Language and Speech articles from June 2007

Language and Speech archives from June 2007

Jaw and order.(Report)
June 1, 2007... Abstract It is well-accepted that the jaw plays an active role in influencing vowel height. The general aim of the current study is to further investigate the extent to which the jaw is active in producing consonantal distinctions, with...

The relationship between musical skills, music training, and intonation analysis skills.
June 1, 2007... Abstract Few attempts have been made to look systematically at the relationship between musical and intonation analysis skills, a relationship that has been to date suggested only by informal observations. Following Mackenzie Beck (2003),...

Measuring syntactic complexity in spontaneous spoken Swedish.
June 1, 2007... Abstract Hesitation disfluencies after phonetically prominent stranded function words are thought to reflect the cognitive coding of complex structures. Speech fragments following the Swedish function word att 'that' were analyzed...

Caught in the ACT: the timing of aspiration and voicing in East Bengali.(after closure time )(Report)
June 1, 2007... Abstract East Bengali is a language that displays a four-way contrast of voiced / voiceless and aspirated/unaspirated oral stops and affricates in all word positions. Additionally, in intervocalic position there is a quantity contrast...