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Noiray, Aude; Wieling, Martijn; Abakarova, Dzhuma; Rubertus, Elina; Tiede, Mark – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This study examines the temporal organization of vocalic anticipation in German children from 3 to 7 years of age and adults. The main objective was to test for nonlinear processes in vocalic anticipation, which may result from the interaction between lingual gestural goals for individual vowels and those for their neighbors over time.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Adults, Comparative Analysis
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Altvater-Mackensen, Nicole; Mani, Nivedita; Grossmann, Tobias – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Recent studies suggest that infants' audiovisual speech perception is influenced by articulatory experience (Mugitani et al., 2008; Yeung & Werker, 2013). The current study extends these findings by testing if infants' emerging ability to produce native sounds in babbling impacts their audiovisual speech perception. We tested 44 6-month-olds…
Descriptors: Speech, Infants, Auditory Perception, Visual Perception
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Scharrer, Lisa; Christmann, Ursula; Knoll, Monja – Language and Speech, 2011
Previous research has shown that in different languages ironic speech is acoustically modulated compared to literal speech, and these modulations are assumed to aid the listener in the comprehension process by acting as cues that mark utterances as ironic. The present study was conducted to identify paraverbal features of German "ironic…
Descriptors: Cues, Vowels, Figurative Language, Criticism