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Shafiro, Valeriy; Levy, Erika S.; Khamis-Dakwar, Reem; Kharkhurin, Anatoliy – Language and Speech, 2013
This study investigated the perception of American-English (AE) vowels and consonants by young adults who were either (a) early Arabic-English bilinguals whose native language was Arabic or (b) native speakers of the English dialects spoken in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where both groups were studying. In a closed-set format, participants…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonemes, Dialects, Young Adults
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LoCasto, Paul C.; Connine, Cynthia M. – Language and Speech, 2011
The cross modal repetition priming paradigm was used to investigate how potential lexically ambiguous no-release variants are processed. In particular we focus on segmental regularities that affect the variant's frequency of occurrence (voicing of the critical segment) and phonological context in which the variant occurs (status of the following…
Descriptors: Priming, Phonemes, Word Recognition, Speech Communication
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Kaplan, Abby – Language and Speech, 2011
The phonological processes known as "lenition" have traditionally been explained as articulatory effort reduction. However, such a motivation for lenition has never been directly demonstrated; in addition, there are reasons to doubt the articulatory explanation.This paper focuses on a particular type of lenition (intervocalic…
Descriptors: Phonology, Classification, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception
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LoCasto, Paul C.; Connine, Cynthia M.; Patterson, David – Language and Speech, 2007
Three phoneme monitoring experiments examined the manner in which additional processing time influences spoken word recognition. Experiment 1a introduced a version of the phoneme monitoring paradigm in which a silent interval is inserted prior to the word-final target phoneme. Phoneme monitoring reaction time decreased as the silent interval…
Descriptors: Intervals, Reaction Time, Phonemes, Word Recognition
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Kim, Jeesun; Davis, Chris; Cutler, Anne – Language and Speech, 2008
To segment continuous speech into its component words, listeners make use of language rhythm; because rhythm differs across languages, so do the segmentation procedures which listeners use. For each of stress-, syllable-and mora-based rhythmic structure, perceptual experiments have led to the discovery of corresponding segmentation procedures. In…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Rhythm, Syllables, Oral Language
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Kabak, Baris; Idsardi, William J. – Language and Speech, 2007
We present the results from an experiment that tests the perception of English consonantal sequences by Korean speakers and we confirm that perceptual epenthesis in a second language (L2) arises from syllable structure restrictions of the first language (L1), rather than linear co-occurrence restrictions. Our study replicates and extends Dupoux,…
Descriptors: Speech, Syllables, Auditory Perception, Hypothesis Testing