• It is difficult to delimit a stretch of speech signal as belonging to a single perceptual unit. (wikipedia.org)
  • We investigated how flexible behavior can emerge from the interaction between fast perceptual dynamics, which adapt our perception to the environment "as fast as possible", with slower processes like habituation to the stimuli and learning. (mpg.de)
  • Also we used the model-guided parametrization of perceptual behavior to investigate the relations between perception of sounds without a linguistic content and sounds correspondng to speech events. (mpg.de)
  • Lancia, L. Non linear Dynamics of speech perception and perceptual learning: interaction across nested timescales. (mpg.de)
  • speech perception is best conceptualized as an interactive neural process involving reciprocal connections between sensory and motor areas whose connection strengths vary as a function of the perceptual task and the external environment. (talkingbrains.org)
  • This research takes a diachronic approach to perceptual dialectology and uses data collected in 2016-2017 to replicate work done in Michigan in 1985-87 (Preston 1996) to examine possible changes in perceptions. (dukeupress.edu)
  • These findings allow questions about the factors that influence change in perceptions over time and address a gap in diachronic studies in perceptual dialectology. (dukeupress.edu)
  • Human adults and human infants show a perceptual magnet effect for the prototypes of speech categories, monkeys do not. (crossref.org)
  • Investigations of the time course of perception show that these perceptual accommodations occur rapidly, as the acoustic signal unfolds in real time. (oxfordre.com)
  • A research team led by Dr. Yi Du at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered in a study published in Nature Communications that the bilateral LMC in the human brain is causally involved in various phases of speech perception decision-making, and that the LMC engagement is left-dominant and especially helps auditory processing in situations with perceptual challenges. (azolifesciences.com)
  • The findings suggested that the human LMC is causally involved in speech perception as well as speech production since they showed effector-specific involvement of the bilateral dLMC in the perceptual perception of both lexical tone and voicing of plosive consonants. (azolifesciences.com)
  • Does assigning responsibility involve perceptual (or perception-like) capacities? (lu.se)
  • ABSTRACT: In The Rationality of Perception, Susanna Siegel defends the claim that "Both perceptual experiences and the processes by which they arise can be rational or irrational. (lu.se)
  • Perhaps the most notable change in perceptions of Obama is that he is 'dishonest. (gallup.com)
  • It is not easy to identify what acoustic cues listeners are sensitive to when perceiving a particular speech sound: At first glance, the solution to the problem of how we perceive speech seems deceptively simple. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although listeners perceive speech as a stream of discrete units[citation needed] (phonemes, syllables, and words), this linearity is difficult to see in the physical speech signal (see Figure 2 for an example). (wikipedia.org)
  • In this study, we wanted to see whether the abilities of these children to perceive speech in noisy listening environments could be overcome by simply having the talker speak clearly. (acoustics.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • As a result, listeners not only make social evaluations based on a person's language and accent, but may also perceive speech differently based on social identities of speakers. (uoregon.edu)
  • It traces a path through the system and discusses the mechanisms that enable us to perceive speech as a coherent sequence of words. (lu.se)
  • If a specific aspect of the acoustic waveform indicated one linguistic unit, a series of tests using speech synthesizers would be sufficient to determine such a cue or cues. (wikipedia.org)
  • This study explores the role of linguistic structure in speakers' perceptions of vernacular English, i.e. speech used in informal interactions. (jbe-platform.com)
  • During natural speech perception, listeners must track the global speaking rate, that is, the overall rate of incoming linguistic information, as well as transient, local speaking rate variations occurring within the global speaking rate. (mit.edu)
  • Thus, it may be proposed that speech perception is shaped by evolutionary tuning, a preference for certain speaking rates, and predictive tuning, associated with cortical tracking of the constantly changing-rate of linguistic information in a speech stream. (mit.edu)
  • In their conversational interactions with speakers, listeners aim to understand what a speaker is saying, that is, they aim to arrive at the linguistic message, which is interwoven with social and other information, being conveyed by the input speech signal. (oxfordre.com)
  • Across the more than 60 years of speech perception research, a foundational issue has been to account for listeners' ability to achieve stable linguistic percepts corresponding to the speaker's intended message despite highly variable acoustic signals. (oxfordre.com)
