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Schwartz, Geoffrey – Second Language Research, 2020
This article discusses the implications of phonological representation for the study of L2 speech acquisition. It is argued, on the basis of empirical findings from diverse phenomena in L2 phonology, that refined representations in which 'segments' have internal prosodic structure offer a more insightful view of cross-linguistic phonetic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
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Arciuli, Joanne; Colombo, Lucia; Surian, Luca – Journal of Child Language, 2020
We investigated production of lexical stress in children with and without autism spectrum disorders (ASD), all monolingual Italian speakers. The mean age of the 16 autistic children was 5.73 years and the mean age of the 16 typically developing children was 4.65 years. Picture-naming targets were five trisyllabic words that began with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Wang, Luchang; Kalashnikova, Marina; Kager, René; Lai, Regine; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The functions of acoustic-phonetic modifications in infant-directed speech (IDS) remain a question: do they specifically serve to facilitate language learning via enhanced phonemic contrasts (the hyperarticulation hypothesis) or primarily to improve communication via prosodic exaggeration (the prosodic hypothesis)? The study of lexical tones…
Descriptors: Phonology, Sino Tibetan Languages, Phonemics, Intonation
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Lubold, Nichola; Willi, Megan M.; Borrie, Stephanie A.; Barrett, Tyson S.; Berisha, Visar – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: For individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), conversational interactions can be challenging. Efforts to improve the success of these interactions have largely fallen on the individual with PD. Successful communication, however, involves contributions from both the individual with PD and their communication partner. The current study…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Acoustics
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Bazarbayeva, Z. M.; Amanbayeva, A. Zh.; Zhumabayeva, Zh. T.; Zhalalova, A. M. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Speech discourse is the communication between people, that is, the speaker seeks to influence the recipient in a conversation, using deep thoughts and meaningful words, expecting to receive a response from the addressee. In modern Kazakh linguistics, speech discourse is being explored in various ways as a reflection of people's relationships and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Intonation
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Weed, Ethan; Fusaroli, Riccardo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The aim of the study was to use systematic review and meta-analysis to quantitatively assess the currently available acoustic evidence for prosodic production impairments as a result of right-hemisphere damage (RHD), as well as to develop methodological recommendations for future studies. Method: We systematically reviewed papers…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Neurological Impairments, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Research Reports
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Esteve-Gibert, Núria; Loevenbruck, Hélène; Dohen, Marion; D'Imperio, Mariapaola – Developmental Science, 2022
Previous evidence suggests that children's mastery of prosodic modulations to signal the informational status of discourse referents emerges quite late in development. In the present study, we investigate the children's use of head gestures as it compares to prosodic cues to signal a referent as being contrastive relative to a set of possible…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Nonverbal Communication, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
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Rong, Panying; Heidrick, Lindsey – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study aimed to (a) relate temporal patterning of articulation to functional speech outcomes in neurologically healthy and impaired speakers, (b) identify changes in temporal patterning of articulation in neurologically impaired speakers, and (c) evaluate how these changes can be modulated by speaking rate manipulation. Method:…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Intelligibility, Neurological Impairments, Speech Impairments
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Schwartz, Geoffrey – Second Language Research, 2023
Two acoustic studies of voice onset time (VOT) in sibilant-stop (ST) consonant clusters, produced by first language (L1) speakers of Polish, are presented. In the first, a baseline study of L1 Polish comparing ST clusters with initial singleton stops, a small degree of VOT shortening after /s/ was found for /p/, but not /t/. The second study…
Descriptors: Phonology, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Piazza, Giorgio; Martin, Clara D.; Kalashnikova, Marina – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This scoping review considers the acoustic features of a clear speech register directed to nonnative listeners known as foreigner-directed speech (FDS). We identify vowel hyperarticulation and low speech rate as the most representative acoustic features of FDS; other features, including wide pitch range and high intensity, are still under…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech Communication, Vowels, Articulation (Speech)
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Boutsen, Frank; Park, Eunsun; Dvorak, Justin D. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The Motor Planning Theory of Prosody and reading prosody research indicate that "out of the blue" oral reading, as practiced in clinical and research settings, invokes surface rather than covert prosody, particularly when readers are recorded, less skilled, and/or speech impaired. Warm-up is not considered in passage reading for…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Suprasegmentals, Reading Fluency, Oral Reading
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Marchenko, Valentyna – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
In the present research we look into the mechanisms which facilitate integrated functioning of speech and music components within a song. To understand the underlying mechanisms of such interaction we investigate poems set to music, analyzing the components of both speech and music intonation. The study is performed within the scope of Speech…
Descriptors: Intonation, Speech Communication, Singing, Poetry
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Yu, Vickie Y. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
This study examined the importance of syllable position, duration, and tone/pitch for the assignment of stress in Chinese hums. Twenty native Mandarin speakers and 20 native English speakers were asked to assign primary stress to two-syllable Chinese hums. The importance of acoustic cues for stress assignment was also evaluated. Our findings…
Descriptors: Native Language, Syllables, Acoustics, Cues
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Rachida Ganga; Haoyan Ge; Marijn E. Struiksma; Virginia Yip; Aoju Chen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
It has been proposed that second language (L2) learners differ from native speakers in processing due to either influence from their native language or an inability to integrate information from multiple linguistic domains in a second language. To shed new light on the underlying mechanism of L2 processing, we used an event-related potentials…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Katya Petrova; Kyle Jasmin; Kazuya Saito; Adam T. Tierney – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Languages differ in the importance of acoustic dimensions for speech categorization. This poses a potential challenge for second language (L2) learners, and the extent to which adult L2 learners can acquire new perceptual strategies for speech categorization remains unclear. This study investigated the effects of extensive English L2 immersion on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese
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