Language and Speech articles from March 2006

Language and Speech archives from March 2006

Language processing: development and change.
March 1, 2006... In November, of 2002 a satellite conference was held in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Kansas City. Several of those who presented at the conference discussed the methodological techniques used to examine...

Combining techniques to reveal emergent effects in infants' segmentation, word learning, and grammar.
March 1, 2006... Abstract This paper provides three representative examples that highlight the ways in which procedures can be combined to study interactions across traditional domains of study: segmentation, word learning, and grammar. The first section...

Visual influences on perception of speech and nonspeech vocal-tract events.
March 1, 2006... Abstract We report four experiments designed to determine whether visual information affects judgments of acoustically-specified nonspeech events as well as speech events (the "McGurk effect"). Previous findings have shown only weak McGurk...

Developmental, crosslinguistic perspectives on visual word recognition.
March 1, 2006... Abstract In this paper, we argue that a complete understanding of language processing, in this case word-recognition processes, requires consideration both of multiple languages and of developmental processes. To illustrate these goals, we...

Age-related impairments in the revision of syntactic misanalyses: effects of prosody.
March 1, 2006... Abstract Two experiments examined whether young and older adults differ in comprehending sentences that contain temporary syntactic closure ambiguities. Experiment 1 examined age-related differences using the Auditory Moving Window (AMW)...

The dynamic nature of speech perception.
March 1, 2006... Abstract The speech perception system must be flexible in responding to the variability in speech sounds caused by differences among speakers and by language change over the lifespan of the listener. Indeed, listeners use lexical knowledge...

The time course of variability effects in the perception of spoken language: changes across the lifespan.
March 1, 2006... Abstract Although spoken language is communicated via a rapidly varying signal, human listeners recognize spoken words both quickly and accurately. Nonetheless, variability in speech does have implications for both the processes and...