Research Fellow position; the application link led back here.
...address the mystery of how children learn to speak. We will test the hypothesis that children learn by using their own articulators as a learning device to experiment with different vocal manoeuvres until they sound sufficiently like adults...
Seems to be very interesting to me: I learned one of my L2s at the age of 20 in a similar. I'd think the same is true of my first two L2s as well.
You read thses:
Article A Syntactic-o-Semantic Study of English Resumptive Pronouns ...
Poster Coordination in English and Arabic
Article Nominal Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic With Referen...
Working remotely is not an obstacle, but it is critical to have proficient programming skills at the current stage of the research, as the learning process is simulated by computer programs. Once a full set of programs are written up and fully tested, they can be released to allow users to apply the them without having to do programming themselves.
You read thses:
Article A Syntactic-o-Semantic Study of English Resumptive Pronouns ...
Poster Coordination in English and Arabic
Article Nominal Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic With Referen...
Thanks. Yi Xu, your answer is very interesting, not because I have demonstrable programming skills at the present time, but because programming is something that I have long wanted to develop skills in for Linguistics, and for several reasons I think I would be a very quick self-learner. Are the programming skills referenced for computer languages such as Python, or for platforms and software facilities (such as Praat)? When I started college long ago, I was a Physics major but I switched to Linguistics.
Yi Xu, I'd think that you are referring to accessing the advanced programming functions of Praat. This snippet from the 2001 article (Speak and unSpeak with PRAAT RAAT) by the Praat tool creators is what I think you are referring to. I'd imagine that Praat Raat functionality has advanced greatly since 2001.
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3. Synthesizing speech with PRAAT RAAT PRAAT RAAT is not a text-to-speech system: you cannot type in an English sentence and have the program read it aloud. But you can generate many types of sounds with PRAAT RAAT. First, you can use formulas to generate simple sounds like sine waves or white noise from scratch, or to generate more complicated sounds from other sounds. Second, you can create sounds from other types of data, e.g. you can turn a pitch contour in a pulse train. Third, you can do source-®lter synthesis: from stylized pitch, intensity, and formant contours that you can build from scratch, you can create speech-like sounds. Fourth, you can perform articulatory synthesis: from a speci®cation of timed muscle contractions, Praat will compute the resulting sound. Fifth, you can create sounds from other sounds by a variety of ®ltering and enhancement techniques.
4. Manipulating speech with PRAAT RAAT A specialized manipulation window allows you to stylize and modify the pitch contour of an utterance.
In ®gure 3, the impatient-sounding question ``can you time it?'', with an original ®nal high rise, has been converted into a slightly whining command. The same window allows you to modify relative durations within this utterance. In this way, you can change the intonation and stress patterns of the utterance, which is useful when creating stimuli for research into the perception of prosody.
Ok...your '..current stage of the research, as the learning process is simulated by computer programs...' seems to mean that other platforms are being used, too.
Is R used?
As to the advanced programming functions of Praat, I am looking at that particular thing now. I am good with technology. I remember that in this month you made significant upgrades to your Praat-based tools available.
You have done your P in Linguistics.So you choose a topic for your research on Linguistics and related to ELT.
you have to choose a university and a guide to take up research
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