Infants' Processing of Prosodic Cues: Electrophysiological Evidence for Boundary Perception beyond Pause Detection.

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 principal aim of this investigation was to compare coarticulatory effects at different levels of the speech production system, in order to gain insight into the relations between the different levels. To this end, the relative magnitudes of carryover and anticipatory coarticulation with adjacent vowels were measur...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Hoole P,Nguyen-Trong N,Hardcastle W

更新日期：1993-04-01 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 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 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：:Although research examining the use of prosodic information in the processing of spoken words has increased in recent years, results from these studies have been inconclusive. The present series of experiments systematically examines the importance of one prosodic variable (lexical stress) in the recognition of isolat...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Slowiaczek LM

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：:The present study is concerned with lax /u/-fronting in Standard British English and in particular with whether this sound change in progress can be attributed to a waning of the perceptual compensation for the coarticulatory effects of context. Younger and older speakers produced various monosyllables in which /u/ oc...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Kleber F,Harrington J,Reubold U

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Fon J,Johnson K

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:When processing the initial segment of a sentence, readers may favor an interpretation that will turn out to be incorrect as more words are read. In these cases, a reanalysis process is necessary in order to correct the mental representation built up to that point. It has been previously proposed that readers obey a m...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Miyamoto ET

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：: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 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：:Two experiments were carried out to investigate how the correspondence between sentence accentuation and distribution of information is used in human word processing. A forced-choice task with target words embedded in sentences was employed for this purpose. Target words provided either 'given' or 'new' information, a...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： van Donselaar W,Lentz J

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:The empirical focus of this paper is a conversational turn-taking phenomenon in which conjunctions produced immediately after a point of possible syntactic and pragmatic completion are treated by co-participants as points of possible completion and transition relevance. The data for this study are audio-video recordin...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Walker G

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00