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Walker, Judy P.; Joseph, Lydia; Goodman, Jeffrey – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
This study investigated the production of linguistic prosody in subjects with left hemisphere damage (LHD). Three experiments involving the production of lexical stress in nouns vs verbs, compound nouns vs tag constructions, and echo questions vs statements were conducted. Acoustic measurements (fundamental frequency (F[subscript 0]), duration and…
Descriptors: Nouns, Acoustics, Suprasegmentals, Verbs
Mirzayan, Armik – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This thesis provides a comprehensive account of the intonational phonology of Lakota, an indigenous North American language of the Siouan family. Lakota is predominantly a verb final language, characterized by complex verbal morphology. The phonological description of Lakota intonation and prosody presented here is based on acoustic analysis of…
Descriptors: Cues, Speech, Syllables, Intonation
Goswami, Usha; Gerson, Danielle; Astruc, Luisa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
Here we explore relations between auditory perception of amplitude envelope structure, prosodic sensitivity, and phonological awareness in a sample of 56 typically-developing children and children with developmental dyslexia. We examine whether rise time sensitivity is linked to prosodic sensitivity, and whether prosodic sensitivity is linked to…
Descriptors: Cues, Phonology, Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness
Cuenca, M. H.; Barrio, M. M. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Prosodic information aids segmentation of the continuous speech signal and thereby facilitates auditory speech processing. Durational and pitch variations are prosodic cues especially necessary to convey prosodic boundaries, but alaryngeal speakers have inconsistent control over acoustic parameters such as F0 and duration, being as a result noisy…
Descriptors: Cues, Speech, Speech Impairments, Acoustics
Kang, Okim – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2010
Suprasegmentals have been emphasized in ESL/EFL pedagogy since the advent of communicative language teaching. However, it is still unclear how individual suprasegmental features affect listeners' judgments of non-native speakers' accented speech. The current study began to specify relative weights of individual temporal and prosodic features for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Suprasegmentals, Computer Software, Teaching Assistants
Skoruppa, Katrin; Pons, Ferran; Christophe, Anne; Bosch, Laura; Dupoux, Emmanuel; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria; Limissuri, Rita Alves; Peperkamp, Sharon – Developmental Science, 2009
During the first year of life, infants begin to have difficulties perceiving non-native vowel and consonant contrasts, thus adapting their perception to the phonetic categories of the target language. In this paper, we examine the perception of a non-segmental feature, i.e. stress. Previous research with adults has shown that speakers of French (a…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Infants, French, Spanish
Zajac, David J.; Harris, Adrianne A.; Roberts, Joanne E.; Martin, Gary E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: To compare the perceived articulation rate of boys with fragile X syndrome (FXS) with that of chronologically age-matched (CA) boys and to determine segmental and/or prosodic factors that account for perceived rate. Method: Ten listeners used direct magnitude estimation procedures to judge the articulation rates of 7 boys with FXS only, 5…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Males, Children, Genetic Disorders
Rojas, David Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Systematic differences among regional U.S. English speech are recognizable to native speakers to varying degrees. This has been demonstrated by researchers in perceptual dialectology who ask listeners to match a speaker to his or her dialect region. Machines have also been able to identify the regional origin of a speaker to some degree, although…
Descriptors: Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Phonemes, Identification
Vicenik, Chad Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2011
It has been widely shown that infants and adults are capable of using only prosodic information to discriminate between languages. However, it remains unclear which aspects of prosody, either rhythm or intonation, listeners attend to for language discrimination. Previous researchers have suggested that rhythm, the duration and timing of speech…
Descriptors: Intonation, Auditory Discrimination, North American English, Acoustics
Jangjamras, Jirapat – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the effects of first language prosodic transfer on the perception and production of English lexical stress and the relation between stress perception and production by second language learners. To test the effect of Thai tonal distribution rules and stress patterns on native Thai speakers' perception and production of…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Evidence, Acoustics, North American English
Seidl, Amanda – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
This paper investigates the acoustic properties of speech used by infant listeners to discover clauses in continuous speech. In a series of experiments using the Headturn Preference procedure, 6-month-old infants' use and weighting of prosodic cues in their segmentation of clauses in continuous speech was explored. The experiments sequentially…
Descriptors: Infants, Cues, Suprasegmentals, Acoustics
Perry, Conrad; Wong, Richard Kwok-Shing; Matthews, Stephen – Language and Speech, 2009
We examined the relationship between the acoustic duration of syllables and the silent pauses that follow them in Cantonese. The results showed that at major syntactic junctures, acoustic plus silent pause durations were quite similar for a number of different syllable types whose acoustic durations differed substantially. In addition, it appeared…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Syllables, Acoustics, Time
Boucher, Victor J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The objective was to identify acoustic correlates of laryngeal muscle fatigue in conditions of vocal effort. Method: In a previous study, a technique of electromyography (EMG) served to define physiological signs of "voice fatigue" in laryngeal muscles involved in voicing. These signs correspond to spectral changes in contraction…
Descriptors: Fatigue (Biology), Intervals, Suprasegmentals, Human Body
Shintel, Hadas; Nusbaum, Howard C. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Suprasegmental acoustic patterns in speech can convey meaningful information and affect listeners' interpretation in various ways, including through systematic analog mapping of message-relevant information onto prosody. We examined whether the effect of analog acoustic variation is governed by the acoustic properties themselves. For example, fast…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Suprasegmentals, Acoustics, Syntax
Mo, Yoonsook – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Speech utterances are more than the linear concatenation of individual phonemes or words. They are organized by prosodic structures comprising phonological units of different sizes (e.g., syllable, foot, word, and phrase) and the prominence relations among them. As the linguistic structure of spoken languages, prosody serves an important function…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Cues, Speech Communication, Articulation (Speech)