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Mann, Virginia A.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Examined the effects of rounded and unrounded vowels on the perception of the voiceless fricatives "s" and "sh" by adults and by young children who could and could not produce both sounds. Concluded that productive mastery is not critically responsible for perception of the distinction between the two phonemes or the…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Language Acquisition
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Ansel, Beth M.; Kent, Raymond D. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
This study used a contrasting word task to evaluate the relationship between specific acoustic features of speech and perceptual judgments of word intelligibility of 16 adults with cerebral palsy-dysarthria. The scaled intelligibility was predicted with 62.6 percent accuracy by acoustic measures related to one consonant contrast and three vowel…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Auditory Perception, Cerebral Palsy
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Reed, Charlotte M.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Three supplementary tactual displays were investigated for improving speech reception through the Tadoma method of speechreading: articulatory-based display of tongue contact with the hard palate, multichannel display of the short-term speech spectrum, and tactual reception of Cued Speech. For vowel and consonant stimulus pairs, discriminability…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Consonants
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Ed.; O'Brien, Nancy, Ed. – 1983
Prepared as part of a regular series on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its evaluation, and practical applications for speech research, this compilation contains 14 reports. Topics covered in the reports include the following: (1) phonetic coding and order memory in relation to reading proficiency,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Communication Research