DoReCo
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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/
/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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July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
/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...
Fascinating new study on intonation units, with groundbreaking cross-linguistic breadth, using mostly DoReCo data
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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December 18, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Fascinating new study on intonation units, with groundbreaking cross-linguistic breadth, using mostly DoReCo data
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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December 12, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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