Linking Variation in Perception and Production in Sound Change: Evidence from Dutch Obstruent Devoicing.

abstract：:A pair of speaking and listening studies investigated the prosody of sentences with temporary Object/Clause and Late/Early Closure ambiguities. Speakers reliably produced prosodic cues that allowed listeners to disambiguate Late/Early Closure sentences, but only infrequently produced prosody that disambiguated Object/...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Anderson C,Carlson K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a study of the temporal organization of lexical repair in spontaneous Dutch speech. It assesses the extent to which offset-to-repair duration and repair tempo can be predicted on the basis of offset timing, reparandum tempo and measures of the informativeness of the crucial lexical items in the rep...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Plug L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following our work on the relationship between eyebrow movements and the fundamental frequency of the voice, this article presents the results of a study on this phenomenon, and also on the temporal location of rapid eyebrow movements with respect to speaking turns during dialogue. We used an automatic movement-acquis...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Guaïtella I,Santi S,Lagrue B,Cavé C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of emotion in language is a key element of human interactions and a rich area for cognitive research. The present study examined reactions to words of five types: positive emotion (e.g., happiness), negative emotion (e.g., hatred), positive emotion-laden (e.g., blessing), negative emotion-laden (e.g., prison),...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Martin JM,Altarriba J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an artificial lexicon study designed to test the hypothesis that native English speakers experience interference from written input when acquiring surface voicing in German words. Native English speakers were exposed to German-like words (e.g., /ʃtɑit/ and /ʃtɑid/, both pronounced [ʃtɑit]) along with pictur...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Hayes-Harb R,Brown K,Smith BL

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of signed languages provides an opportunity to identify those characteristics of language that are universal and to investigate the effect of production modality (signed vs. spoken) on the grammar. Over time, American Sign Language (ASL) has accommodated itself to the production and perception requirements o...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Wilbur RB

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work investigates how vowel duration and vowel quality affect degrees of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. The effects of these two factors on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation have previously received little study. Phonological durational differences due to vowel length distinction were examined in Thai. It was hypothe...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Mok PP

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the structural priming paradigm, the present study explores predictions made by the implicit prosody hypothesis (IPH) by testing whether an implicit prosodic boundary generated from a silently read sentence influences attachment preference for a novel, subsequently read sentence. Results indicate that such primi...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Jun SA,Bishop J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research aims (1) to describe the acoustic manifestations of emphatic accent in French by examining similarities and differences between four speakers; and (2) to identify, amongst the acoustic measures, those which determine the perception of emphasis. In experiment 1, four speakers were asked to read twenty-fou...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Dahan D,Bernard JM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the use of multiple subphonemic differences distinguishing homophones in production and perception, through a case study focusing on the distinction between two polysemous senses of the English word "sorry" (apology vs. attention-seeking). An analysis of production data from voice actors revealed significan...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Martinuzzi C,Schertz J

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:DragonDictate is currently the only commercially available general-purpose, large-vocabulary speech recognition system. It uses discrete speech and is speaker-dependent, adapting to the speaker's voice and language model with every word. Its acoustic adaptability is based in a three-level phonology and a stochastic mo...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Mandel MA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although spontaneous speech occurs more frequently in most listeners' experience than read speech, laboratory studies of human speech recognition typically use carefully controlled materials read from a script. The phonological and prosodic characteristics of spontaneous and read speech differ considerably, however, w...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Mehta G,Cutler A

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of speakers to exaggerate speech sounds ("hyperarticulation") has led to the theory that the targets themselves must be hyperspace hyperarticulated. Johnson, Flemming, and Wright (1993) found that perceptual "best exemplar" choices for vowels were more speech extreme than listeners' own productions. Our fi...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Whalen DH,Magen HS,Pouplier M,Kang AM,Iskarous K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) word-order variations have demonstrated the human processing system's tendency to interpret a sentence-initial (case-) ambiguous argument as the subject of the clause ("subject preference"). The electroencephalogram study motivating the current report revealed earlier r...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Krebs J,Wilbur RB,Alday PM,Roehm D

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sound patterns in the speech of two Brazilian-Portuguese speaking children are compared with early production patterns in English-learning children as well as English and Brazilian-Portuguese (BP) characteristics. The relationship between production system effects and ambient language influences in the acquisition of ...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Teixeira ER,Davis BL