  • Theories of speech perception aim to explain how listeners interpret the input acoustic signal as linguistic forms. (oxfordre.com)
  • Much of the research on speech perception has focused on understanding this problem of lack of invariance - how does a given listener categorize a highly variable acoustic signal into discrete units like features, phonemes or words to extract the linguistic information relevant for that utterance? (frontiersin.org)
  • In this study, although the participants reported that a wide range of temporal, non-temporal, and even non-linguistic features of speech influenced how they perceive fluency, it would seem as though, the speed of speech and the percentage of time speaking most strongly influenced how they assessed it. (teslontario.org)
  • The goal of early detection of new hearing loss is to maximize perception of speech and the resulting attainment of linguistic‐based skills. (cdc.gov)
  • But while there is abundant linguistic research on the way that speech varies for the representation of referents as a function of discourse, much less is known about the role that gestures play. (lu.se)
  • as bilabial or labiodental) to investigate heritage Spanish speakers' social perceptions. (benjamins.com)
  • Relying on data obtained from 372 respondents, we explore the social perceptions of two discourse-pragmatic and two morphosyntactic variables. (jbe-platform.com)
  • Furthermore, most (if not all) talkers are able to produce some degree of speech clarity by simply being instructed to "speak as if the listener is hearing impaired. (acoustics.org)
  • In the "conversational" condition the talkers were instructed to speak at their normal pace, as if the listener were someone highly familiar with their voice and speech patterns. (acoustics.org)
  • In the "clear speech" condition, they were told to speak with extra care, as if addressing a listener with a hearing loss or from a different language background. (acoustics.org)
  • I don't know what other folks are studying when they study speech perception, but to me speech perception is best conceptualized as that process that allows a listener to access a lexical concept (~word meaning) from a speech signal. (talkingbrains.org)
  • However, we now know that in the monolingual listener, speech perception is gradient and listeners use this gradiency to adjust subphonetic details, recover from ambiguity, and aid learning and adaptation. (frontiersin.org)
  • However, there is little work investigating the influence of differences in social beliefs among listeners, rather than differences in social identity between speakers, and even less work examining listener perception of volume. (uoregon.edu)
  • Research in speech perception seeks to understand how human listeners recognize speech sounds and use this information to understand spoken language. (wikipedia.org)
  • Speech perception research has applications in building computer systems that can recognize speech, in improving speech recognition for hearing- and language-impaired listeners, and in foreign-language teaching. (wikipedia.org)
  • Speech perception changes over time not only in listeners' moment-by-moment processing, but also across the life span of individuals as they acquire their native language(s), non-native languages, and new dialects and as they encounter other novel speech experiences. (oxfordre.com)
  • A theoretical account should specify the principles that underlie accurate, stable, flexible, and dynamic perception as achieved by different listeners in different contexts. (oxfordre.com)
  • Listeners encounter highly variable speech signals every day. (frontiersin.org)
  • One consequence of this is that during speech perception, listeners discard continuous acoustic information that is irrelevant to category identity and only perceive the category. (frontiersin.org)
  • The purpose of the current investigation was to examine speech-language pathologists' (SLPs') knowledge and perceptions of bullying, with an emphasis on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). (auburn.edu)
  • Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in schools often work with children with ASD and may have victims of bullying on their caseloads. (psu.edu)
  • A nationwide survey mailed to 1000 school-based SLPs, using a vignette design technique, determined perceptions about intervention for bullying and use of specific strategies. (psu.edu)
  • Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition features contributions from the field's leading scientists, and covers recent developments and current issues in the study of cognitive and neural mechanisms that take patterns of air vibrations and turn them 'magically' into meaning. (routledge.com)
  • She says the study also highlights the importance of early intervention by speech pathologists and newborn hearing assessments. (abc.net.au)
  • A role for the right superior temporal sulcus in categorical perception of musical chords. (crossref.org)
