A motor theory of speech perception, initially proposed to account for results of early experiments with synthetic speech, is now extensively revised to accommodate recent findings, and to relate the assumptions of the theory to those that might be…
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In this article we define and illustrate sociophonetic variation within speech, highlighting both its pervasiveness and also the relatively minor role it has played in the development of phonetic and phonological theory. Reviewing evidence from…
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When studying the acoustic speech signal, recording and analysis methods can introduce artifacts that may confound the phonetic properties being studied. A brief review of acoustic aspects of speech, including breath noise, directivity patterns, the…
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The aim of this study was to assess the development of phonemic categorization across a range of phonemic contrasts: /g/-/k/, /d/-/g/, /s/-/z/ and /s/-/integral operator/. More specifically, we aimed to investigate the age at which children achieve…
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The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend the classic study of vowel acoustics by Peterson and Barney (PB) J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 24, 175-184 (1952). Recordings were made of 45 men, 48 women, and 46 children producing the vowels /i,I,e,…
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Spoken languages have been classified by linguists according to their rhythmic properties, and psycholinguists have relied on this classification to account for infants capacity to discriminate languages. Although researchers have measured many…
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In describing the phonemes of a language, phoneticians often find it useful to divide them into voiced and voiceless categories. For stop consonants, some languages are said to utilize aspiration in conjunction with voicing to yield two, three, or…
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The underlying premise of this study was that the two phonetic subsystems of a bilingual interact. The study tested the hypothesis that the vowels a bilingual produces in a second language (L2) may differ from vowels produced by monolingual native…
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(from the preface) This book is organized in the following way. Part I opens with an introductory chapter, Chapter One, in which background assumptions are briefly sketched. In Chapter Two of Part I our major conclusions with respect to phonological…
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Statistical analysis is a useful skill for linguists and psycholinguists, allowing them to understand the quantitative structure of their data. This textbook provides a straightforward introduction to the statistical analysis of language. Designed…
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In this article the author proposes an episodic theory of spoken word representation, perception, and production. By most theories, idiosyncratic aspects of speech (voice details, ambient noise, etc.) are considered noise and are filtered in…
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Infants' speech perception skills show a dual change towards the end of the first year of life. Not only does non-native speech perception decline, as often shown, but native language speech perception skills show improvement, reflecting a…
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Previous research has demonstrated that English /r/ is perceptually more dissimilar from Japanese /r/ than English /l/ is for native Japanese (NJ) speakers. It has been proposed by the Speech Learning Model that the more distant an L2 sound…
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This article presents an account of how early language experience can impede the acquisition of non-native phonemes during adulthood. The hypothesis is that early language experience alters relatively low-level perceptual processing, and that these…
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Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments and morphemes, and intonation gives utterances a further discoursal…
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This paper presents a comparative evaluation of metrics for the quantification of speech rhythm, comparing pairwise variability indices (nPVI-V and rPVI-C) and interval measures (DV, DC, %V), together with rate-normalised interval measures (VarcoV…
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Lab speech has often been described as unnatural, overly clear, over planned, monotonous, lacking of rich prosody, and devoid of communicative functions, interactions and emotions. Along with this view is a growing popularity for directly examining…
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When referring to papers, the Archive interface only requires the sequence number (the first three digits). Citation by sequence number (ex. ROA-) is therefore sufficient for bibliographic purposes as well. The citation should also include reference…
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Relationships between a listener's identification of a spoken vowel and its properties as revealed from acoustic measurement of its sound wave have been a subject of study by many investigators. Both the utterance and the identification of a vowel…
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Phylogenetic algebraic geometry is concerned with certain complex projective algebraic varieties derived from finite trees. Real positive points on these varieties represent probabilistic models of evolution. For small trees, we recover classical…
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