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Hanulikova, Adriana; Dediu, Dan; Fang, Zhou; Basnakova, Jana; Huettig, Falk – Language Learning, 2012
Many learners of a foreign language (L2) struggle to correctly pronounce newly learned speech sounds, yet many others achieve this with apparent ease. Here we explored how a training study of learning complex consonant clusters at the very onset of L2 acquisition can inform us about L2 learning in general and individual differences in particular.…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Individual Differences, Native Speakers
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Awan, Shaheen N.; Roy, Nelson; JettE, Marie E.; Meltzner, Geoffrey S.; Hillman, Robert E. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study investigated the relationship between acoustic spectral/cepstral measures and listener severity ratings in normal and disordered voice samples. CAPE-V sentence samples and the vowel /[script]/were elicited from eight normal speakers and 24 patients with varying degrees of dysphonia severity. Samples were analysed for measures of the…
Descriptors: Voice Disorders, Patients, Acoustics, Auditory Perception
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Gogate, Lakshmi J.; Hollich, George – Psychological Review, 2010
In this article, we hypothesize that "invariance detection," a general perceptual phenomenon whereby organisms attend to relatively stable patterns or regularities, is an important means by which infants tune in to various aspects of spoken language. In so doing, we synthesize a substantial body of research on detection of regularities across the…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Auditory Perception, Word Recognition
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Drager, Katie – Language and Speech, 2011
Recent research provides evidence that individuals shift in their perception of variants depending on social characteristics attributed to the speaker. This paper reports on a speech perception experiment designed to test the degree to which the age attributed to a speaker influences the perception of vowels undergoing a chain shift. As a result…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Vowels, Social Characteristics
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Foxton, Jessica M.; Riviere, Louis-David; Barone, Pascal – Cognition, 2010
Speech prosody has traditionally been considered solely in terms of its auditory features, yet correlated visual features exist, such as head and eyebrow movements. This study investigated the extent to which visual prosodic features are able to affect the perception of the auditory features. Participants were presented with videos of a speaker…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Speech Communication, Suprasegmentals, Human Body
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Dankovicova, Jana; Hunt, Claire – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is an acquired neurogenic disorder characterized by altered speech that sounds foreign-accented. This study presents a British subject perceived to speak with an Italian (or Greek) accent after a brainstem (pontine) stroke. Native English listeners rated the strength of foreign accent and impairment they perceived in…
Descriptors: Phonetic Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Languages, Pronunciation
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van Weerdenburg, Marjolijn; Verhoeven, Ludo; Bosman, Anna; van Balkom, Hans – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
This longitudinal investigation on Dutch children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) aimed at determining the predictive value of statistically uncorrelated language proficiencies on later reading and spelling skills in Dutch. Language abilities, tested with an extensive test battery at the onset of formal reading instruction, were…
Descriptors: Spelling, Speech, Semantics, Language Impairments
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Guddattu, Vasudeva; Krishna, Y. – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2011
The speech produced by human vocal tract is a complex acoustic signal, with diverse applications in phonetics, speech synthesis, automatic speech recognition, speaker identification, communication aids, speech pathology, speech perception, machine translation, hearing research, rehabilitation and assessment of communication disorders and many…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Translation, Communication Disorders, Speech Language Pathology
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Wong, Patrick C. M.; Ettlinger, Marc – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
We report two sets of experiments showing that the large individual variability in language learning success in adults can be attributed to neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, cognitive, and perceptual factors. In the first set of experiments, native English-speaking adults learned to incorporate lexically meaningfully pitch patterns in words. We…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Phonology, Tone Languages
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Warker, Jill A.; Xu, Ye; Dell, Gary S.; Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2009
Adults rapidly learn phonotactic constraints from brief production or perception experience. Three experiments asked whether this learning is modality-specific, occurring separately in production and perception, or whether perception transfers to production. Participant pairs took turns repeating syllables in which particular consonants were…
Descriptors: Speech, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Adults
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Most, Tova; Shina-August, Ella; Meilijson, Sara – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2010
This study characterized the profile of pragmatic abilities among 24 children with hearing loss (HL) aged 6.3-9.4 years, 13 using hearing aids (HAs) and 11 using cochlear implants (CIs), in comparison to those of 13 hearing children with similar chronological and language ages. All the children with HL used spoken language, attended regular…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Speech, Rehabilitation Programs, Oral Language
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Boets, Bart; Vandermosten, Maaike; Poelmans, Hanne; Luts, Heleen; Wouters, Jan; Ghesquiere, Pol – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Developmental dyslexia is characterized by severe reading and spelling difficulties that are persistent and resistant to the usual didactic measures and remedial efforts. It is well established that a major cause of these problems lies in poorly specified phonological representations. Many individuals with dyslexia also present impairments in…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Developmental Disabilities, Perceptual Impairments, Preschool Children
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Gow, David W., Jr.; Keller, Corey J.; Eskandar, Emad; Meng, Nate; Cash, Sydney S. – Brain and Language, 2009
In this work, we apply Granger causality analysis to high spatiotemporal resolution intracranial EEG (iEEG) data to examine how different components of the left perisylvian language network interact during spoken language perception. The specific focus is on the characterization of serial versus parallel processing dependencies in the dominant…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Medicine, Auditory Perception
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Soto-Faraco, Salvador; Alsius, Agnes – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Cross-modal illusions such as the McGurk-MacDonald effect have been used to illustrate the automatic, encapsulated nature of multisensory integration. This characterization is based in the widespread assumption that the illusory percept arising from intersensory conflict reflects only the end-product of the multisensory integration process, with…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Speech, Visual Perception, Sensory Integration
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Watson, Peter J.; Schlauch, Robert S. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2008
Purpose: To examine the effect of fundamental frequency (F0) on the intelligibility of speech with flattened F0 contours in noise. Method: Participants listened to sentences produced by 2 female talkers in white noise. The listening conditions included the unmodified original sentences and sentences with resynthesized F0 that reflected the average…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Intonation, Females, Sentences
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