• A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant. (wikipedia.org)
  • Perception of consonant voicing tends to improve if the vowel-duration cues are made more obvious by lengthening the vowels before voiced fricatives and shortening them before voiceless fricatives. (hearingreview.com)
  • 6 Application of such durational changes requires knowledge about the voicing characteristics of the consonant prior to the occurrence of the vowel. (hearingreview.com)
  • Adults] subconsciously listen to vowel and consonant sounds in our speech to ensure we are producing them correctly," says study lead author Ewen MacDonald from the Technical University of Denmark . (abc.net.au)
  • These results suggest that birth is not a benchmark that reflects a complete separation between the effects of nature versus those of nurture on infants' perception of the phonetic units of speech. (tomedes.com)
  • 2001. "Chanthaburi Khmer Vowels: Phonetic and Phonemic Analyses. (sealang.net)
  • 2001. "Chantaburi Khmer Vowels: Phonetic and Phonemic Analyses [Khmer Spoken in Thailand]. (sealang.net)
  • So the result differences between experiment 1 and 2 were not due to the effects of other acoustic cues, and more likely due to the phonetic category perception of three syllables. (psych.ac.cn)
  • Recent work on sinewave vowels found that listeners could recognize sinewave speech at the phonetic level with moderate (about 50-55%) accuracy. (bepress.com)
  • Phonemic raised and retracted vowels may be phonetically fronted by certain consonants, such as palatals and in some languages pharyngeals. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the history of many languages, for example French and Japanese, front vowels have altered preceding velar or alveolar consonants, bringing their place of articulation towards palatal or postalveolar. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vowels and consonants show different results for acoustic and articulatory data. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Montgomery and Edge 4 increased the duration of consonants by 30 ms while shortening the vowels to maintain original overall duration. (hearingreview.com)
  • Automatic speech recognition algorithms may be helpful in this context to predict the occurrence of voiced or voiceless consonants. (hearingreview.com)
  • Vowels are white, consonants are red. (techlearning.com)
  • The Relationship Between Identification and Discrimination in Cross-language Perception: the Case of Korean and Thai. (sealang.net)
  • Two years post switch-on the group using the ACE speech coding strategy demonstrated superior results for vowel discrimination in comparison to children using the SPEAK coding strategy. (cun.es)
  • Distinct orthography boosts morphophonological discrimination: Vowel raising in Bengali verb inflections. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The experiments target three different levels of speech processing, namely discrimination, classification, and identification of vowels in three conditions: audio-only, visual-only, and audiovisual. (lu.se)
  • Background/Aims: Evidence from spoken word recognition suggests that for English listeners, distinguishing full versus reduced vowels is important, but discerning stress differences involving the same full vowel (as in mu- from music or museum) is not. (mpi.nl)
  • Speakers vary their speech rate considerably during a conversation, and listeners are able to quickly adapt to these variations in speech rate. (mpi.nl)
  • Second, listeners show adaptation to the natural fast sentences, but performance for this type of fast speech does not improve to the level of time-compressed sentences. (mpi.nl)
  • Using allophonic variation in L2 word recognition: French listeners' processing of English vowel nasalization. (lscp.net)
  • In an offline gating experiment and an online eye-tracking experiment in the visual world paradigm, we compare advanced French learners of English and a control group of L1 English listeners on their processing of English vowel nasalization during spoken word recognition. (lscp.net)
  • Older listeners with hearing loss appear to benefit when the original speech signal is temporally extended by 1.4 times (eg, reducing the speech rate). (hearingreview.com)
  • A matched-guise methodology presents speech tokens with natural and manipulated pre-tonic vowel durations to Argentine listeners in a dialect identification task. (utexas.edu)
  • This paper aims to contribute to our knowledge of the acquisition of nasal vowels by investigating how Belgian Dutch listeners perceive French nasal vowels. (nvfw.org)
  • 2023) What French speakers' nasal vowels tell us about anticipatory nasal coarticulation. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • In this light, the perception of nasal vowels by L2 learners is a particularly interesting subject, because unlike nasalized vowels, nasal vowel phonemes are quite rare in the world's languages. (nvfw.org)
  • In fact, the phonemic contrast between oral and nasal vowels exists in only 22,6 % of them (Maddieson & Precoda, 1990). (nvfw.org)
  • To our knowledge, little research has focused on the perception of nasal vowels by L2 learners (but see e.g. (nvfw.org)