  • For much of its history, categorical perception was treated as a foundational theory of speech perception, which suggested that quasi-discrete categorization was a goal of speech perception. (frontiersin.org)
  • We present the Visual Analogue Scaling task which avoids the discrete and binary assumptions of categorical perception and can capture gradiency more precisely than other measures. (frontiersin.org)
  • Theoretically, CP argues that perception-the pre-categorical auditory encoding-is warped by the presence of categories. (frontiersin.org)
  • This article presents a methodological study of an experimental procedure with two tasks of categorical auditory processing for speech. (bvsalud.org)
  • The cocktail party phenomenon: A review of research on speech intelligibility in multiple-talker conditions. (crossref.org)
  • The intelligibility of interrupted speech. (crossref.org)
  • scores.csv: Intelligibility scores for the speech on speech task. (rug.nl)
  • When the 46 students were formed into groups experiencing TTS-like symptoms, or exposure to noise or music, and groups not so "exposed" with closely-matched mean audiometric hearing thresholds, neither the TTS-like symptom group nor noise-exposed groups possessed mean word scores that differed statistically from those of their respective control groups in a psychoacoustic test of speech intelligibility in noise. (cdc.gov)
  • The interaction between competition, learning and habituation dynamics in speech perception, Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 4.1 (2013): 221-257. (mpg.de)
  • Recent experimental research in developmental phonology confirms that within their first year, infants demonstrate language-specific patterns of speech perception discrimination. (aaai.org)
  • Current approaches also differ in their conception of the nature of phonological representations in relation to speech perception, although there is increasing consensus that these representations are more detailed than the abstract, invariant representations of traditional formal phonology. (oxfordre.com)
  • If the acoustics of our speech are slightly different from what we intended, then … we will adjust the way we speak to correct for these slight errors," MacDonald says. (abc.net.au)
  • This YouTube playlist contains a number of short videos (in Swedish) made by Susanne Schötz based on the course literature by Per Lindblad: Talets akustik och perception (the Acoustics and Perception of Speech). (lu.se)
  • Increased cortical surface area of the left planum temporale facilitates the discrimination of temporal speech information in musicians. (crossref.org)
  • Classic developmental work argued that speech categories are formed during the first year of life and that the emergence of these categories and their structure was associated with a sensitive period ( Werker and Tees, 1984 ) (though see McMurray, 2022 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • At the Lund Early Career Workshop 2022: Perception and Responsibility we aim to foster a space in which we can draw out some of these connections. (lu.se)
  • infant perception , process by which a human infant (age 0 to 12 months) gains awareness of and responds to external stimuli. (britannica.com)
  • Cortical signals were recorded with magnetoencephalography (MEG) while participants perceived spontaneously produced speech stimuli at three global speaking rates (slow, normal/habitual, and fast). (mit.edu)
  • Inherently to spontaneously produced speech, these stimuli also featured local variations in speaking rate. (mit.edu)
  • it requires patients to merely indicate when speech stimuli are present. (medscape.com)
  • This impairment is believed to become particularly troublesome when speech perception must take place under noisy listening conditions, such as are likely to be encountered in a typical classroom. (acoustics.org)
  • Can noise-induced temporary threshold shift cause persistent impairment of speech understanding? (cdc.gov)
  • It turns out that this asymmetry plays out between French and English, being manifest in the bilingual speech of many Canadians. (brown.edu)
  • Occupational and speech therapists' perceptions of their role in dental care for children with autism spectrum disorder: A qualitative exploration. (bvsalud.org)
  • If we assume CP as a model of speech perception, this can then explain adult learners: many new L2 distinctions comprise within-category distinctions in the native language (e.g., the English l/r distinction which lies within the Japanese category). (frontiersin.org)
  • Enhancing English language learners' speech fluency is often a key learning outcome in communicative language classrooms. (teslontario.org)
  • So what features of speech do assessors attend to when they make overall judgements about learners' ability to speak fluently? (teslontario.org)
  • To help to answer these questions, this research sought to understand which features of speech influence both assessors' and learners' perceptions of speech fluency. (teslontario.org)
