Are eyebrow movements linked to voice variations and turn-taking in dialogue? An experimental investigation.

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 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：: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：: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：: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：:Previous works in English have revealed that disfluencies follow regular patterns and that incorporating them into the language model of a speech recognizer leads to lower perplexities and sometimes to a better performance. Although work on disfluency modeling has been applied outside the English community (e.g., in J...

journal_title：Language and speech

authors： Rodríguez LJ,Inés Torres M

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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 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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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