Language and Speech articles from September 2002

Language and Speech archives from September 2002

Constraints of lexical stress on lexical access in English: evidence from native and non-native listeners *.
September 1, 2002... Abstract Four cross-modal priming experiments and two forced-choice identification experiments investigated the use of suprasegmental cues to stress in the recognition of spoken English words, by native (English-speaking) and non-native...

Intonational rises and dialog acts in the Australian English map task *.
September 1, 2002... Abstract Eight map task dialogs representative of General Australian English, were coded for speaker turn, and for dialog acts using a version of SWBD-DAMSL, a dialog act annotation scheme. High, low, simple, and complex rising tunes, and...

Effects of variation in emotional tone of voice on speech perception *.
September 1, 2002... Abstract The effects of variation from stimulus to stimulus in emotional tone of voice on speech perception were examined through a series of perceptual experiments. Stimuli were recorded from human speakers who produced utterances in...

Effects of lexical factors on lexical access among typical language-learning children and children with word-finding difficulties *.
September 1, 2002... Abstract This investigation studied the influence of lexical factors, known to impact lexical access in adults, on the word retrieval of children. Participants included 320 typical and atypical (word-finding difficulties) language-learning...