  • We reasoned that if learning impaired children, like hearing impaired adults, can be shown to derive significant benefit from this simple and natural talker-based modification then we may have found a very straightforward means for enhancing the speech perception, and ultimately the learning abilities, of these children. (acoustics.org)
  • Neural bases of categorization of simple speech and nonspeech sounds. (crossref.org)
  • Our goal is to provide bilingualism researchers new conceptual and empirical tools that can help examine speech categorization in different bilingual communities without the necessity of forcing their speech categorization into discrete units and without assuming a deficit model. (frontiersin.org)
  • Because speech is more than just sound, researchers set out to ascertain the exact visual information people seek when distinguishing vowel sounds. (brown.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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • For the most part, the ability to make conscious decisions about phonemes is a useless ability in the context of auditory speech processing, one that is probably only available to literate individuals by the way (I can dig up some refs if anyone is interested). (talkingbrains.org)
  • But don't assume that you are studying anything that is necessarily relevant to what happens in the real world of auditory speech processing. (talkingbrains.org)
  • The investigation of simultaneous interpreters as an alternative approach to address the signature of multilingual speech processing. (crossref.org)
  • 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)
  • We investigated the role of the syllable during speech processing in German, in an auditory-auditory fragment priming study with lexical decision and simultaneous EEG registration. (qmul.ac.uk)
  • The only specific effect of syllabic match for related prime-target pairs was observed in the time window from 200 to 300 ms. We discuss the nature and potential origin of these effects, and their relevance for speech processing and lexical access. (qmul.ac.uk)
  • and the way the cerebral speech motor system (the human head) is involved in auditory processing is similar to that of an archaeologist: matching its stored "motor templates" with the buried syllable representations, top-down assisting the auditory cortex to brush off the dust, and restoring the original content produced by the speaker. (azolifesciences.com)
  • he is also 'monitoring' what he is saying and modulating his speech, unconsciously correlating his various articulatory movements with what he hears and making continual adjustments (like a thermostat, which controls the source of heat as a result of 'feedback' from the temperature readings). (keio.ac.jp)
  • In speech perception, our articulatory motor cortex acts like a denoiser that predicts the upcoming words by simulating the embedded motor gestures. (azolifesciences.com)
  • We tested the speech perception accuracy of a group of 115 school-aged children when presented with sentences that were digitally mixed with broad-band noise. (acoustics.org)
  • First, on average (across both talker, noise level and speaking style conditions) the group of impaired children had poorer sentence-in-noise perception accuracy than the group of normal children. (acoustics.org)
  • This basic finding provides empirical support for the widely held belief that the impaired speech perception abilities of these learning disabled children extends to impaired perception of sentence length utterances when presented in noise. (acoustics.org)
  • Musical experience and the aging auditory system: Implications for cognitive abilities and hearing speech in noise. (crossref.org)
  • Listening to speech amidst noise is facilitated by a variety of cues, including the predictable use of certain words in certain contexts. (princeton.edu)
  • cTBS upon the left dLMC inhibited tone perception in noise and inhibited consonant perception in both quiet and noise, while cTBS upon the right dLMC inhibited consonant perception in noise but not in quiet and had no effect on tone perception, according to psychometric curve slope analyses. (azolifesciences.com)
  • and cTBS upon both left and right dLMC affected response biases for consonant perception in noise. (azolifesciences.com)
  • We designed an experiment in which we asked people to try to comprehend speech in different listening conditions, such as someone speaking amid loud background noise. (researchgate.net)
  • With such a large number of students reporting substantial interference understanding speech in common situations involving competing sounds or talkers, there is clearly a need for further studies to clarify the extent and impact of this unexpected "hidden" hearing loss on a broader population, and on the need for public policy changes concerning what constitutes acceptable occupational and environmental noise exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • Although a number of speech-recognition tests are currently used for different reasons, one of the most common such tests is the hearing in noise test (HINT), which assesses speech recognition in the context of sentences. (medscape.com)
