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Baillargeon, Megan; McLeod, Amy; Metz, Dale Evan; Schiavetti, Nicholas; Whitehead, Robert L. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2002
This study investigated the preservation of second formant transition acoustic cues to intelligibility in speech produced during simultaneous communication (SC) from a locus equation perspective with 12 normal hearing, experienced sign language users. Results were consistent with previous research indicating that temporal alterations produced by…
Descriptors: Adults, Deafness, Sign Language, Total Communication

Whitehead, Robert L.; Schiavetti, Nicholas; Metz, Dale Evan; Gallant, Deborah; Whitehead, Brenda H. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
A study investigated prosodic variables of syllable stress and intonation contours in speech produced during the simultaneous communication (SC) of ten hearing sign language users. Results indicated longer sentence duration for SC than speech only conditions. Vowel duration and frequency differences between stressed and unstressed syllables were…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Deafness, Intonation

Schiavetti, Nicholas; Whitehead, Robert L.; Whitehead, Brenda; Metz, Dale Evan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
A study of 10 typical women investigated the effect of fingerspelling task length on temporal characteristics and perceived naturalness of speech produced during simultaneous communication. Speech produced during simultaneous communication was rated as less natural and demonstrated increased interword interval, diphthong, work, and sentence…
Descriptors: Adults, Finger Spelling, Hearing Impairments, Sign Language