prosodic cue
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprosodicandcue
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prosodic
adjective
uk/prəˈsɒd.ɪk/us/prəˈsɑː.dɪk/
literaturespecialized
relating to the pattern of rhythm and sound ...
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cue
noun[C]
uk/kjuː/us/kjuː/
a word or action in a play or film that is used as a signal by a performer to begin saying or ...
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She argued that the prolonged phonemic consonant length in the case of geminate production might be a salientprosodiccuewithin words.
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Howprosodiccuein motherese might assist language learning.
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One reason that learning to parse text may present a challenge is because, unlike speech, printed text conveys few direct prosodic cues.
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The words were read by a speech synthesizer in random order in immediate succession, without pauses or any other prosodic cues.
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The first thing to be noticed here is the amount of detail that was missing in the previous transcript - especially overlaps, gaps, and prosodic cues.
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In marking student responses as less than complete, or incorrect, teachers repeat student responses using a different set of prosodic cues.
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The main subject groupings, however, bore out the predictions that even highly proficient nonnative speakers would miss subtle prosodic cues.
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Thus, poor performance was likely due to lack of familiarity with the idioms, inability to recognize key prosodic cues, or both.
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An inability to process prosodic cues to determine unit size and kind during listening may impede successful speech perception.
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The second question pertains to whether the prosodic cues differentiating idiomatic and literal speech are universal.
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In addition to these utterance-level properties, there are also prosodic cues that are characteristic of a child-directed speaking style.
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No evidence was found that our results can be attributed to prosodic cues.
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In this sense, they provide prospective prosodic cues to the "big package" that is under way.
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How the prosodic cues in motherese might assist language learning.
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She looks at how prosodic cues can help children in the explicit segmentation of the input stream into words.
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The combination of these processes (in addition to weak prosodic cues) causes an indistinct syllable structure consisting of monotonous vocalic stretches.
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This preference suggests that infants are sensitive to configurations of prosodic cues that typically mark linguistic units.
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The third aim of this paper was to provide an assessment of the reliability of prosodic cues for syntactic development in early child speech.
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