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van de Velde, Daan J.; Frijns, Johan H. M.; Beers, Mieke; van Heuven, Vincent J.; Levelt, Claartje C.; Briaire, Jeroen; Schiller, Niels O. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Relative to normally hearing (NH) peers, the speech of children with cochlear implants (CIs) has been found to have deviations such as a high fundamental frequency, elevated jitter and shimmer, and inadequate intonation. However, two important dimensions of prosody (temporal and spectral) have not been systematically investigated. Given…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Gender Differences, Hearing Impairments
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Pinget, Anne-France; Bosker, Hans Rutger; Quené, Hugo; de Jong, Nivja H. – Language Testing, 2014
Oral fluency and foreign accent distinguish L2 from L1 speech production. In language testing practices, both fluency and accent are usually assessed by raters. This study investigates what exactly native raters of fluency and accent take into account when judging L2. Our aim is to explore the relationship between objectively measured temporal,…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Language Fluency, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning
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de Vos, Connie; van der Kooij, Els; Crasborn, Onno – Language and Speech, 2009
The eyebrows are used as conversational signals in face-to-face spoken interaction (Ekman, 1979). In Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), the eyebrows are typically furrowed in content questions, and raised in polar questions (Coerts, 1992). On the other hand, these eyebrow positions are also associated with anger and surprise, respectively, in…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Nonverbal Communication, Suprasegmentals, Psychological Patterns