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Occurrence and duration of pauses in relation to speech tempo and structural organization in two speech genres

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Šturm, Pavel

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Volín, Jan

2023

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Languages (Basel)

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Pauses act as important acoustic cues to prosodic phrase boundaries. However, the distribution and phonetic characteristics of pauses have not yet been fully described either cross-linguistically or in different genres and ...

Description of F0 contours with Legendre polynomials

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Svatošová, Michaela

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Volín, Jan

2022

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Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica

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2022

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Phonetic research has developed both impressionistic and more objective means of describing the basic units of intonation. The quantification involved in the approaches based on acoustic measurements provides more detail ...

Training of English prosody with acoustically modified voices

Trénování anglické prozodie pomocí akusticky modifikovaných hlasů

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Skarnitzl, Radek

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Bořil, Tomáš

2024

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Journal of Second Language Pronunciation

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The paper describes an innovative training of English phrasal prosody using participants' own speech as models, with their melodic and rhythmic patterns manipulated by means of PSOLA. After the training, the participants ...

Pausing and tempo variation as strategies in signalling poetic structure

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Šturm, Pavel

2025

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Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum

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Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica

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2025

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The study investigates how prosodic features reflect information structure and poetic organization during oral poetry performance. Specifically, we examined how repetition and structural position influence articulation ...

A contribution to the study of speech tempo and pause variability in two different speaking styles

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Veroňková, Jitka

2025

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Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum

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Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica

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Neuveden

(3/2025)

This study analyzes speech tempo and pause variability in two speaking styles: read-aloud news and semi-spontaneous self-introductions. Recordings of 10 non-professional Czech female speakers were examined for speech rate, ...

Acoustic analysis of vowels in Czech disyllabic words produced by L1-German speakers

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Chabrová, Anna

2025

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Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum

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Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica

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Neuveden

(3/2025)

T his study presents the results of an acoustic analysis of vowels produced by L1-German speakers learning Czech as a foreign language and provides a brief overview of vowel behaviour in Czech and German. The analysed ...

Exploring the phrase-internal changes in articulation rate: the LARometer tool and its applications

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Svatošová, Michaela

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Volín, Jan

2025

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Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum

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Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica

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2025

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The article introduces a method of normalising the inherent durational properties of phones (the LARometer), providing a relative measure of local articulation rate (LAR). It allows for the quantification of the communicatively ...

Timing the difference: A study of gemination in Dogri consonants

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Badyal, Pranav

2025

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Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum

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Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica

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2025

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This study examines the phonetic and phonological properties of singleton-geminate contrasts in Dogri within the context where the preceding vowel is short, i.e. in CVCV: word structures. Linear Mixed-Effects (LMER) ...

Interviews with Bernd Möbius and Zdena Palková on life in phonetics

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Šturm, Pavel

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Trouvain, Jürgen

2025

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Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum

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Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica

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2025

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The article features two in-depth interviews with long-time phoneticians, Bernd Möbius and Zdena Palková, who reflect on their careers and the changes they have witnessed in the field. Although their professional paths ...

Vowel duration in stressed and unstressed syllables in spontaneous English

Trvání samohlásek v přízvučných a nepřízvučných slabikách ve spontánní angličtině

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Bradíková, Nela

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Skarnitzl, Radek

2025

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Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum

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Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica

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2025

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Many phonetic "truths" are based on descriptions of controlled speech material, and verifying their validity in spontaneous productions is essential. The study investigates vowel duration as an acoustic correlate of stress ...

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