do not know how the IT circuit is affected by stimulus repetition. To address this, we measured local field potentials (LFPs) and multiunit spiking activity (MUA) simultaneously at 16 si...

repetition figure of speech is one of the aesthetic and technical aspects of the holy quran. there are stories of quran which are repeated in other surahs. the story of moses & pharaoh is one of the most frequent ones. this repetition occurs weather through bringing examples from the story which are in accordance with the situation or by quoting some parts of it. this repetition adds to the tec...

Speech parameters originating from voice source and vocal tract were analyzed to find acoustic correlates of dimensional descriptions of emotional states. To achieve this goal best, we adopted the Utsunomiya University Spoken Dialogue Database, which was designed for studies on paralinguistic information in expressive conversational speech. Analyses for four female and two male speakers showed:...

In this paper, we propose a method to predict the articulatory movements of phonemes that are difficult for a speaker to pronounce correctly because those phonemes are not seen in the native language of that speaker. When one wants to predict the articulatory movements of those unseen phonemes, since he/she has difficulty to generate those sounds, the conventional acoustic-to-articulatory mappi...

Any parent wishes an appropriate development for their children. One of the parents’ great concerns is the children's speech development; they are worried if their children are late to speak. The children’s speech development is influenced by physical and environmental factors. The causes of physical factors are related to the problem but the role of environmental factors is more complex becaus...