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many languages exhibit constraints on prosodic words, where lexical items must be composed of at least two moras of structure, or a binary foot. Demuth and Fee (1995) proposed that children demonstrate early sensitivity to word-minimality effects, exhibiting a period of vowel lengthening or vowel epenthesis if coda co...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Demuth K,Culbertson J,Alter J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the prosody of rhetorical questions (RQs) and information-seeking questions (ISQs) in German for two question types-polar questions and constituent questions (henceforth "wh-questions"). The results are as follows: Phonologically, polar RQs were mainly realized with H-% (high plateau), while pola...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Braun B,Dehé N,Neitsch J,Wochner D,Zahner K

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arnon and Snider ((2010). More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases. Journal of memory and language, 62, 67-82) documented frequency effects for compositional four-grams independently of the frequencies of lower-order n-grams. They argue that comprehenders apparently store frequency information about m...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Baayen RH,Hendrix P,Ramscar M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of vowel duration for specifying vowel contrasts differs across languages. In English, for example, a number of vowel pairs are acoustically differentiated by both temporal and spectral information, whereas in standard French temporal information plays a much more minor role. Gottfried and Beddor (1988)...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Miller JL,Grosjean F

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we report on two experiments about the perception of audiovisual cues to emotional speech. The article addresses two questions: 1) how do visual cues from a speaker's face to emotion relate to auditory cues, and (2) what is the recognition speed for various facial cues to emotion? Both experiments repo...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Barkhuysen P,Krahmer E,Swerts M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four speaker identification tests were conducted using five female speakers known to the listeners. Starting from acoustic recordings of reiterant "ma" syllables, the perceptual importance of the following three factors was investigated: F0 height, F0 contour, and speech rhythm. For speakers with typically low or high...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： van Dommelen WA

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the issue of whether extended length of residence (LOR) in adulthood can provide sufficient input to overcome age effects. The study replicates Flege, Takagi, and Mann (1995), which found that 10 out of 12 Japanese learners of English with extensive residence (12 years or more) produced liquids as ac...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Larson-Hall J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides three representative examples that highlight the ways in which procedures can be combined to study interactions across traditional domains of study: segmentation, word learning, and grammar. The first section uses visual familiarization prior to the Headturn Preference Procedure to demonstrate that...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Hollich G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing numbers of Hispanic immigrants are entering the US and learning American-English (AE) as a second language (L2). Previous studies investigating the relationship between AE and Spanish vowels have revealed an advantage for early L2 learners for their accuracy of L2 vowel perception. Replicating and extending...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Baigorri M,Campanelli L,Levy ES

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A perception experiment with native German listeners provided evidence for the relevance of the tonal onglide in nuclear accents--the pitch movement leading towards the target on the accented syllable. Listeners were able to distinguish between two pragmatic meanings of a short phrase (given/non-contrastive and new/co...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Ritter S,Grice M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on durational cues (i.e., syllable duration, pause duration, and syllable onset intervals (SOIs)) at discourse boundaries in two dialects of Mandarin,Taiwan and Mainland varieties. Speech was elicited by having 18 participants describe events in The Pear Story film. Recorded data were transcribed, l...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Fon J,Johnson K,Chen S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voice onset time (VOT) is a temporal acoustic parameter that reflects motor speech coordination skills. This study investigated the patterns of age and sex differences across development of voice onset time in a group of 70 English-speaking children, ranging in age from 4.1 to 18.4 years, and 12 young adults. The effe...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Yu VY,De Nil LF,Pang EW

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor beginning readers often have difficulty comprehending spoken sentences with complex syntactic structures. This study attempts to identify the reasons for this difficulty. Second-grade good and poor readers were tested for comprehension of spoken sentences containing the temporal terms before and after. Processing...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Macaruso P,Bar-Shalom E,Crain S,Shankweiler D

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain consonant/vowel (CV) combinations are more frequent than would be expected from the individual C and V frequencies alone, both in babbling and, to a lesser extent, in adult language, based on dictionary counts: Labial consonants co-occur with central vowels more often than chance would dictate; coronals co-occ...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Whalen DH,Giulivi S,Nam H,Levitt AG,Hallé P,Goldstein LM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current research explores the role of lexical representations and processing in the recognition of phonological variants. Two alternative approaches for variant recognition are considered: a representational approach that posits frequency-graded lexical representations for variant forms and inferential processes t...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Pinnow E,Connine CM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00