  • In the cross-linguistic task, participants matched French nasal vowels to their closest Dutch equivalents and rated these vowels on a category goodness scale. (nvfw.org)
  • In the second (French) task, they classified French nasal vowels. (nvfw.org)
  • This can be linked to a chain shift affecting nasal vowels of present-day French. (nvfw.org)
  • Moreover, participants rarely categorized French nasal vowels as oral vowels, but displayed asymmetric patterns of confusion between French nasal vowels. (nvfw.org)
  • Marginal contrast in loanword phonology: Production and perception. (lscp.net)
  • Students will learn how to measure a variety of acoustic properties of speech, and how those measurements can be used as a tool to investigate questions in phonology, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Speech perception and phonology. (ens.fr)
  • Phonology versus phonetics in loanword adaptations: A reassessment of English vowels in French. (ens.fr)
  • Four experiments examined the extent to which the phonological similarity effect can be explained as a sublexical speech error. (mpi.nl)
  • Linguistic perception and second language acquisition: explaining the attainment of optimal phonological categorization. (nvfw.org)
  • Fossil markers of language development: phonological 'deafnesses' in adult speech processing. (ens.fr)
  • Current research is focused on uncovering what salient features or properties of extreme vowels give rise to these perceptual asymmetries. (brown.edu)
  • Here, international adoptees from Korea with Dutch as their current language, and matched Dutch-native controls, provided speech production data on a Korean consonantal distinction unlike any Dutch distinctions, at the outset and end of an intensive perceptual training. (mpi.nl)
  • Perceptual learning of time-compressed and natural fast speech. (mpi.nl)
  • Effects of perceptual training on second language vowel perception and production. (nvfw.org)
  • The gesture theory suggests that context effects reflect perceptual compensation of coarticulation, and speech perception implicitly takes into account articulatory dynamics of speech production. (psych.ac.cn)
  • Adoptees' production scores improved significantly more across the training period than control participants' scores, and, for adoptees only, relative production success correlated significantly with the rate of learning in perception (which had, as predicted, also surpassed that of the controls). (mpi.nl)
  • GE participants generally spotted words like gloom more accurately with GE-appropriate than LE-appropriate vowels. (gla.ac.uk)
  • LE participants were less accurate than GE participants to spot words like gloom with GE-appropriate vowels, but more likely to spot embeddings like glue. (gla.ac.uk)
  • We also tested the same speakers on their perception of the emerging [k]~[g] contrast and found that our participants were able to discriminate the emerging contrast well. (lscp.net)
  • Surprisingly, jaw opening did not change production, but the presence of the visual stimulus was found to be a significant factor in participants' vowel advancement for non-English vowels. (macalester.edu)
  • High-density EEG was measured while participants were presented with auditory oddball paradigms (piano tones, vowels) and during a visual GoNoGo task. (frontiersin.org)
  • In four experiments, 56 participants produced isolated vowels while being exposed to pitch-shifted auditory feedback. (lu.se)
  • If either of those cues is missing, their ability to make subtle distinctions between vowel sounds suffers measurably. (brown.edu)
  • Timing cues are important in many aspects of speech processing, fromidentifying segments to locating word and phrase boundaries. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Longer pre-tonic vowel durations are associated with a Córdoba identity, regardless of speaker origin and other linguistic cues. (utexas.edu)
  • These results indicated that context effect differences between stop-vowel syllables mainly originated from differences of critical acoustic cues, and provided support for the auditory-based explanation of context effects. (psych.ac.cn)
  • Individual differences in reading skills along a continuum from poor (dyslexic) to excellent readers, may thus scale with the capacity of the brain regions involved in auditory and visual perception to accommodate reading-induced changes. (frontiersin.org)
  • Linguistic contents are also found to influence the perception of "rikimi" in the conveyance of paralinguistic information. (isca-speech.org)
  • Spoken language, although often characterized as structured configurations of discrete linguistic units, has a continuous substrate in the brain and in the speech signal. (yale.edu)
  • We investigated whether an accent difference in vowel duration affects lexical segmentation and access. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Effect of Vowel Duration and Noise on the Perception of Stop-Glide Continuum. (google.co.in)
  • a consistent characteristic of clear speech is increased pauses between words and increased duration of sounds. (hearingreview.com)
  • The goals of this dissertation are to determine if duration alone (i.e., without intonational changes) is significant in identifying a speaker's Cordoba provenance, and to discover what listener features affect perception. (utexas.edu)
