Language and Speech articles from September 2008

Language and Speech archives from September 2008

Perception of dialect variation in noise: intelligibility and classification.
September 1, 2008... Abstract Listeners can explicitly categorize unfamiliar talkers by regional dialect with above-chance performance under ideal listening conditions. However, the extent to which this important source of variation affects speech processing...

Vowel aperture and syllable segmentation in French.
September 1, 2008... Abstract The theories of Pulgram (1970) suggest that if the vowel of a French syllable is open then it will induce syllable segmentation responses that result in the syllable being closed, and vice versa. After the empirical verification...

The shape of nuclear falls and their effect on the perception of pitch and prominence: Peaks vs. Plateaux.
September 1, 2008... Abstract This article investigates the perceptual effect of a high plateau in the intonation contour. Plateaux are flat stretches of contour and have been observed associated with high tones in Standard Southern British (SSB) English. The...

The phonetic context of American English flapping: quantitative evidence.
September 1, 2008... Abstract The phonetic context in which word-medial flaps occur (in contrast to [th]) in American English is explored. The analysis focuses on stress placement, following phone, and syllabification. In Experiment 1, subjects provided their...

Horizontal flow of semantic and phonological information in Chinese spoken sentence production.
September 1, 2008... Abstract A variant of the picture word interference paradigm was used in three experiments to investigate the horizontal information flow of semantic and phonological information between nouns in spoken Mandarin Chinese sentences....