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View article: Analysis of the production in a connected speech task in patients with language impairment
Analysis of the production in a connected speech task in patients with language impairment Open
Background Neuropsychological language assessment batteries usually include connected speech tasks (e.g. the description of a picture). These tasks are assessed using different indicators that cover various levels of language: phonetic and…
View article: Semantic feature salience matters: new values of significance and relative weight for the Spanish feature norms for young and older adults
Semantic feature salience matters: new values of significance and relative weight for the Spanish feature norms for young and older adults Open
To determine the semantic importance of certain features has been a topic of interest for many semantic memory models. Diverse measures have been proposed in the last years. Semantic significance, the latest measure proposed by Montefinese…
View article: Acoustic characteristics of stressed and unstressed River Plate Spanish vowels: effects of speech style and consonantal context
Acoustic characteristics of stressed and unstressed River Plate Spanish vowels: effects of speech style and consonantal context Open
Produced vowels in a style focused on speech (isolated words reading) exhibit more peripheral formants and more spectral change than conversational vowels (text reading). This study explored the interaction between lexical stress and speec…
View article: Stress perception
Stress perception Open
This study assesses the claim that English late learners of Spanish do not perceive stress like native Spanish speakers, and that a short targeted stress perception training intervention during a study abroad Spanish language course has cl…
View article: English Speakers Learning Spanish: Perception Issues Regarding Vowels and Stress
English Speakers Learning Spanish: Perception Issues Regarding Vowels and Stress Open
The present pilot study examines both the perception of Spanish vowels /a, e, o/ in wordfinal position and the perception of final and penultimate stress of words ending in those vowels by beginner American English learners of Spanish.Seve…