"This is the happiest day of my life," said Kuerten, who enjoyed the rare privilege of delivering his victory speech in his native language, Portuguese.
Mr. Jain later turned the podium over to Jürgen Fitschen, the other co-executive, a German who gave a longer speech in his native language.
This was work for her, not Yeats, who had no ear for native speech, and had, in any case, somewhat to his annoyance, been born not into the Ascendancy but into the slightly upper middle class; he hated the bourgeoisie (his tormentor George Moore professed to wonder how he had come so to dislike his own kind).
The sounds of the native speech changed slowly.
The native speech resembles Welsh more than it does French.
While there are plenty of databases for many different languages, they usually contain only native speech data.
Actually, although the setting is indeed inspired by the area in which Dahl lived and wrote the book, the American actors will be cleaving to their native speech.
A visitor walking down Queen Street might also be pardoned for thinking that the pure vowels and guttural glottal-stops of the native speech sound more German or Dutch than English.
In the attend condition, the learning-related dynamics of words with native phonology was influenced by the average acquisition age of non-native languages: The later the learning of non-native languages had started, the more responsive the brain was to establish memory-traces (reflected by the response increase) to words with native speech sounds.
This phenomenon is called brain entrainment to speech, and supports native speech intelligibility4,5,6. Interestingly, entrainment also seems to take place during speech production, as the neural activity of a speaker correlates with the amplitude envelope of the sound of their own utterances7.
