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Does Posh English Sound Attractive?
Poshness refers to how much a British English speaker sounds upper class when they talk. Popular descriptions of posh English mostly focus on vocabulary, accent and phonology. This study tests the hypothesis that, as a social index, poshness is also manifested via phonetic properties known to encode vocal attractiveness. Specifically, posh English, because of its impression of being detached, a...
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Sound-symbolism is the nonarbitrary link between the sound and meaning of a word. Japanesespeaking children performed better in a verb generalization task when they were taught novel sound-symbolic verbs, created based on existing Japanese sound-symbolic words, than novel nonsound-symbolic verbs (Imai, Kita, Nagumo, & Okada, 2008). A question remained as to whether the Japanese children had pic...
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Dictionary look-up is the primary strategy for deriving pronunciations for input words in a text-to-speech (TTS) system. This strategy is accurate for dictionary words, but it is not complete: it is impossible to list exhaustively all input words. The proper treatment ofùnknown' words is currently an unsolved problem in TTS synthesis. There are many competing techniques for letter-to-sound conv...
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This study investigates the degree to which African Americans participate in the sound changes currently in progress in the dialect of Charleston, South Carolina. It is based on a sample of 60 African Americans native to the area, recorded during sociolinguistic interviews; spontaneous speech is supplemented with word list reading and minimal-pair tests. The speech of 20 of the informants has b...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 1890
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-15.374.224