Language and Speech articles

Recent articles from Language and Speech

Optical phonetics and visual perception of lexical and phrasal stress in English.
June 1, 2009... Abstract In a study of optical cues to the visual perception of stress, three American English talkers spoke words that differed in lexical stress and sentences that differed in phrasal stress, while video and movements of the face were recorded. The production of stressed and unstressed...

Interaction of audition and vision for the perception of prosodic contrastive focus.
June 1, 2009... Abstract Prosodic contrastive focus is used to attract the listener's attention to a specific part of the utterance. Mostly conceived of as auditory/acoustic, it also has visible correlates which have been shown to be perceived. This study aimed at analyzing auditory-visual perception of...

Visual intonation in the prosody of a sign language.
June 1, 2009... Abstract While visual signals that accompany spoken language serve to augment the communicative message, the same visual ingredients form the substance of the linguistic system in sign languages. This article provides an analysis of visual signals that comprise part of the intonational...

Mixed signals: combining linguistic and affective functions of eyebrows in questions in sign language of the Netherlands.
June 1, 2009... Abstract The eyebrows are used as conversational signals in face-to-face spoken interaction (Ekman, 1979). In Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), the eyebrows are typically furrowed in content questions, and raised in polar questions (Coerts, 1992). On the other hand, these eyebrow...

L1-Spanish speakers' acquisition of the English /i/-/I/ contrast: duration-based perception is not the initial developmental stage.
December 1, 2008... Abstract L1-Spanish L2-English listeners' perception of a Canadian-English /bIt/-/bId/-/bit/-/bid/ continuum was investigated. Results were largely consistent with the developmental stages for L1-Spanish listeners' acquisition of English /i/ and /I/ hypothesized by Escudero (2000): Stage...