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Sentence Prosody and Register Variation in Arabic by Hellmuth, Sam

“…Diglossia in Arabic differs from bilingualism in functional differentiation and mode of acquisition of the two registers used by all speakers raised in an…”
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Review of Intonation in Romance, by Sónia Frota and Pilar Prieto (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press by Hellmuth, Sam

“…The edited volume, Intonation in Romance, comprises eleven chapters: nine content chapters summarise the results of detailed prosodic analysis of intonation…”
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Collaboration with local fieldworkers to support remote collection of high quality audio speech data by Almbark, Rana, Hellmuth, Sam, Brown, Georgina

“…In 2022 we planned speech data collection with speakers of Syrian and Jordanian dialects to inform an updated Syrian Arabic dialectology in response to…”
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Computational modelling of segmental and prosodic levels of analysis for capturing variation across Arabic dialects by Brown, Georgina, Hellmuth, Sam

“…•We perform automatic classification tasks on speech data from eight Arabic dialects.•A segmentally-informed automatic accent recognition system is used for…”
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Methods for investigation of L2 speech rhythm: Insights from the production of English speech rhythm by L2 Arabic learners by Algethami, Ghazi, Hellmuth, Sam

“…Rhythm metrics can detect second language development of target-like speech rhythm but interpretation of the results from metrics in learners’ speech is…”
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Individual profiles amidst a multiethnolect: Acoustic hetereogeneity in London English by Kerswill, Paul, Gibson, Andy, Sharma, Devyani, McCarthy, Kathleen, Passoni, Elisa, Hellmuth, Sam

“…Multicultural London English (MLE; Kerswill and Torgersen 2008; Cheshire et al., 2011) arose in working class areas of London around 30 years ago through…”
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Processing of Arabic diacritical marks: phonological-syntactic disambiguation of homographic verbs and visual crowding effects by Hermena, Ehab W, Drieghe, Denis, Hellmuth, Sam, Liversedge, Simon P

“…Diacritics convey vowel sounds in Arabic, allowing accurate word pronunciation. Mostly, modern Arabic is printed nondiacritized. Otherwise, diacritics appear…”
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F2 slope as a Perceptual Cue for the Front–Back Contrast in Standard Southern British English by Chládková, Kateřina, Hamann, Silke, Williams, Daniel, Hellmuth, Sam

“…Acoustic studies of several languages indicate that second-formant (F2) slopes in high vowels have opposing directions (independent of consonantal context):…”
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John J. McCarthy, Doing Optimality Theory: Applying theory to data. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xi+310 by Hellmuth, Sam

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Intonation in Romance by Hellmuth, Sam

“…Sónia Frota and Pilar Prieto (eds.). (2015). Intonation in Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.The edited volume, Intonation in Romance, comprises eleven…”
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McCarthyJohn J., Doing Optimality Theory: Applying theory to data. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xi+310 by Hellmuth, Sam

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Doing Optimality Theory: Applying Theory to Data by Hellmuth, Sam

“…In sum, this is an intensely practical book, full of concrete problem-solving advice, which should be well-thumbed by those learning and working within OT; due…”
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