Essays Tagged: "Phoneme"

To what extent do survival strategies help counter worker alienation.

l strategies and alienation. However, my main arguments will not be centred around these individual phoneme, but whether or not they interact and whether workers use survival strategies to help cope w ...

(13 pages) 116 0 4.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

How Speech Recognition Works.

has dropped to as low as 1-2%, although this can vary greatly between speakers. So how is this done?PhonemesPhonemes are best described as linguistic units. They are the sounds that group together to ... s linguistic units. They are the sounds that group together to form our words, although quite how a phoneme converts into sound depends on many factors including the surrounding phonemes, speaker acce ...

(3 pages) 64 1 3.6 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

The building blocks of language

ding blocks provide structure and produce language. To produce language, one must build words using phonemes and morphemes, and then string those words into sentences using the rules of grammar; synta ... words into sentences using the rules of grammar; syntax and semantics.The first building block is a phoneme. They are the most basic unit of speech; an individual sound. All languages use phonemes. En ...

(2 pages) 80 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Communication

They provide structure andalso make up language. To make language, a person must build words using phonemesand morphemes. After that, he or she must then use these words in sentences using therules o ... ds in sentences using therules of grammar. The first of the building blocks of language is a phoneme. These are the basicunits of speech and they help produce sound. All languages use phonemes ...

(1 pages) 47 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

"The reading aloud system consists of a lexical (dictionary-lookup) and a non-lexical (rule-based) procedure." Evaluate this claim.

iation of unfamiliar words and non-words in a way that translates letters or groups of letters into phonemes by the application of rules where the grapheme-phoneme connection breaks the letters down ( ... ularity. This can best be explained due to competition between the two routes, whereby the grapheme-phoneme correspondence is trying to activate the regular phoneme for each letter, while the lexical ...

(10 pages) 36 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Experimental study on Oriya Retroflex nasal for Speech Synthesis.

ABSTRACT:This study intends to examine the allophonic characteristics of the Oriya retroflex nasal phoneme when it occurs in contrastive and complementary distribution in speech. The main thrust is t ... some extent may be negligible, and (2) allophonic variations, which are contextually significant. A Phoneme, which is an abstract unit comprising a bundle of features, is realized by the actual pronun ...

(17 pages) 59 0 4.6 Aug/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Subfields of Linguistics

identity, rank). We can distinguish the speaker from his speaking (e.g., the Scottish pronounce the phoneme /r/ in words like car). Other sociolinguists focus on what happens when speakers of differen ... ith the production and understanding of language and to determine where the components of language (phonemes, morphemes, and structure or syntax) are stored.

(2 pages) 67 0 4.4 Jan/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Comorbidity Between Reading Disability and ADHD

translate a string of letters into the resultant sounds. Also, studies have shown that a deficit in phoneme assessment (PA) and other phonological processing account for the majority of cases of those ... icited by difficulties reading…" (159). In this study, measures of executive functioning and phoneme awareness were taken to evaluate those with RD and ADHD. The researchers hypothesized that " ...

(5 pages) 25 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Phonological Awareness

simple, /sim/ and /ple/), onset and rime (e. g., in the word broom, /br/ and /oom/), and individual phonemes (e.g., in the word hamper, /h/, /a/, /m/, /p/, /er/). Manipulating sounds includes deleting ... c awareness. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made up of individual sounds or phonemes and the ability to manipulate these phonemes either by segmenting, blending, or changing in ...

(21 pages) 13 0 0.0 Nov/2011

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies