The role of tonal onglides in German nuclear pitch accents.

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：:This paper addresses the impact of dialogue strategies and functional features of spatial arrangements on communicative success. To examine the sharing of cognition between two minds in order to achieve a joint goal, we collected a corpus of 24 extended German-language dialogues in a referential communication task tha...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Tenbrink T,Andonova E,Schole G,Coventry KR

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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