Language and Speech
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Sociology and Political ScienceMedicine (miscellaneous)Linguistics and LanguageSpeech and Hearing
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Processing Time, Accent, and Comprehensibility in the Perception of Native and Foreign-Accented Speech In this study, a sentence verification task was used to determine the effect of a foreign accent on sentence processing time. Twenty native English listeners heard a set of English true/false statements uttered by ten native speakers of English and ten native speakers of Mandarin. The listeners assessed the truth value of the statements, and assigned accent and comprehensibility ratings. ... ...
Tập 38 Số 3 - Trang 289-306 - 1995
Phonetic Diversity, Statistical Learning, and Acquisition of Phonology In learning to perceive and produce speech, children master complex language-specific patterns. Daunting language-specific variation is found both in the segmental domain and in the domain of prosody and intonation. This article reviews the challenges posed by results in phonetic typology and sociolinguistics for the theory of language acquisition. It argues that categories are initiated ... ...
Tập 46 Số 2-3 - Trang 115-154 - 2003
Reactions Toward Varying Degrees of Accentedness in the Speech of Spanish-English Bilinguals Approximately 100 college students were asked to evaluate Spanish-English bilingual speakers on the basis of taped readings of an English text. The speakers were chosen to represent a wide range of accentedness. The relationship between the amount of accentedness heard and the attributed characteristics of the speaker was investigated. The results show that the students made rather fine d... ...
Tập 20 Số 3 - Trang 267-273 - 1977
The Interplay Between Prosodic Structure and Coarticulation In this paper we draw on a linguistic model of prosodic structure and a task-dynamic model of speech gestures to account for the interplay of coarticulation and stress in English. We reinterpret results from two experiments in which articulator movements were recorded for utterances varying in pitch accent placement. In the first experiment, jaw kinematics were studied in post-nuclear una... ...
Tập 36 Số 2-3 - Trang 197-212 - 1993
Phonetic Detail in the Developing Lexicon Although infants show remarkable sensitivity to linguistically relevant phonetic variation in speech, young children sometimes appear not to make use of this sensitivity. Here, children's knowledge of the soundforms of familiar words was assessed using a visual fixation task. Dutch 19-month-olds were shown pairs of pictures and heard correct pronunciations and mispronunciations of familia... ...
Tập 46 Số 2-3 - Trang 265-294 - 2003
Pronoun Resolution in Skilled and Less-Skilled Comprehenders: Effects of Memory Load and Inferential Complexity This paper reports two experiments that investigate skilled and less-skilled compre-henders' ability to understand pronouns. In the first experiment, the less-skilled group made more errors in answering questions about pronoun antecedents than did the skilled group, even when there was a gender cue to the correct referent, and when the clause containing the referents was available for the... ...
Tập 29 Số 1 - Trang 25-37 - 1986
Speech Repetition Abilities in Children Who Differ in Reading Skill A previous study (Brady, Shankweiler, and Mann, 1983) demonstrated inferior speech repetition abilities for poor readers with degraded stimuli. The present study, in contrast, used clear listening conditions. Third-grade average and below-average readers were tested on a word repetition task with monosyllabic, multisyllabic, and pseudoword stimuli. No group differences were obtained on sp... ...
Tập 32 Số 2 - Trang 109-122 - 1989
Lip Positions in American English Vowels Three kinds of data were used in an attempt to determine the parameters of characteristic lip positions in a range of American English vowels: (1) standardized simultaneous frontal and lateral photographs; (2) lateral x-rays; (3) plaster casts of a subject's lips. Among the measurements taken were the following: (1) distance between the corners of the mouth (width); (2) height of the open... ...
Tập 7 Số 4 - Trang 215-225 - 1964
Word Games and Syllable Structure The internal structure of the syllable has been a matter of long-standing debate. Some theories propose a highly articulated tree structure whose topmost constituents are the onset and the rhyme. However, much recent work in phonological theory has adopted a flatter model in which neither the onset nor the rhyme constitutes a constituent. Experiments using the novel word... ...
Tập 38 Số 1 - Trang 77-114 - 1995