Language and Speech articles from September 2005

Language and Speech archives from September 2005

Is there an ironic tone of voice?
September 1, 2005... Abstract Research on nonverbal vocal cues and verbal irony has often relied on the concept of an ironic tone of voice. Here we provide acoustic analysis and experimental evidence that this notion is oversimplified and misguided. Acoustic...

English-learning infants' segmentation of verbs from fluent speech.
September 1, 2005... Abstract Two experiments sought to extend the demonstration of English-learning infants' abilities to segment nouns from fluent speech to a new lexical class: verbs. Moreover, we explored whether two factors previously shown to influence...

Judgment of disfluency in people who stutter and people who do not stutter: results from magnitude estimation.
September 1, 2005... Abstract Two experiments used a magnitude estimation paradigm to test whether perception of disfluency is a function of whether the speaker and the listener stutter or do not stutter. Utterances produced by people who stutter were judged...

The perception of phonological quantity based on durational cues by native speakers, second-language users and nonspeakers of finnish.
September 1, 2005... Abstract Some languages, such as Finnish, use speech-sound duration as the primary cue for a phonological quantity distinction. For second-language (L2) learners, quantity is often difficult to master if speech-sound duration plays a less...