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Ortiz, Rosario; Jimenez, Juan E.; Miranda, Eduardo Garcia; Rosquete, Remedios Guzman; Hernandez-Valle, Isabel; Rodrigo, Mercedes; Estevez, Adelina; Diaz, Alicia; Exposito, Sergio Hernandez – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
The aims of this study were (a) to determine whether Spanish children with reading disabilities (RD) show a speech perception deficit and (b) to explore the locus and nature of this perceptive deficit. A group of 29 children with RD, 41 chronological age-matched controls, and 27 reading ability-matched younger controls were tested on tasks of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Phonetics, Linguistics, Reaction Time
Bao, Mingzhen – ProQuest LLC, 2008
Linguistic prominence is defined as words or syllables perceived auditorily as standing out from their environment. It is explored through changes in pitch, duration and loudness. In this study, phonetic realization and perception of prominence among lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese was investigated in two experiments. Experiment 1 explored…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Acoustics, Cues, Vowels
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So, Connie K.; Best, Catherine T. – Language and Speech, 2010
This study examined the perception of the four Mandarin lexical tones by Mandarin-naive Hong Kong Cantonese, Japanese, and Canadian English listener groups. Their performance on an identification task, following a brief familiarization task, was analyzed in terms of tonal sensitivities (A-prime scores on correct identifications) and tonal errors…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
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Gauthier, Bruno; Shi, Rushen; Xu, Yi – Cognition, 2007
We explore in this study how infants may derive phonetic categories from adult input that are highly variable. Neural networks in the form of self-organizing maps (SOMs; Kohonen, 1989, 1995) were used to simulate unsupervised learning of Mandarin tones. In Simulation 1, we trained the SOMs with syllable-sized continuous F[subscript 0] contours,…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Speech, Mandarin Chinese, Classification
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Mani, Nivedita; Coleman, John; Plunkett, Kim – Language and Speech, 2008
Previous research has shown that English infants are sensitive to mispronunciations of vowels in familiar words by as early as 15-months of age. These results suggest that not only are infants sensitive to large mispronunciations of the vowels in words, but also sensitive to smaller mispronunciations, involving changes to only one dimension of the…
Descriptors: Vowels, Deafness, Infants, Phonology
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Kreiman, Jody; Gerratt, Bruce R.; Antonanzas-Barroso, Norma – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: Many researchers have studied the acoustics, physiology, and perceptual characteristics of the voice source, but despite significant attention, it remains unclear which aspects of the source should be quantified and how measurements should be made. In this study, the authors examined the relationships among a number of existing measures…
Descriptors: Physiology, Phonology, Factor Analysis, Acoustics
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Makarova, Veronika – Language and Speech, 2007
This paper reports the results of an experimental phonetic study examining pitch peak alignment in production and perception of three-syllable one-word sentences with phonetic rising-falling pitch movement by speakers of Russian. The first part of the study (Experiment 1) utilizes 22 one-word three-syllable utterances read by five female speakers…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syllables, Phonetics, Auditory Perception
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Berent, Iris; Steriade, Donca; Lennertz, Tracy; Vaknin, Vered – Cognition, 2007
Are speakers equipped with preferences concerning grammatical structures that are absent in their language? We examine this question by investigating the sensitivity of English speakers to the sonority of onset clusters. Linguistic research suggests that certain onset clusters are universally preferred (e.g., "bd" is greater than "lb"). We…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Research, Grammar, Russian
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Nittrouer, Susan; Lowenstein, Joanna H. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: It has been reported that children and adults weight differently the various acoustic properties of the speech signal that support phonetic decisions. This finding is generally attributed to the fact that the amount of weight assigned to various acoustic properties by adults varies across languages, and that children have not yet…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Oral Language, Stimuli, Acoustics
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Colantoni, Laura; Steele, Jeffrey – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
Models such as Eckman's markedness differential hypothesis, Flege's speech learning model, and Brown's feature-based theory of perception seek to explain and predict the relative difficulty second language (L2) learners face when acquiring new or similar sounds. In this paper, we test their predictive adequacy as concerns native English speakers'…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Auditory Perception, Predictive Validity, French
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Werker, Janet F.; Pons, Ferran; Dietrich, Christiane; Kajikawa, Sachiyo; Fais, Laurel; Amano, Shigeaki – Cognition, 2007
Across the first year of life, infants show decreased sensitivity to phonetic differences not used in the native language [Werker, J. F., & Tees, R. C. (1984). Cross-language speech perception: evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life. "Infant Behaviour and Development," 7, 49-63]. In an artificial language learning…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Cues, Mothers, Auditory Perception
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Iverson, Paul; Ekanayake, Dulika; Hamann, Silke; Sennema, Anke; Evans, Bronwen G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The present study investigated the perception and production of English /w/ and /v/ by native speakers of Sinhala, German, and Dutch, with the aim of examining how their native language phonetic processing affected the acquisition of these phonemes. Subjects performed a battery of tests that assessed their identification accuracy for natural…
Descriptors: Cues, Phonemes, Multidimensional Scaling, Interference (Language)
Gogoi, Divya Verma – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Many factors that contribute towards the perception of second language (L2) sounds and the subsequent establishment of L2 phonetic categories have been the focus of past research. However, learning a third language, unlike SLA, may be influenced by additional factors attributed to the presence of two language systems in a bilingual instead of one…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Metalinguistics, Testing, Multilingualism
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Nolan, Francis – Journal of Linguistics, 1991
Examines, with skepticism, the history and development of forensic phonetics in response to the publication of "Forensic Phonetics" by J. Baldwin and P. French (1990). Three issues are specifically explored: (1) whether voices are unique, (2) whether a purely auditory approach is adequate, and (3) whether legally sufficient conclusions…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Phonetics, Psychoacoustics, Speech Communication
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Blomert, Leo; Mitterer, Holger; Paffen, Christiaan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004
There is a growing consensus that developmental dyslexia is associated with a phonological-core deficit. One symptom of this phonological deficit is a subtle speech-perception deficit. The auditory basis of this deficit is still hotly debated. If people with dyslexia, however, do not have an auditory deficit and perceive the underlying acoustic…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Mathematical Models, Auditory Perception, Dyslexia
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