No transtorno fonológico podem ocorrer concomitantemente alterações fonéticas e fonológicas, que comprometem a articulação e o conhecimento internalizado do sistema de sons da língua. As alterações fonéticas podem acontecer também em crianças com desenvolvimento típico de linguagem. Várias pesquisas têm mostrado a importância de se utilizar técnicas objetivas durante o diagnóstico bem como da aplicação de índices de gravidade. O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar a ocorrência de distorções de fala e aplicar e comparar os índices de gravidade em crianças entre cinco e sete anos de idade com e sem transtorno fonológico. Para isso, foram avaliadas 30 crianças com desenvolvimento típico de linguagem (GSTF) e 15 crianças com transtorno fonológico (GTF). Foram aplicadas provas experimentais de fonologia, fala espontânea e avaliação da motricidade orofacial e calculados os índices PCC, PCC-R, PDI, RDI e ACI nas provas de fonologia e fala espontânea. Se detectada qualquer tipo de distorção em quaisquer umas das provas de fonologia nos sons [s], [z], [?], [?], [l], [?] e [?] era aplicada a prova para verificação específica de distorção, além da palatografia e linguografia.Os resultados apontaram que no GSTF, 23,3% das crianças apresentou distorção nas provas de fonologia e fala espontânea nos sons [s], [z], [?] e [l]; no GFT 20% das crianças apresentou distorção nas provas de fonologia e fala espontânea nos sons [s], [z] e [?]; não houve evidências de diferença significativa entre o número de sujeitos que apresentaram distorção no GSTF e GTF. Houve diferença significante apenas nas provas de imitação e fala espontânea na faixa etária de sete anos, com maior ocorrência de distorção do [s] no grupo GTF do que no GSTF. Apenas o GTF apresentou distorção no [?], parece que a distorção deste som está mais relacionada ao transtorno fonológico. A análise da palatografia confirmou a análise perceptiva, oferecendo a vantagem de mostrar o local exato da produção. No GSTF e no GTF, os sujeitos que não apresentaram distorção obtiveram todos os índices melhores do que os sujeitos com distorção. O índice ACI indicou que o GSTF sem distorção teve o melhor desempenho, mostrando-se adequado para medir a competência articulatória . / Phonological and phonetic alterations can occur together in the phonological disorder compromising the articulation and the internal knowledge of the speech sounds of a language. Phonetic alterations can occur in children with typical phonological development. Several researches have shown the importance of the use of objective techniques during both the diagnosis of disorder and application of severity indexes. The aim of this research is to identify the occurrence of distortions in the speech. Also, to apply and compare severity indexes in children between five and seven years old with and without phonological disorders. 30 children with typical language development (GSTF) and 15 phonologically-disordered children (GTF) were assessed. Experimental test of Phonology (nomeation, imitation and continuous speech) and the oral motricity were applied. The PCC, PPC-R, PDI, RDI and ACI indexes were calculated based on Phonology tests. If any kind of distortion as detected in any Phonology test related to the sounds [s], [z], [?], [?], [l], [?] and [?], the specific test to verify distortion was used, for confirmation and perceptual classification of kind distortion, besides the palatography and tongue graph. The results pointed that in the GSTF, 23,3% of the children presented distortion in the Phonology tests and continuous speech in the [s], [z] and [?] sounds; there was no evidence of statistic differences between number of subjects that presented distortion in the GSTF and in the GTF. There was significant difference only in the imitation and continuous speech tests in the age range of seven years, with more occurrence of [s] distortion in the GTF compared to the GSTF. Only the GTF presented [] distortions. It seems that this distortion is more related to the phonological disorder. The palatography and the tongue graph confirmed the perceptive analysis, offering the advantage of showing the exact place of production. All subjects from the GSTF and GTF that did not present distortions had better severity indexes compared to the subjects that presented it. The ACI index indicated that the GSTF without distortion had better performance, showing that it is adequate to measure articulatory competence.

