We investigated phonemic competence in production in three age groups of children - 7 and 8 years, 10 and 11 years, 12 and 13 years-using rhyme and phoneme monitoring. Participants were required to name target pictures silently while monitoring covert speech for the presence or absence of a rhyme or phoneme match. Performance in the verbal tasks was compared to a nonverbal control task in which...

This project will implement a version of the popular game Guitar Hero. The project will be composed of visual, audio, and interactive parts. The goal of the game is to be able to “play” the notes of a song chosen from a given list by pressing the appropriate buttons on the keyboard to match the ones on the screen. On the keyboard, keys F5-F12 will be used for the “notes” and Enter will substitu...

In this paper we focus on detecting Romanian words without rhymes, using knowledge about stressed vowels and syllabification. We also investigate quantitative aspects and the etymological origins of the Romanian words without rhymes.

In some tone languages, contour tones (pitch changes within a syllable) may be used contrastively. The phonological distribution of contour tones has been of much theoretical interest, as it sheds light on both the representation of tone (Woo 1969; Leben 1973; Goldsmith 1976; Bao 1990; Duanmu 1990, 1994a; Yip 1989, 1995) and the relation between phonetics and phonology (Duanmu 1994b; Gordon 199...

We investigate the use in Mandarin tone recognition of over two hundred possible local acoustic features based on pitch, overall intensity, and band-passed intensity in the rhyme of a syllable. Features involving pitch height are not as useful as one might expect, showing the need for phrase-level pitch height correction. The intensity contour is useful, particularly when rhyme-initial intensit...

Introduction: Frozen shoulder syndrome (FSS) is a common shoulder disease that causes pain and has progressive loss of shoulder motion. Codman's pendulum exercises are commonly prescribed after a shoulder injury to provide early joint mobilization, increase the flow of nutrients into the joint space, and decrease pain. This study aimed to compare the effect of Cadman's exercises and scapular rh...