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Open access spoken language corpora from >50 non-WEIRD languages for phonetics, linguistics, and cognitive science https://doreco.huma-num.fr/

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DoReCo @doreco.bsky.social · Jul 22

/va/ and /va/ are not homophonous: New study shows durational differences between—presumably—homophonous forms in Amazonian Bora, based partially on DoReCo time-alignment: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Durational differences between homophonous va affixes and non-morphemic va in Bora (Northwest Amazon)

Acoustic differences between homophonous morphemes raise concerns for mainstream models of language production. But evidence for such differences so far comes a

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DoReCo @doreco.bsky.social · Dec 18

Fascinating new study on intonation units, with groundbreaking cross-linguistic breadth, using mostly DoReCo data

Ayelet Landau @ayeletlandau.bsky.social · Dec 4

Excited to inaugurate my bluesky presence with this exciting preprint! Lead by the one and only Maya Inbar and together w Eitan Grossman we investigated temporal structure of prosodic units in over forty languages. Check out what we found!

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A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low frequency rhythms and balance cross-linguistic syllable rate variability

Intonation units (IUs) are a universal building-block of human speech. They are found cross-linguistically and are tied to important language functions such as the pacing of information in discourse a...

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DoReCo @doreco.bsky.social · Dec 13

Big thanks to @laboratoireddl.bsky.social also for the excellent collaboration on the technical side of the DoReCo database!

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DoReCo @doreco.bsky.social · Dec 12

Kicking of DoReCo's Bluesky presence with a bang: DoReCo 2.0 was published today, featuring open-access, time-aligned spoken corpora on, by now, 53 language, ca. 7,000 words each, with morpheme glosses for 38 of them. Check it out at doreco.huma-num.fr

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