  • At three dates, acoustic data regarding frequency, intensity, voice onset time, triangular vowel space area, diadochokinetic rate, maximum phonation duration, and pause number and mean duration were gathered during the completion of structured speech tasks. (ku.edu)
  • For the new study, Masapollo realized that this asymmetry in vowel production and perception provided a great opportunity to determine which visual features matter in distinguishing subtle speech differences. (brown.edu)
  • Beyond regional differences in activation levels, multivariate classification of single trial responses demonstrated that the success with which single speakers and vowels can be decoded from auditory cortical activation patterns depends on task demands and subject's behavioral performance. (jneurosci.org)
  • When speaking French, their articulation of "oo" is produced with more visible lip protrusion and tongue positioning than when making the same vowel sound in English. (brown.edu)
  • Rounded front vowels are typically centralized, that is, near-front in their articulation. (wikipedia.org)
  • In articulation, fronted vowels, where the tongue moves forward from its resting position, contrast with raised vowels and retracted vowels. (wikipedia.org)
  • Central vowel Back vowel List of phonetics topics Relative articulation Tsur, Reuven (February 1992). (wikipedia.org)
  • She has been a speech language pathologist for 7 years with a focus in language and articulation processes in the pediatric setting. (wpunj.edu)
  • Understand the relationship between articulation, acoustic signal, and perception of speech sounds. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • The New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NJSHA) is pleased to announce Ne w Jersey as one of the recipients of the 2023 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) State Grant. (wpunj.edu)
  • Gabay Y. (2023) Internal Cognitive Load Differentially Influences Acoustic and Lexical Context Effects in Speech Perception: Evidence From a Population With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • While these directional effects may seem like a quirky instinct, they reflect a universal bias favoring vowels produced with extreme articulatory maneuvers. (brown.edu)
  • Although research has suggested that audio-visual speech perception is linked to articulatory movements in adults, no studies have examined this link in infants. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • We used single-trial fMRI and analyzed cortical responses collected while subjects listened to the same speech sounds (vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/) spoken by different speakers (boy, girl, male) and performed a delayed-match-to-sample task on either speech sound or speaker identity. (jneurosci.org)
  • Multiple Spoken Language Technologies (SLT) such as speech recognition and text-to-speech conversion are integrated in our system. (researchgate.net)
  • This study investigates the perception of vowel lengthening in the tonada cordobesa, a feature of the Spanish spoken in Córdoba, Argentina. (utexas.edu)
  • Univariate analyses showed a task-specific activation increase in the right superior temporal gyrus/sulcus (STG/STS) during speaker categorization and in the right posterior temporal cortex during vowel categorization. (jneurosci.org)
  • Speaker/vowel classification relied on distinct but overlapping regions across the (right) mid-anterior STG/STS (speakers) and bilateral mid-posterior STG/STS (vowels), as well as the superior temporal plane including Heschl's gyrus/sulcus. (jneurosci.org)
  • Bosker H.R. (2022) Encoding speech rate in challenging listening conditions: White noise and reverberation. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • This suggests that sensorimotor information is directly implicated in audio-visual speech processing in infants. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • However, recent research suggests that the sense of agency is flexible and thus in some contexts we may feel like we produced speech that was not actually produced by us. (lu.se)
  • This suggests that pitch awareness is not solely based on a prearticulatory representation of intended speech or on a sensory prediction, but also on sensory feedback. (lu.se)
  • as bilabial or labiodental) to investigate heritage Spanish speakers' social perceptions. (benjamins.com)
  • Alvin Liberman and his colleagues figured the solution was to isolate the "phonemes," the ostensible beads-on-a-string equivalent to movable type that linguists thought existed in the acoustic speech signal. (the-scientist.com)
  • That's because, as most speech scientists agree, there is no such thing as pure phonemes (though some linguists still cling to the idea). (the-scientist.com)
  • Discrete phonemes do not exist as such in the speech signal, and instead are always blended together in words. (the-scientist.com)
  • Several models have been proposed to study the production and/or perception of non-native phonemes by L2 learners (cf. (nvfw.org)
  • For example, extracting phonemic categories requires a grouping of auditory features along the relevant dimension (e.g., formants of a vowel) independently of variations in other dimensions (e.g., fundamental frequency [F0] of a speaker's voice). (jneurosci.org)
