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Speaker identification techniques are one of those most advanced modern technologies and there are many different systems had been developed, from methods that used to extract characteristics and classification. The appl...

In speaker identification, a forensic phonetician’s task often involves comparingvoices of two or more speakers and assessing their similarity, but also their typicality. For the latter, it is necessary to have backgro...

The so-called ‘mismatch’ is a factor which experts in the forensic voice comparison field encounter regularly. Therefore, we decided to explore to what extent the automatic-speaker-recognition system’s and the earw...

This study uses fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to investigate the brain activity in a set of cortical areas in the task of main idea identification, when the topic sentence was presented in first versus in ...

O contraste pro/pronome em orações coordenadas em português é aqui explorado de modo a distinguirem-se os procedimentos através dos quais formas pronominais sujeito são interpretadas em diferentes contextos sintát...

This paper presents a prototype man–machine dialogue system specifically designed for Arabic, addressing the growing need for voice-based interaction in under-resourced linguistic contexts. Arabic poses particular chal...

INTRODUCTION. The study is devoted to the description of a as one of the effective modern methods of word research, its identification, perception in the linguistic consciousness of a native speaker and reflection of the...

La fluidez ha sido considerada como uno de los factores relevantes que interviene en la comprensión lectora. Actualmente se incluye en la fluidez, además de la velocidad y la precisión, la prosodia como uno de los com...

The present paper re-addresses metaphor based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. The metaphors selected pertain to political discourse, precisely Trump’s statements on differe...

Drawing on international pedagogical discourse on multilingual learning contexts, extensive research on second language acquisition and learning, and our previous research on Ukrainian refugee perspectives on primary sch...

Voice comparison in forensic phonetic casework requires the assessment of the similarity of the target voices. This task may be impeded by the speakers’ attempt to disguise their voice. The objective of this study is t...

Embodied cognition research on Parkinson's disease (PD) points to disruptions of frontostriatal language functions as sensitive targets for clinical assessment. However, no existing approach has been tested for crossling...