Language and Speech
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Speech Repetition Abilities in Children Who Differ in Reading Skill
Language and Speech - Tập 32 Số 2 - Trang 109-122 - 1989
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
speed of re...
Pronoun Resolution in Skilled and Less-Skilled Comprehenders: Effects of Memory Load and Inferential Complexity
Language and Speech - Tập 29 Số 1 - Trang 25-37 - 1986
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
them to refe...
Processing Time, Accent, and Comprehensibility in the Perception of Native and Foreign-Accented Speech
Language and Speech - Tập 38 Số 3 - Trang 289-306 - 1995
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.
Response ...
Reactions Toward Varying Degrees of Accentedness in the Speech of Spanish-English Bilinguals
Language and Speech - Tập 20 Số 3 - Trang 267-273 - 1977
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 discrimina...
The Analysis of Low Accentuation in Estonian
Language and Speech - Tập 50 Số 4 - Trang 567-588 - 2007
In Estonian, as in a number of other languages, the nuclear pitch accent is
often low and level. This paper presents two studies of this phenomenon. The
first, a phonetic analysis of carefully structured read sentences shows that low
accentuation can also spread to the prenuclear accents in an intonational
phrase. The resulting sentence contours are used as evidence to evaluate
alternative phonolo...
Phonetic Detail in the Developing Lexicon
Language and Speech - Tập 46 Số 2-3 - Trang 265-294 - 2003
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 familiar
words n...
Phonetic Diversity, Statistical Learning, and Acquisition of Phonology
Language and Speech - Tập 46 Số 2-3 - Trang 115-154 - 2003
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 bottom-up...
Functional Lateralization of Linguistic Tones: Acoustic Evidence from Norwegian
Language and Speech - Tập 29 Số 4 - Trang 389-398 - 1986
A group of five male right-hemisphere-damaged and five male
left-hemisphere-damaged aphasics were recorded repeating a set of three phonemic
tone-contrasted minimal pairs in Norwegian. A narrow-band spectrographic
analysis revealed more impaired tone production (less phono-acoustic
differentiation between phonemic pairs, and longer maximal productions) on the
part of the left-hemisphere group than...
Segment Inventories for Speech Synthesis
Language and Speech - Tập 4 Số 1 - Trang 27-90 - 1961
Speech synthesis may be based on a segmentation of the speech continuum either
into simultaneous components or into successive time segments. The time segments
may be of varying size and type: phonemes, phoneme dyads, syllable nuclei and
margins, half-syllables, syllables, syllable dyads, and words. In order to
obtain an estimate of the size of the segment inventory for each type of
segment, a pho...
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