  • It turns out that this asymmetry plays out between French and English, being manifest in the bilingual speech of many Canadians. (brown.edu)
  • Without the cue of motion, the results showed, the asymmetry of French-English or English-French ordering no longer occurred, suggesting that motion is a key component in this instinct of vowel perception. (brown.edu)
  • That, in turn, could apply to the design of more intelligible online avatars and physical robots, and could even improve computer recognition of human speech and enhance communication devices for the hearing impaired. (brown.edu)
  • The Waveform Model of Vowel Perception and Production has been developed into an automatic speech recognition algorithm achieving greater than 99 percent accuracy. (speechtechmag.com)
  • Waveform Communications is developing a speech recognition product that compares how people produce vowel sounds to zero in on brain injuries. (speechtechmag.com)
  • Speech Recognition During Follow-Up of Patients with Ménière's Disease: What Are We Missing? (cun.es)
  • Children using the ACE speech coding strategy demonstrate more rapid progress in improved speech perception ability initially, however 2 years post switch-on, no significant difference in performance on open-set speech recognition tests can be noted irrespective of the strategy in use. (cun.es)
  • This type of compression is helpful when the listener has poor speech recognition for uncompressed speech and the background noise is modulated. (hearingreview.com)
  • 1-4 The second important consideration is that there is no consistency in findings on other outcomes than audibility of high frequency speech sounds, including speech recognition in quiet and noise, subjective measures, sound quality, and listener preferences. (hearingreview.com)
  • Because speech is more than just sound, researchers set out to ascertain the exact visual information people seek when distinguishing vowel sounds. (brown.edu)
  • The vowel sounds in her speech are the loudest units and the fetus locks onto them,' says Patricia Kuhl, from the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at the University of Washington. (tomedes.com)
  • Some of the gaps between speech sounds are reduced with this particular approach in order to allow the output from the hearing aid to keep up with the input. (hearingreview.com)
  • For adults, numerous studies have demonstrated modest improvement in audibility of some high frequency speech sounds in limited experimental conditions for individuals with varying hearing loss severity. (hearingreview.com)
  • So, if toddlers do not automatically monitor their own speech productions for accuracy as adults and young children do, how do they learn to produce the sounds used in their language community? (abc.net.au)
  • She also notes that the vowel sounds 'a' and 'e' tested in the study are very similar and change across dialects. (abc.net.au)
  • The perception of speech sounds is affected by neighboring speech or nonspeech context. (psych.ac.cn)
  • Experiment 3 used sine-wave speech (SWS) of /pa/, /pi/, and /pu/ as context sounds. (psych.ac.cn)
  • Sine-wave speech modeled all formant trajectories of speech sounds. (psych.ac.cn)
  • This course unit is a hands-on exploration of the production and perception of speech sounds, with a focus on experimental methodology. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • The main concepts employed in the acoustic analysis of speech sounds. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Speech error analyses showed that errors were better described as phoneme rather than item ordering errors. (mpi.nl)
  • We conducted acoustic, electroglottographic (EGG) and paralinguistic analyses on speech segments including "rikimi", extracted from spontaneous dialogue speech data. (isca-speech.org)
  • Spectral analyses show that parameters related with spectral tilt are effective to identify part of the "rikimi" segments, but fail when vowels are nasalized. (isca-speech.org)
  • inproceedings{ishi10_speechprosody, author={Carlos T. Ishi and Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita}, title={{Acoustic, electroglottographic and paralinguistic analyses of "rikimi" in expressive speech}}, year=2010, booktitle={Proc. (isca-speech.org)
  • In fact, spondee-in-noise and vowel perception scores were significantly better with the conventional hearing aid compared to the frequency-compression hearing aid after 2 months of use. (hearingreview.com)
  • Research in speech perception has shown that infants have early capacities to discriminate consonantal and vocalic contrasts and quickly become attuned to the properties of their native language. (anr.fr)
  • PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] - For all talkers, except perhaps the very best ventriloquists, the production of speech is accompanied by visible facial movements. (brown.edu)
  • Early development of abstract language knowledge: Evidence from perception-production transfer of birth-language memory. (mpi.nl)
  • Thus the adoptees' retained knowledge of Korean transferred from perception to production and appears to be abstract in nature rather than dependent on the amount of experience. (mpi.nl)
