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Jul 17, 2024 · Beyond phonology, the concept has been applied to different kinds of minimal pairs, prominently syntactic minimal pairs, which have been used, for example, in language acquisition research [10, 20]. Similarly, minimal pair data has been used to judge the linguistic ability of machine and deep learning systems (see, e.g., [27, 48]). Our goal is ...
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Jul 17, 2024 · As reading Chinese characters requires a totally different transformation process compared to reading English words, that is, a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion rules versus the orthography-to-phonology transformation . Considering the semantic representation of language comprehension may be influenced by mental imagery, this research designed a ...
18 hours ago · Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English. For over a century, there has been argument over such questions as the definition of RP, whether it is geographically neutral, how many speakers there are, the nature and classification of its sub-varieties, how appropriate a choice it is as a standard, and how ...
18 hours ago · A distinguishing feature of Aramaic phonology (and that of Semitic languages in general) is the presence of "emphatic" consonants. These are consonants that are pronounced with the root of the tongue retracted, with varying degrees of pharyngealization and velarization. Using their alphabetic names, these emphatics are:
18 hours ago · Teaching English as a second language. v. t. e. Canadian English ( CanE, CE, en-CA) [5] encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada. According to the 2016 census, English was the first language of 19.4 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder spoke French (20.8%) or other languages (21.1%). [6]
18 hours ago · Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages ...
18 hours ago · The Austronesian languages ( / ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən /) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples ). [1] They are spoken by about 386 million people (4.9% of the world population) [citation ...
