Finding Phrases: The Interplay of Word Frequency, Phrasal Prosody and Co-speech Visual Information in Chunking Speech by Monolingual and Bilingual Adults.

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：:Adults are generally adept at recognizing familiar words in unfamiliar accents. However, studies testing young children’s abilities to cope with accent-related variation in the speech signal have generated mixed results, with some work emphasizing toddlers’ early competence and other work focusing more on their long-l...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： van Heugten M,Johnson EK

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the link between the perception and production in sound change in progress, both at the regional and the individual level. Two devoicing processes showing regional variation in Dutch are studied: the devoicing of initial labiodental fricatives and of initial bilabial stops. Five regions were se...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Pinget AF,Kager R,Van de Velde H

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:It is still unclear whether an individual's adoption of on-going sound change starts in production or in perception, and what the time course of the adoption of sound change is in adult speakers. These issues are investigated by means of a large-scale (106 participants) laboratory study of an on-going vowel shift in D...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Voeten CC

更新日期：2020-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tests the output constraints hypothesis that languages with a crowded phonemic vowel space would allow less vowel-to-vowel coarticulation than languages with a sparser vowel space to avoid perceptual confusion. Mandarin has fewer vowel phonemes than Cantonese, but their allophonic vowel spaces are similarly...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Mok PP

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated identification of fragmented Mandarin tones by non-native listeners. Monosyllabic Mandarin words were digitally processed to generate intact, silent-center, center-only, and onset-only syllables. The syllables were recorded with two carrier phrases such that the offset of the carrier tone and t...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Lee CY,Tao L,Bond ZS

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Lexical acquisition relies on many mechanisms, one of which corresponds to segmentation abilities, that is, the ability to extract word forms from fluent speech. This ability is important since words are rarely produced in isolation even when talking to infants. The present study explored whether young French-learning...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Nishibayashi LL,Goyet L,Nazzi T

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:The objective of this study was to determine how bilinguals' age at the time of language acquisition influenced the organization of their phonetic system(s). The productions of six English and five Korean vowels by English and Korean monolinguals were compared to the productions of the same vowels by early and late Ko...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Baker W,Trofimovich P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today, virtually all speakers of Mapudungun (formerly Araucanian), an endangered language of Chile and Argentina, are bilingual in Spanish. As a result, the firmness of native speaker intuitions-especially regarding perceptually complex issues such as word-stress-has been called into question. Even though native intui...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Molineaux BJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：: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：:Infants as young as six months are sensitive to prosodic phrase boundaries marked by three acoustic cues: pitch change, final lengthening, and pause. Behavioral studies suggest that a language-specific weighting of these cues develops during the first year of life; recent work on German revealed that eight-month-olds,...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Holzgrefe-Lang J,Wellmann C,Höhle B,Wartenburger I

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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：:Speech convergence is the tendency of talkers to become more similar to someone they are listening or talking to, whether that person is a conversational partner or merely a voice heard repeating words. To elucidate the nature of the mechanisms underlying convergence, this study uses different levels of task difficult...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Abel J,Babel M

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:In a data set of 291 spontaneous utterances from German 5-year-olds, 7-year-olds and adults, nuclear pitch contours were labeled manually using the GToBI annotation system.Ten different contour types were identified.The fundamental frequency (F0) of these contours was modeled using third-order orthogonal polynomials, ...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： de Ruiter LE

更新日期：2011-06-01 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

abstract：:The influence of orthographic knowledge has been consistently observed in dissimilarity speech recognition and metaphonological tasks. The present study provides data suggesting that such influence also pervades other cognitive domains phonological related to language abilities, such as verbal working memory. Using se...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Pattamadilok C,Lafontaine H,Morais J,Kolinsky R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How are violations of phonological constraints processed in word comprehension? The present article reports the results of an event-related potentials (ERP) study on a phonological constraint of German that disallows identical segments within a syllable or word (CC(i)VC(i)). We examined three types of monosyllabic lat...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Domahs U,Kehrein W,Knaus J,Wiesel R,Schlesewsky M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The categorical perception paradigm was used to investigate whether French-English bilinguals categorize a code-switched word as French or English on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic information alone or whether they are influenced by the base-language context in which the word occurs, that is, by the language in wh...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Bürki-Cohen J,Grosjean F,Miller JL

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

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：: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