Language and Speech articles from September 2004

Language and Speech archives from September 2004

Effects of talker variability on perceptual learning of dialects.
September 1, 2004... Abstract Two groups of listeners learned to categorize a set of unfamiliar talkers by dialect region using sentences selected from the TIMIT speech corpus. One group learned to categorize a single talker from each of six American English...

The perception of syllable affiliation of singleton stops in repetitive speech.
September 1, 2004... Abstract Stetson (1951) noted that repeating singleton coda consonants at fast speech rates makes them be perceived as onset consonants affiliated with a following vowel. The current study documents the perception of rate-induced...

Nasality in Taiwanese.
September 1, 2004... Abstract This study used perceptual and articulatory data to investigate a language specific phonelnic inventory, and allophonic rules for homorganic initial voiced stops versus homorganic nasal stops, and oral versus nasal vowels in...

Speech rate in a pluricentric language: a comparison between Dutch in Belgium and the Netherlands.
September 1, 2004... Abstract This paper investigates speech rate in two standard national varieties of Dutch on the basis of 160 15 mins conversations with native speakers who belong to four different regions in the Netherlands and four in the Dutch-speaking...