Auditory word serial recall benefits from orthographic dissimilarity.

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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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

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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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