Language and Speech articles from December 2002

Language and Speech archives from December 2002

Errata.
December 1, 2002... Language and Speech, 45(3), 229-253: Fletcher, J., Stirling, L., Mushin, I., & Wales, R. (2003). Intonational rises and dialog acts in the Australian English Map Task. p. 252: Appendix 1: Heading: top line, final column: Reads: ...

Prosodic effects on word reduction *.
December 1, 2002... Abstract It is widely known that English-speaking children reduce words by omitting syllables in certain predictable patterns (e.g., banana ~ nana). One way to better understand the nature of phonological reductions in children is to...

Syllabification of intervocalic consonants by English and Japanese Speakers *.
December 1, 2002... Abstract This study investigated how English and Japanese speakers syllabify two-syllable English words and nonwords with single intervocalic consonants. In oral tasks, participants inserted a pause between two parts of English words and...

Tone perception ability of Cantonese-speaking children *.
December 1, 2002... Abstract Studies have shown that while children acquire all Cantonese tones by age two, they are not able to label them reliably until approximately age 10. One possible explanation for the large age discrepancy may be the different...

Naturalistic and experimental analyses of word frequency and neighborhood density effects in slips of the ear *.
December 1, 2002... Abstract A comparison of the lexical characteristics of 88 auditory misperceptions (i.e., slips of the ear) showed no difference in word-frequency, neighborhood density, and neighborhood frequency between the actual and the perceived...

Erratum.
December 1, 2002... Effects of Lexical Factors on Lexical Access among Typical Language-Learning Children and Children with Word-Finding Difficulties Rochelle S. Newman and Diane J. German 'Language and Speech' Volume 45, Part 3, pages 285-317 ...