Language and Speech articles from March 2007

Language and Speech archives from March 2007

Focus and VP ellipsis.(verb phrase)
March 1, 2007... Abstract In spoken English, pitch accents can convey the focus associated with new or contrasted constituents. Two listening experiments were conducted to determine whether accenting a subject makes its predicate a more tempting antecedent...

Perceptual distortions in the adaptation of English consonant clusters: syllable structure or consonantal contact constraints?
March 1, 2007... Abstract We present the results from an experiment that tests the perception of English consonantal sequences by Korean speakers and we confirm that perceptual epenthesis in a second languge (L2) arises from syllable structure restrictions...

The role of additional processing time and lexical constraint in spoken word recognition.
March 1, 2007... Abstract Three phoneme monitoring experiments examined the manner in which additional processing time influences spoken word recognition. Experiment 1a introduced a version of the phoneme monitoring paradigm in which a silent interval is...

Perceptual tests of rhythmic similarity: I. mora rhythm.
March 1, 2007... Abstract Listeners rely on native-language rhythm in segmenting speech; in different languages, stress-, syllable- or mora-based rhythm is exploited. The rhythmic similarity hypothesis holds that where two languages have similar rhythm,...

The acoustic correlates of perceived masculinity, perceived femininity, and perceived sexual orientation.
March 1, 2007... Abstract Previous studies have shown that a subset of gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) and heterosexual adults produce distinctive patterns of phonetic variation that allow listeners to detect their sexual orientation from audio-only...