Com o objetivo de contribuir para a caracterização da variedade falada no noroeste paulista, bem como de auxiliar na compreensão da diversidade linguística encontrada no Brasil, descrevemos as características fonético-fonológicas da variedade falada em São José do Rio Preto, utilizando o referecial teórico-metodológico da Sociolingüística Laboviana e da Dialetologia. Analisaremos doze amostras de fala do banco de dados do Projeto Iboruna, selecionadas segundo os fatores sociais: sexo, faixa etária e grau de escolaridade. Descreveremos as vogais orais e nasais, as realizações dos fonemas /s/, /l/, /´/, /r/ e /d/ e /t/ antes de [i] e outros fenômenos linguísticos. Fizemos também referência a obras que tratam da descrição de outras variedades do português com o objetivo de observar se as realizações encontradas em São José do Rio Preto são conservadoras ou inovadoras, se são peculiaridades de lá, ou se também são encontradas em outras variedades. Concluímos que a variedade estudada apresenta características fonético-fonológicas que são comuns em outras comunidades lusófonas e que, se partirmos do português europeu para se estabelecer comparações com a variedade estudada, esta apresenta algumas características conservadoras. / Aiming to contribute to the characterization of the variety spoken in the northwestern region of São Paulo, as well as help understanding the linguistic diversity found in Brazil, the phonetic-phonological features of the variety spoken in São José do Rio Preto were described, using the theoretical and methodological references of the Labovian Sociolinguistics and the Dialectology. Twelve samples of speech from Project Iboruna database, selected according to the following social factors: gender, age and education level will be analyzed. The oral and nasal vowels, the pronunciation of the phonemes /s/, /l/, /´/, /r/ and /d/ and /t/ before [i], and other linguistic phenomena were analyzed. The literature on the description of other varieties of Portuguese language was referred in order to observe if the variants found in São José do Rio Preto are conservative or innovative, if they are peculiarities from there, or whether they are found in other varieties. The conclusion was that the analyzed variety presents phonetic-phonological features that are common in other lusophone communities, and if compared to the European Portuguese, it has some conservative features.

No transtorno fonológico podem ocorrer concomitantemente alterações fonéticas e fonológicas, que comprometem a articulação e o conhecimento internalizado do sistema de sons da língua. As alterações fonéticas podem acontecer também em crianças com desenvolvimento típico de linguagem. Várias pesquisas têm mostrado a importância de se utilizar técnicas objetivas durante o diagnóstico bem como da aplicação de índices de gravidade. O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar a ocorrência de distorções de fala e aplicar e comparar os índices de gravidade em crianças entre cinco e sete anos de idade com e sem transtorno fonológico. Para isso, foram avaliadas 30 crianças com desenvolvimento típico de linguagem (GSTF) e 15 crianças com transtorno fonológico (GTF). Foram aplicadas provas experimentais de fonologia, fala espontânea e avaliação da motricidade orofacial e calculados os índices PCC, PCC-R, PDI, RDI e ACI nas provas de fonologia e fala espontânea. Se detectada qualquer tipo de distorção em quaisquer umas das provas de fonologia nos sons [s], [z], [?], [?], [l], [?] e [?] era aplicada a prova para verificação específica de distorção, além da palatografia e linguografia.Os resultados apontaram que no GSTF, 23,3% das crianças apresentou distorção nas provas de fonologia e fala espontânea nos sons [s], [z], [?] e [l]; no GFT 20% das crianças apresentou distorção nas provas de fonologia e fala espontânea nos sons [s], [z] e [?]; não houve evidências de diferença significativa entre o número de sujeitos que apresentaram distorção no GSTF e GTF. Houve diferença significante apenas nas provas de imitação e fala espontânea na faixa etária de sete anos, com maior ocorrência de distorção do [s] no grupo GTF do que no GSTF. Apenas o GTF apresentou distorção no [?], parece que a distorção deste som está mais relacionada ao transtorno fonológico. A análise da palatografia confirmou a análise perceptiva, oferecendo a vantagem de mostrar o local exato da produção. No GSTF e no GTF, os sujeitos que não apresentaram distorção obtiveram todos os índices melhores do que os sujeitos com distorção. O índice ACI indicou que o GSTF sem distorção teve o melhor desempenho, mostrando-se adequado para medir a competência articulatória . / Phonological and phonetic alterations can occur together in the phonological disorder compromising the articulation and the internal knowledge of the speech sounds of a language. Phonetic alterations can occur in children with typical phonological development. Several researches have shown the importance of the use of objective techniques during both the diagnosis of disorder and application of severity indexes. The aim of this research is to identify the occurrence of distortions in the speech. Also, to apply and compare severity indexes in children between five and seven years old with and without phonological disorders. 30 children with typical language development (GSTF) and 15 phonologically-disordered children (GTF) were assessed. Experimental test of Phonology (nomeation, imitation and continuous speech) and the oral motricity were applied. The PCC, PPC-R, PDI, RDI and ACI indexes were calculated based on Phonology tests. If any kind of distortion as detected in any Phonology test related to the sounds [s], [z], [?], [?], [l], [?] and [?], the specific test to verify distortion was used, for confirmation and perceptual classification of kind distortion, besides the palatography and tongue graph. The results pointed that in the GSTF, 23,3% of the children presented distortion in the Phonology tests and continuous speech in the [s], [z] and [?] sounds; there was no evidence of statistic differences between number of subjects that presented distortion in the GSTF and in the GTF. There was significant difference only in the imitation and continuous speech tests in the age range of seven years, with more occurrence of [s] distortion in the GTF compared to the GSTF. Only the GTF presented [] distortions. It seems that this distortion is more related to the phonological disorder. The palatography and the tongue graph confirmed the perceptive analysis, offering the advantage of showing the exact place of production. All subjects from the GSTF and GTF that did not present distortions had better severity indexes compared to the subjects that presented it. The ACI index indicated that the GSTF without distortion had better performance, showing that it is adequate to measure articulatory competence.