  • A number of research disciplines are identified as being relevant for the subject of this thesis which are concerned with human speech perception and production. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Various models of speech perception and production are presented. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Relevant work on exemplar theory and speech perception and production models are discussed. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Implications for second-language speech perception and production research are discussed. (icphs2007.de)
  • Dependent measures from working memory (recall accuracy) and language production (speech errors) fields were used. (mpi.nl)
  • The distribution of speech errors was comparable across all experiments and exhibited syllable-position effects, suggesting an important role for production processes. (mpi.nl)
  • How humans process speech has also been molded by the physiology of speech production. (the-scientist.com)
  • In the human body, the lungs serve as the bellows, providing the source of acoustic energy for speech production. (the-scientist.com)
  • We explored the status of this contrast in Dutch speakers in both production and perception. (lscp.net)
  • This study analyzes whether there should be a visual component to a model of speech perception and production by comparing the jaw opening, advancement, and rounding of American English and non-English vowels in the presence and absence of a visual stimulus. (macalester.edu)
  • This may be explained by lip rounding, but requires further research in order to develop a full understanding of the impact of visual input on vowel production to be used in teaching and learning languages. (macalester.edu)
  • Does perception precede production in the initial stage of French nasal vowel quality acquisition by Japanese learners? (nvfw.org)
  • But McLeod says the difference in speech patterns may not only be linked to the two-year-olds' ability to perceive their own production. (abc.net.au)
  • A substantial number of children (approximately 20%) who undergo cleft palate repair develop a complex speech production disorder. (medscape.com)
  • no language is known to contrast front and near-front vowels based on backness alone. (wikipedia.org)
  • I conclude that heritage speakers' sociophonetic perception in their home language attests to a rich inner world often overlooked by prescriptive forces. (benjamins.com)
  • Stress effects in vowel perception as a function of language-specific vocabulary patterns. (mpi.nl)
  • Important methods and research approaches using simulation technology for the study of human speech can also be found in natural language processing and speech signal processing as well as in areas of computer science such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Reading acquisition reorganizes existing brain networks for speech and visual processing to form novel audio-visual language representations. (frontiersin.org)
  • Dr. Jim Tsiamtsiouris has been elected to serve a 3-year term on the New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NJSHA) Board of Directors. (wpunj.edu)
  • NJSHA is the premier state professional organization that empowers audiologists, speech-language pathologists, speech, language and hearing scientists and future professionals by providing resources and support to its members and those they serve through professional development, advocacy, public awareness, and mentoring. (wpunj.edu)
  • Professor Miranda Van Dunk is an instructor of speech language pathology at William Paterson University. (wpunj.edu)
  • Miranda was recognized for her work as a Speech-Language Specialist at Packanack Elementary School in Wayne, NJ. (wpunj.edu)
  • Christina Darius (2015) completed her Doctorate in Speech-Language Pathology (SLPD) from the Nathan Weiss Graduate College at Kean University in May 2021. (wpunj.edu)
  • Language experience in second language speech learning: in honor of James Emil Flege. (sealang.net)
  • Thus, gender-fair language increases the prominence of women in the mind, but has varying effects on consistency, i.e., the match with default perceptions of real-world gender ratios. (lscp.net)
  • Children using the ACE speech coding strategy were additionally evaluated using the MAIS and MUSS language scales. (cun.es)
  • Nonnative and second-language speech perception: Commonalities and complementarities. (nvfw.org)
  • In: R. Wayland (Ed.), Second language speech learning: theoretical and empirical progress (pp. 3-83). (nvfw.org)
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience: Speech and Language. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Resolving these questions would improve the scientific understanding of how we perceive speech, Masapollo said. (brown.edu)
  • Through a series of experiments at Brown and McGill University in Montreal reported in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , Masapollo and colleagues found that when people perceive speech, they closely watch the form and motion of the lips. (brown.edu)
