Phonological neighborhood density is known to influence lexical access, speech production as well as perception processes. Lexical competition is thought to be the central concept from which the neighborhood effect emanates: highly competitive neighborhoods are characterized by large degrees of phonemic co-activation, which can delay speech recognition and facilitate speech production. The present study investigates phonetic learning in English as a foreign language in relation to phonological neighborhood density and onset density to see whether dense or sparse neighborhoods are more conducive to the incorporation of novel phonetic detail. In addition, the effect of voice-contrasted minimal pairs (bat-pat) is explored. Results indicate that sparser neighborhoods with weaker lexical competition provide the most optimal phonological environment for phonetic learning. Moreover, novel phonetic details are incorporated faster in neighborhoods without minimal pairs. Results indicate that lexical competition plays a role in the dissemination of phonetic updates in the lexicon of foreign language learners.
Digitalized versions of Finnish folk tunes and their relevant details (notation, key, meter, place of collection, lyrics, collector), 8613 Finnish folk tunes (including part of the lyrics)
Titles of courses possibly relevant to the Digital Humanities for 2017-2018, manually gathered from course catalogues of most Czech state colleges, including the names of the teachers, department and school names, and the school-unique course IDs. All this information was publicly available in the individual course catalogues accessed from the official websites of the individual colleges.
The aim of the course is to introduce digital humanities and to describe various aspects of digital content processing.
The course consists of 10 lessons with video material and a PowerPoint presentation with the same content.
Every lesson contains a practical session – either a Jupyter Notebook to work in Python or a text file with a short description of the task. Most of the practical tasks consist of running the programme and analyse the results.
Although the course does not focus on programming, the code can be reused easily in individual projects.
Some experience in running Python code is desirable but not required.