Study of the phonological systems in the language of twins, two-and-a-half years old. (VM)

Studies the sounds of the Parisian French /R/ consonant by examining sound spectrograms and X-ray photographs of speakers' pharynxes. Illustrates the phonetic distinctions and compares the Parisian consonantal usage to usage in other languages, including American English. (AM)

Summarizes a model of phonology acquisition based on child speech development. Suggests that a categorization of the kinds of phonological changes which occur during the acquisition period leads to parallels between the mechanisms of phonological change in children and adults. (PMJ)

Describes a study investigating the effects of second language learning on voice onset time (VOT) values in production of word initial stop consonants. Production of Spanish and English words by two native Spanish speaking siblings, one delayed in the acquisition of Spanish and both learning English, was compared. (Author/MES)

Examples are presented of schwa elisions from the sequence /r/-plus-consonant that are typical of contemporary general British pronunciation of English. This occurs often in lexical pronunciations and very often in syllables in proclitic or enclitic prosodic situations. (SW)

This study investigated the effectiveness of articulation training (daily sessions for 8 weeks) on the production of phonemes by 12 hearing impaired children (ages 5-10). Results suggest that phonemes with an intermediate error rate (trained at a phonological level) are easier to train than phonemes with a high error rate (trained at a phonetic…

This paper reports on increases in the phonetic inventories of nine children in the fifth and sixth years of experience with cochlear implants. Thirty-six of 44 phones in Australian English reached criterion levels, resulting in intelligible, but not completely natural, speech. The rate of improvement in the sixth year was slow, indicating a…

Electropalatography (EPG), a technique which reveals tongue-palate contact patterns over time, is a highly effective tool for speech research. We report here on recent developments by Articulate Instruments Ltd. These include hardware for Windows-based computers, backwardly compatible (with Reading EPG3) software systems for clinical intervention…

The research described in this article had 2 aims: to permit greater precision in the conduct of naming experiments and to contribute to a characterization of the motor execution stage of speech production. The authors report an exhaustive inventory of consonantal and postconsonantal influences on delayed naming latency and onset acoustic…

The STARDUST project developed robust computer speech recognizers for use by eight people with severe dysarthria and concomitant physical disability to access assistive technologies. Independent computer speech recognizers trained with normal speech are of limited functional use by those with severe dysarthria due to limited and inconsistent…