  • While there have been many studies in the past that have looked at an infant's ability to hear, this study offers a new insight into how young children perceive their speech, says speech pathologist Professor Sharynne McLeod, an ARC Future Fellow from Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. (abc.net.au)
  • This study offers interesting insights into the child's ability to perceive [speech] because the four-year-olds were showing quite clear patterns but the two-year-olds were not," says McLeod, who was not involved in the research. (abc.net.au)
  • First, in Tokyo Japanese, high vowel devoicing can trigger the categorical loss of a lingual gesture for the vowel and subsequent reorganization of gestural coordination (Shaw & Kawahara 2018, 2021). (yale.edu)
  • Infants' looking patterns were biased away from audiovisually matching faces when they made lip movements similar to those needed to produce the heard vowel. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • The task dependency of speaker/vowel classification demonstrates that the informative fMRI response patterns reflect the top-down enhancement of behaviorally relevant sound representations. (jneurosci.org)
  • A multivariate test on the whole vowel system did not find a significant cross-dialect difference in formant values. (icphs2007.de)
  • Chapter 4 presents experiments on speech segmentation and addresses the question how humans can achieve this faculty based on the available information. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • The focus of the experiments in chapter 5 is the investigation of acoustic speech recordings in comparison to corresponding articulographic recordings. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • The measured parameters will be used as reference material to define visual salience in the forthcoming perception experiments. (lu.se)
  • The planned experiments are centered around vowel perception in Swedish learners of German and German learners of Swedish. (lu.se)
  • Appropriately, cleft surgeons have a concerted interest in postoperative outcomes, especially the occurrence and treatment of cleft-related speech dysfunction. (medscape.com)
  • With Chinese stop-vowel-stop sequences as materials, the aim of the present study was to test the explanatory power of several theories for context effects, and explored the internal mechanisms of context effects in Chinese stop-vowel-stop sequences. (psych.ac.cn)
  • Another question that's debated is whether speech processing is special and distinct from other kinds of auditory processing since it is not purely an acoustic signal. (brown.edu)
  • The unmatched performance of the Waveform Model was accomplished with measurements made at one point in time per vowel equivalent to less than 1 percent of the complete WCMSM dataset analyzed. (speechtechmag.com)
  • Rikimi" is a "pressed-type" voice quality that appears in Japanese conversational speech for expressing paralinguistic information related to emotional or attitudinal behaviors of the speaker. (isca-speech.org)
  • Vishakha W. Rawool, PhD, is a member of the faculty in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa. (hearingreview.com)
  • Speech Pathology Australia has a fact sheet that outlines speech milestones for toddlers and young children . (abc.net.au)
  • Members of disciplines as seemingly disparate as plastic surgery and speech pathology coordinate services to establish comprehensive management goals. (medscape.com)
  • These groups offer a particularly interesting scenario since German learners of Swedish encounter an additional vowel phoneme, whereas Swedish learners of German must adjust to a vowel system with one less vowel category compared to their L1. (lu.se)
  • This research examines the concept of intergenerational choral singing as a behavioral intervention for speech and voice in Parkinson's Disease (PD). (ku.edu)
  • My research focuses on the modulation of speech processing in the L2 by visual information from the speaker's mouth and lips. (lu.se)
  • In experiment two, volunteers at McGill tried to distinguish "oo" speech using just still images of the same speaker. (brown.edu)
  • Researchers report the motion and configuration of a speaker's lips are key when it comes to others being able to distinguish between vowels in speech. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The goal of this paper is to determine how this difference in the lexicon influences the perception of stressed versus unstressed vowels. (mpi.nl)
  • Peninsula speakers vowels were shorter, had lower fundamental frequency, and were more likely to be produced with creaky voice. (icphs2007.de)
  • Six children expressed the same strategy in speech and gesture, and 6 expressed different strategies. (mpi.nl)
  • Vowels in different syllabic contexts are investigated in the second experiment. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • A comparison was made of the acoustic properties of Spanish vowels produced by monolingual Spanish speakers from Spain and Peru. (icphs2007.de)
  • Control tokens produced by speakers from Buenos Aires and Tucumán confirmed this effect: these tokens, when manipulated to have a longer pre-tonic vowel, induced the perception of a Córdoba identity. (utexas.edu)
  • With respect to speech, this presumes that speakers have a stable prearticulatory representation of their own speech. (lu.se)