We present SingaKids-Mandarin, a speech corpus of 255 Singaporean children aged 7 to 12 reading Mandarin Chinese, for a total of 125 hours of data (75 hours of speech) and 79,843 utterances. This corpus is phonetically balanced and detailed in human annotations, including phonetic transcriptions, lexical tone markings, and proficiency scoring at the utterance level. The reading scripts span a d...

This paper explores the nature of multiple sluicing in English, which has two or more remnant wh-phrases in clause edge position. At the beginning part of the paper we argue against Nishigauchi's (1998) and Lasnik's (2007) Gapping analysis of multiple sluicing, which says that two remnant wh-phrases each actually occupies the left and right edge of a clause, with the in-between string of words ...

This article reports on research which seeks to compare and measure the similarities between phonetic transcriptions in the analysis of relationships between varieties of English. It addresses the question of whether these varieties have been converging, diverging, or maintaining equilibrium as a result of endogenous and exogenous phonetic and phonological changes. We argue that it is only poss...

Focus is cross-linguistically associated with a number of different strategies, such as fronting, clefting, markers, and prosody. In some cases, the choice between one strategy or another determined by language-specific rules, while in others, two more strategies seem to be optional, thus, somehow “unpredictable”. this experimental study, we investigate syntactic employed object focusing Finnis...

This manuscript focuses on high-risk factors of metastatic disease in retinoblastoma and evaluation of the current treatments of retinoblastoma. Presence of histopathologic high-risk factors is associated with a higher risk of local recurrence and systemic metastasis. Currently, globe-sparing therapies, including systemic chemotherapy, intra-arterial chemoreduction, intravitreal chemotherapy, f...

The current study investigates effects of prosodic boundary and accent on lip opening and tongue movement of English /æ / in ‘add’, ‘had’ and ‘pad’. Boundary-induced strengthening is found in both V-initial (#VC) and C-initial (#CVC) words, although different kinematic measures are influenced by the segmental contexts. ‘Had’ patterns better with phonetically similar ‘add’ (sharing no constricti...

We compare formant frequency measurements between two authoritative tools (Praat and Snack), two large corpora (of face-to-face and telephone speech) and two French varieties (northern and southern). There are both an evaluation of formant tracking (as well as related filtering techniques) and an application to find out salient pronunciation traits. Despite differences between Praat and Snack w...