  • In addition to increasing the risk of permanent hearing loss, high noise levels can cause temporary hearing loss, and compromise speech communication and the perception of important signals from the environment. (cdc.gov)
  • In some of the most challenging environments and work situations, the devices must protect hearing against hazardous continuous and impulse noise while maintaining good situational awareness (e.g. warning signal perception, sound localization, speech communication, detection of distant events) within the immediate surroundings and over radio communications. (cdc.gov)
  • Most experiments on "speech perception" ask participants to discriminate pairs of syllables or identify which sound they heard. (talkingbrains.org)
  • Do syllables play a role in German speech perception? (qmul.ac.uk)
  • Since the 1970s, second language researchers have examined a wide variety of temporal measures including speech rate (number of syllables/duration, including silent pauses), articulation rate (number of syllables/duration, excluding silent pauses), mean length of runs (average number of syllables/utterance), the number, length, and location of silent and filled pauses, and the number and type of repairs. (teslontario.org)
  • In fact, the next time you have the pleasure of talking to a speech scientist who regularly employs such methods, pause after a sentence you speak and ask if in the last sentence you uttered the syllable /ba/ or not. (talkingbrains.org)
  • If one could identify stretches of the acoustic waveform that correspond to units of perception, then the path from sound to meaning would be clear. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, there are two significant obstacles: One acoustic aspect of the speech signal may cue different linguistically relevant dimensions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Reliable constant relations between a phoneme of a language and its acoustic manifestation in speech are difficult to find. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, we address the hypothesis that this tracking mechanism is achieved through coupling of cortical signals to the amplitude envelope of the perceived acoustic speech signals. (mit.edu)
  • The coupling between cortical and acoustic speech signals was evaluated using audio-MEG coherence. (mit.edu)
  • 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)
  • The thesis starts with a description of speech patterns. (lu.se)
  • Three papers on bimodal discourse production show that there are intricate relationships between referent accessibility, discourse patterns in speech, and variations in gesture for the representation of referents. (lu.se)
  • As this happens, in spite of the obvious fact that the ears are indeed not attached to the motor system, we concluded that motor systems interact with superior-temporal cortex in the speech perception process. (talkingbrains.org)
  • Even with the increase in familiarity with Obama, the most commonly held perceptions about him have not changed -- namely, that he is 'young and inexperienced' and 'a fresh face with new ideas. (gallup.com)
  • Moreover, fluency judgements may be complicated by a number of contextual factors including individual speech style, the speech task, the speaker's willingness to communicate, and the speaker's familiarity with the topic, situation, and conversation partner. (teslontario.org)
  • In previous work, individuals with ASD have shown little difference in MMN amplitudes to pure and complex tones but diminished P300 amplitudes for speech sounds, suggesting they can hear differences in speech components but cannot attend to them. (uvm.edu)
  • I think you and David did a good job, also, in introducing the "speech recognition" vs "speech perception" distinction to that end. (talkingbrains.org)
  • This seems like just the evidence that you ask for concerning the impact of frontal lesions on speech recognition, and very consistent with results showing impaired speech perception in less naturalistic tasks. (talkingbrains.org)
  • 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)
  • Information about the Human Speech Recognition Group. (illinois.edu)
  • For patients with normal hearing or somewhat flat hearing loss, this measure is usually 10-15 dB better than the speech-recognition threshold (SRT) that requires patients to repeat presented words. (medscape.com)
  • The speech-recognition threshold (SRT) is sometimes referred to as the speech-reception threshold. (medscape.com)
  • An experiment, reminiscent of Brown's "Original Word Game", but specifically designed to test the "cognitive" hypothesis that 8- to 10-month old subjects can exploit nascent speech-referent pairs to bootstrap phonological development is proposed. (aaai.org)
  • The present study is concerned with developing a speech synthesis subcomponent for perception testing in the context of evaluating cochlear implants in children. (edu.pl)
  • Their results revealed that, depending on the context, certain temporal measures of fluency seem to exert a degree of influence over raters' judgements of speech fluency. (teslontario.org)
  • Cortical tuning to the temporal structure of natural connected speech thus seems to require the joint contribution of both auditory and parietal regions. (mit.edu)
