Language and Speech articles from June 2004

Language and Speech archives from June 2004

Perception of Mandarin lexical tones when F0 information is neutralized.
June 1, 2004... Abstract In tone languages, the identity of a word depends on its tone pattern as well as its phonetic structure. The primary cue to tone identity is the fundamental frequency (F0) contour. Two experiments explore how listeners perceive...

Effects of noise and proficiency on intelligibility of Chinese-accented English.
June 1, 2004... Abstract This study compared the intelligibility of native and foreign-accented English speech presented in quiet and mixed with three different levels of background noise. Two native American English speakers and four native Mandarin...

Vowel production and perception: hyperarticulation without a hyperspace effect.
June 1, 2004... Abstract The ability of speakers to exaggerate speech sounds ("hyperarticulation") has led to the theory that the targets themselves must be hyperarticulated. Johnson, Flemming, and Wright (1993) found that perceptual "best exemplar"...

Recognition of spoken words: semantic effects in lexical access.
June 1, 2004... Abstract Until recently most models of word recognition have assumed that semantic effects come into play only after the identification of the word in question. What little evidence exists for early semantic effects in word recognition has...