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<p>This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project.</p><p>The study is explorative in character. Quantity structures in Swedish dialects and their geographical distribution, as described in the dialectological literature, are compared to the results of a data-driven categorisation (cluster analysis). The results reveal an overall good correspondence of the data driven and the traditional categorisation, although with some deviations in the detail.</p><p>The study is divided into two parts. The first part lays the foundation for the data-driven categorisation, which is then described in the second part. First, the phonology and phonetics of quantity in Swedish are described in terms of durational distinctions and vocalic quality differences that typically accompany the durational differences. Preaspiration, which appears to be a normative feature in some dialects, is covered as well. An overview of the historical development of the Swedish quantity system is provided, with special emphasis on a phonological interpretation of quantity changes. Thereafter, dialectological evidence is combined with phonological and typological considerations to develop a categorisation of Swedish dialects.</p><p>The second part explains the methodology of cluster analysis and applies this method to vowel and consonant durations from one contrastive word pair, in order to obtain an alternative dialect categorisation. Analyses of vowel quality and preaspiration are performed in addition to the durational analyses. Hypotheses derived from the cluster analysis are then tested on one additional word pair recorded in 75 locations and on three additional word pairs recorded in four locations.</p><p>The general pattern emerging from the cluster analysis is a categorisation of the dialects into three main types, a Finland-Swedish, a Northern and a Southern type. This categorisation shows a good geographical agreement with the categorisation that is derived from the analysis of the dialectological literature. Therefore, the durational patterns of the three types are interpreted as reflections of three different phonological systems: 4-way systems with vocalic and consonantal quantity, 3-way systems with vocalic quantity and with consonantal quantity only after short vowels, and 2-way systems with complementary quantity. From the historical perspective, the 4-way system constitutes the most conservative and the 2-way system the most recently developed system.</p><p>Finally, it is argued that the historical development is one of the factors behind occasional mismatches between the data-driven and the dialectological categorisation. Data from one of the dialects, which has recently abandoned a 4-way system but has obviously retained the durational properties of the older system, is used as an example to illustrate this historical hypothesis.</p>

This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project. The study is explorative in character. Quantity structures in Swedish dialects and their geographical distribution, as described in the dialectological literature, are compared to the results of a data-driven categorisation (cluster analysis). The results reveal an overall good correspondence of the data driven and the traditional categorisation, although with some deviations in the detail. The study is divided into two parts. The first part lays the foundation for the data-driven categorisation, which is then described in the second part. First, the phonology and phonetics of quantity in Swedish are described in terms of durational distinctions and vocalic quality differences that typically accompany the durational differences. Preaspiration, which appears to be a normative feature in some dialects, is covered as well. An overview of the historical development of the Swedish quantity system is provided, with special emphasis on a phonological interpretation of quantity changes. Thereafter, dialectological evidence is combined with phonological and typological considerations to develop a categorisation of Swedish dialects. The second part explains the methodology of cluster analysis and applies this method to vowel and consonant durations from one contrastive word pair, in order to obtain an alternative dialect categorisation. Analyses of vowel quality and preaspiration are performed in addition to the durational analyses. Hypotheses derived from the cluster analysis are then tested on one additional word pair recorded in 75 locations and on three additional word pairs recorded in four locations. The general pattern emerging from the cluster analysis is a categorisation of the dialects into three main types, a Finland-Swedish, a Northern and a Southern type. This categorisation shows a good geographical agreement with the categorisation that is derived from the analysis of the dialectological literature. Therefore, the durational patterns of the three types are interpreted as reflections of three different phonological systems: 4-way systems with vocalic and consonantal quantity, 3-way systems with vocalic quantity and with consonantal quantity only after short vowels, and 2-way systems with complementary quantity. From the historical perspective, the 4-way system constitutes the most conservative and the 2-way system the most recently developed system. Finally, it is argued that the historical development is one of the factors behind occasional mismatches between the data-driven and the dialectological categorisation. Data from one of the dialects, which has recently abandoned a 4-way system but has obviously retained the durational properties of the older system, is used as an example to illustrate this historical hypothesis.

