Subtitling strategies of Singlish particles and their effects on foreign audiences' comprehension: Ah Boys to Men series as a case study by Chia, Li Fang

“…The survey found that most of the participants were able to accurately interpret their implied meanings and were reported to have relied mostly on the speaker’s tone, body language and facial expressions as cues. …”
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Effects of combination of linguistic and musical pitch experience on subcortical pitch encoding by Maggu, Akshay Raj, Wong, Patrick C. M., Antoniou, Mark, Bones, Oliver, Liu, Hanjun, Wong, Francis C. K.

“…We compared musicians and non-musicians who were native speakers of a tone language on subcortical encoding of linguistic and musical pitch. …”
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Detecting voice disguise from speech variability : analysis of three glottal and vocal tract measures by Amin, Talal B., German, James S., Marziliano, Pina

“…The deliberate attempt by speakers to conceal their identity (voice disguise) presents a challenge for forensics and for automated speaker identification systems. …”
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The influence of L1 Tibetan and L2 Chinese on Tibetan university students' L3 English listening and speaking: an exploratory analysis by Weber, J

“…The study therefore investigates the impact of L1 Tibetan and L2 Mandarin on the acquisition of three L3 English phonemes (/v/, /f/, and /k/) by 34 Tibetan speakers, using a combination of production and perception tasks to compare the trilingual group’s accuracy on these three phonemes with that of a control group of 34 monolingual English speakers in order to determine sources of crosslinguistic influence. …”

A FPGA-based ultrasonic voice detection platform for whisper to voice reconstruction by Fan, Gaofeng

“…The frequency range chosen for the ultrasound (14-21 KHz) is predominantly unnoticeable for most adults while it is compatible with a large number of standard microphones/speakers (thus not requiring specialized acoustic equipment). …”
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Hayu typology and verbal morphology by Michailovsky, Boyd

“…Hayu is a Tibeto-Burman language with probably less than 500 speakers, all of whom speak Nepali, an Indo-Aryan language.…”
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Navigating cognitive success (and failure): Cicero, Lucullus 66 by Reinhardt, T

“…The Ciceronian corpus of philosophical works features on a number of occasions first-person speakers who explain how they live their Academic scepticism, whose hallmark was the rejection of certain knowledge. …”

Translation, adaptation and validation of an epilepsy screening instrument in two Ghanaian languages by Darkwa, EK, Asiamah, S, Awini, E, Sottie, C, Godi, A, Williams, JE, Akpalu, A, Cross, JH, Sander, JW, Sen, A, Newton, CR, Danso-Appiah, A, Adjei, P

“…Results: One hundred and forty Dangme speakers (70 cases and 70 controls) and 100 Asante Twi speakers (50 cases and 50 controls) were recruited. …”

A sketch grammar of Singapore Foochow by Thang, Marcus Guo Ping

“…It is by no means a fully comprehensive description of Foochow though through inductively analysing mainly data gathered by recording native speakers of the language, the author hopes to have this paper as a springboard to further research into this dying language. …”
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Notes on Paha Buyang by Li, Jinfang, Luo, Yongxian

“…This paper is an outline of some of the major features of the phonology and grammar of a dialect of the Buyang language, a Tai-Kadai language with roughly 2000 speakers spread over the border area of Yunnan and Guangxi Provinces in China, and northern Vietnam and Laos. …”
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Speech emotion recognition on smart computer : can you tell the mood ? by Shao, Qing

“…Speech emotion recognition is a technology, which could recognize the emotion state of speakers based on the speech signals. The development of a speech emotion recognition system is demonstrated in this project. …”
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Just kidding? Two roles for the concept of joking in political speech by Walker, Z

“…First, I discuss how claiming to have been joking can provide speakers with a powerful form of deniability. I argue that the aesthetic dimension of jokes makes such a denial especially well placed to undermine both a hearer's evidence for an utterance having been sincere, and, separately, their belief that it was sincere—I call the latter ‘aesthetic gaslighting’. …”

Collection and annotation of Malay conversational speech corpus by Chong, Tze Yuang, Xiao, Xiong, Tan, Tien-Ping, Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…The conversation is recorded from both close-talk and telephone channels, and both speakers' utterances are kept in separate tracks. Besides the word transcription, we also annotate linguistics phenomena such as fillers and disfluencies. …”
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Not Function but Function Conquered: Against a Functionalist Theory of Directives by Hill, John

“…Attitudinal theories of speech acts try to explain what it is to perform a directive in terms of a speaker’s beliefs, desires, and intentions. Nonattitudinal theories of speech acts try to explain directives in terms of something else. …”
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Inverse and pseudo-inverse prefixes in Kiranti languages: evidence from Belhare, Athpare, and Dungmali by Ebert, Karen H.

“…Although the number of speakers probably amounts to not more than 600 for Belhare and 2000 for Athpare. both languages are still regularly spoken in the villages. …”
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A model of intonational phonology of Singapore Malay by Diyana Hamzah

“…Using data drawn from a production experiment involving 24 Singaporean Malay speakers producing targeted sentences to wh-questions, this study analyzed acoustic measurements of suprasegmental features, including F0, duration and intensity. …”
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CET-4 Cloze passage personalized learning by Thoo, Emilene Shu Ping

“…The English language is vastly used in the world, with an estimated 360 million speakers. However, it is not a native language in every country. …”
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The differential substitution of dental fricatives : an anatomical perspective by Lin, Jingmin

“…Linguistic data was preprocessed in Praat, from which patterns of dental fricative productions across various L2 English speakers were identified, and logistic regression was employed to test the relationship between the anatomical variables and the general success in producing a dental fricative. …”
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Investigating the neural substrates of Chinese character processing by Wu, Chiao-Yi

“…While the lateralization of the inferior frontal gyrus seemed to be universal across speakers of different languages, spatial heterogeneity in language dominance was observed in the sub-network especially in the left-handers. …”
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21F.405 Germany Today: Intensive Study of German Language & Culture, January IAP 2005 by Crocker, Ellen

“…Activities include: oral presentations, group discussions, guest lectures, and interviews with German speakers. No listeners.…”
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