  • These findings suggest that cortical tuning to speech rhythm operates on two functionally distinct levels: one encoding the global rhythmic structure of speech and the other associated with online, rapidly evolving temporal predictions. (mit.edu)
  • Detection of differential speech-specific processes in the temporal lobe using fMRI and a dynamic “sound morphing” technique. (crossref.org)
  • Much research on fluency has involved investigating temporal variables of speech in terms of speed, pauses, and repairs. (teslontario.org)
  • and (2) are these features reflected in temporal measures of speech? (teslontario.org)
  • There is strong agreement among students that their university is protecting freedom of expression and robust debate, as well as academic freedom - but growing minorities nonetheless feel free speech is under threat at their institution, with perceptions of a "chilling effect" also increasing, according to a new study. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • The study was designed to allow comparisons with a previous survey carried out in 2019, to reveal trends in attitudes and perceptions since then. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • This study uses EEG to look at auditory perception and involuntary attentional orientation. (uvm.edu)
  • Furthermore, aphasic patients generally exhibit abnormalities in speech perception [9], especially a deficit in phoneme identification, in tasks such as the one used in our study [10]. (talkingbrains.org)
  • In a study based at Brown University, researchers found that the motion and configuration of a speaker's lips are key components of the information people gather when distinguishing vowels in speech. (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)
  • The objective of this study is to investigate how pregnant women seen at the Prenatal Obstetric Clinic of the University Hospital in Santa Maria perceive dental, speech and hearing care. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study investigated the relationship between a listener's ideological beliefs and the way they perceived the volume of non-native ("foreign-accented") speech. (uoregon.edu)
  • In opening a dialogue between theories of perception and responsibility, some basic questions immediately arise. (lu.se)
  • In fact, this is pretty much what I said in my commentary: "there is strong evidence that motor-related systems are not fundamental to speech perception, but instead, simply modulate the process in some way. (talkingbrains.org)
  • Predictive coding and stochastic resonance as fundamental principles of auditory phantom perception. (medscape.com)
  • The research and application of speech perception must deal with several problems which result from what has been termed the lack of invariance. (wikipedia.org)
  • Speech sounds do not strictly follow one another, rather, they overlap. (wikipedia.org)
  • In particular, these children have great difficulty discriminating speech sounds that are minimally distinct. (acoustics.org)
  • simple speech sounds, such as "ba" or "ga. (researchgate.net)
  • Unfortunately, they also reduce speech and other important sounds from the environment, and a compromise in the amount of attenuation provided must be established for optimal protection, safety and work efficiency. (cdc.gov)
  • Differences, in MMN for pure tone and in P300 for complex tone, synthetic speech, and human speech, were found between ASD and TD participants. (uvm.edu)
  • The rationale behind this test came from previous studies that have shown that hearing impaired adults derive great speech perception benefit from naturally produced "clear speech. (acoustics.org)
  • Specifically, on tests that measure speech perception accuracy in terms of the percentage of words in an utterance that are correctly perceived, hearing impaired adults typically show a 17-20% improvement when the talker switches from a conversational to clear speaking style. (acoustics.org)
  • That is, talkers can spontaneously go into a clear speech mode, with no prior training, resulting in dramatic speech perception improvements for hearing impaired adults. (acoustics.org)
  • The thesis examines the way that speech and gestures are used together to represent referents in discourse. (lu.se)
  • A fourth paper on bimodal discourse perception further shows that addressees are sensitive to the presence of gestures when they track referents in connected discourse. (lu.se)
  • Together, the four studies contribute to a deeper understanding of the close relationship between speech and gestures on the discourse level, and highlight the multifunctionality of gestures. (lu.se)
  • The first was methodological: the extensive use of speech continua and forced choice tasks along with a set of theoretical assumptions about how to interpret them. (frontiersin.org)
  • The close copy concept used in this work defines close copy as a function from a pair of speech signal recording and a phonemic annotation aligned with the recording into the pronunciation specification interface of the speech synthesiser. (edu.pl)