While text Information Retrieval applications often focus on extracting semantic features to identify the topic of a document, and Music Information Research tends to deal with melodic, timbral or meta-tagged data of songs, useful information can be gained from surface-level features of musical texts as well. This is especially true for texts such as song lyrics and poetry, in which the sound and structure of the words is important. These types of lyrical verse usually contain regular and repetitive patterns, like the rhymes in rap lyrics or the meter in metrical poetry. The existence of such patterns is not always categorical, as there may be a degree to which they appear or apply in any sample of text. For example, rhymes in hip hop are often imperfect and vary in the degree to which their constituent parts differ. Although a definitive decision as to the existence of any such feature cannot always be made, large corpora of known examples can be used to train probabilistic models enumerating the likelihood of their appearance. In this thesis, we apply likelihood-based methods to identify and characterize patterns in lyrical verse. We use a probabilistic model of mishearing in music to resolve misheard lyric search queries. We then apply a probabilistic model of rhyme to detect imperfect and internal rhymes in rap lyrics and quantitatively characterize rappers' styles in their use. Finally, we compute likelihoods of prosodic stress in words to perform automated scansion of poetry and compare poets' usage of and adherence to meter. In these applications, we find that likelihood-based methods outperform simpler, rule-based models at finding and quantifying lyrical features in text.

<p>Although the British and the Americans use the same language, i.e. English, the differences in vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling between these two varieties doubtlessly exist. However, this paper deals particularly with the spelling differences between British English and American English since spelling seems to cause confusion and problems to the learners of English the most. The American spelling is considered to be informal; therefore, the essay focuses on the standard British English spelling of words through, night, light, and high and their equivalents in American English, i.e. thru, nite, lite, and hi. This study investigates how extensively the British and the Americans use the standard and the informal spelling of these words in different written sources such as newspapers, magazines, leaflets and advertisements, and books. In addition, the collocations of these particular words are investigated. In order to do this quantitative research, the Collins Cobuild corpus material was searched and analyzed. The results of this study reveal that the informal American spelling of these four words appears in British texts more often than in American texts. However, the informal spelling tends to appear in non-American sources when speaking about America or American cultural phenomena.</p>

對以英語為外語學習的台灣學生而言，傳統的發音輔助系統在國中階段是以K.K.音標為主，而目前國小階段的發音輔助系統是藉由字母拼讀法，本研究旨在探討字母拼讀法與K.K.音標對台灣六年級學生在單字發音效益比較之研究。 研究對象為台北市一所公立小學六年級二個班共62位學生，兩班隨機分成實驗組與控制組，實驗組施予K.K.音標教學，而控制組則施以字母拼讀法教學。實驗研究共進行一學期，實驗前給予兩組學生單字發音的口試測驗，實驗後再進行同一份口試測驗，並採用三種統計方法進行資料分析:敘述性統計、獨立樣本T 檢定與卡方檢定。資料分析結果顯示K.K.音標與字母拼讀法教學在單字發音上有顯著差異，受試者對於K.K.音標教學在整體單字發音的表現較有成效；在單音節與多音節以及規則與不規則字的發音上也較字母拼讀法教學有成效。此外，二組受試者在子音、母音、重音與音節的錯誤率比較上，僅在母音上呈現顯著差異，受試者輔以字母拼讀法教學在母音的錯誤率較K.K.音標教學高，而錯誤似乎是受到字母拼讀法規則類化的影響。 最後，由此研究結果提出對國小六年級學生在單字發音教學的建議，期盼對國小六年級英語教師與學生在單字發音的教與學上有所助益。 / To facilitate word pronunciation for EFL students in Taiwan, K.K. phonetic symbols have been used in junior high schools for decades whereas phonics has been introduced in elementary schools. The purpose of the study is to examine which method, phonics or K.K. phonetic symbols, is more effective in teaching word pronunciation for sixth graders who have had three years of formal English education at public schools. The participants in this study were two classes of 62 sixth graders in Taipei city. Two classes were randomly assigned to the experimental group who received the instruction of K.K. phonetic symbols for a semester while the control group who received the instruction of phonics. The oral task of students’ production abilities on word pronunciation designed by the researcher was used as the instrument to collect the data. The data collected was analyzed by three statistical methods, including descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test and chi-square. The results showed that students receiving K.K. phonetic symbols instruction outperformed those who received phonics instruction on overall, monosyllabic, polysyllabic, regular and irregular word pronunciation. Additionally, it is found that students with the instruction of phonics made more vowel errors. The segmental errors in the phonics group may result from the effect of phonics generalization. Based on the findings, this study proposes some pedagogical implications for sixth grade English teachers to better facilitate students’ learning on English word pronunciation.

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