Priming Implicit Prosody: Prosodic Boundaries and Individual Differences.

abstract：:In this study, we investigate syntactic and prosodic features of the speaker's speech at points where turn-taking and backchannels occur, on the basis of our analysis of Japanese spontaneous dialogs. Specifically, we focus on features such as part of speech, duration, F0 contour pattern, relative height of the peak F0...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Koiso H,Horiuchi Y,Tutiya S,Ichikawa A,Den Y

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：: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：: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：:That lipreading plays a role in phoneme recognition, even when the acoustic signal alone is phonologically unambiguous, has been concluded from experiments in the perception of discrepant combinations of acoustic and visual speech signals. Little is known about the effect of visual information on explicitly phonetic j...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Lisker L,Rossi M

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The audiovisual speech signal contains multimodal information to phrase boundaries. In three artificial language learning studies with 12 groups of adult participants we investigated whether English monolinguals and bilingual speakers of English and a language with opposite basic word order (i.e., in which objects pre...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： de la Cruz-Pavía I,Werker JF,Vatikiotis-Bateson E,Gervain J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the phonology of the first 50-word period of a Portuguese-Turkish bilingual child (1;7 - 1;10), with specific reference to selection/avoidance patterns. Results reveal clear patterns of avoidance related to language-independent segmental restrictions (front rounded vowels, back high unrounded vowel...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Yavas M

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：:Studies have shown that while children acquire all Cantonese tones by age two, they are not able to label them reliably until approximately age 10. One possible explanation for the large age discrepancy may be the different methodologies used. This study aimed to (1) investigate a new research design for the collectio...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Lee KY,Chiu SN,van Hasselt CA

更新日期：2002-12-01 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 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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 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 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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