Language and Speech articles from March 2004

Language and Speech archives from March 2004

Interaction between phonological and grammatical processing in single word production in Kiswahili *.
March 1, 2004... Abstract Grammatical priming of picture naming was investigated in Kiswahili, grammatical which has a complex grammatical noun class system (a system like grammatical gender), with up to 15 noun classes that have obligatory agreements on...

The smooth signal redundancy hypothesis: a functional explanation for relationships between redundancy, prosodic prominence, and duration in spontaneous speech *.
March 1, 2004... Abstract This paper explores two related factors which influence variation in duration, prosodic structure and redundancy in spontaneous speech. We argue that the constraint of producing robust communication while efficiently expending...

Syllable onset intervals as an indicator of discourse and syntactic boundaries in Taiwan Mandarin *.
March 1, 2004... Abstract This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in...

Probability in the grammar of German and Dutch: interfixation in triconstituent compounds *.
March 1, 2004... Abstract This study addresses the possibility that interfixes in multiconstituent nominal compounds in German and Dutch are functional as markers of immediate constituent structure. We report a lexical statistical survey of interfixation...