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Schwartz, Richard G.; Scheffler, Frances L. V.; Lopez, Karece – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2013
Using an identification task, we examined lexical effects on the perception of vowel duration as a cue to final consonant voicing in 12 children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 13 age-matched (6;6-9;6) peers with typical language development (TLD). Naturally recorded CVtsets [word-word (WW), nonword-nonword (NN), word-nonword (WN) and…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Speech, Vowels
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Mattys, Sven L.; Melhorn, James F. – Language and Speech, 2005
The involvement of syllables in the perception of spoken English has traditionally been regarded as minimal because of ambiguous syllable boundaries and overriding rhythmic segmentation cues. The present experiments test the perceptual separability of syllables and vowels in spoken English using the migration paradigm. Experiments 1 and 2 show…
Descriptors: Syllables, Vowels, Phonemes, Perception