The purpose of this study was to compare the number of testing sessions required to achieve consistent 1 repetition maximum (1RM) strength measurements in untrained old and young women. Consistency of measurement was defined as consecutive 1 RM strength measures that increased by 1 kg or less. Untrained old (n = 6, age 66 +/- 5 years) and untrained young (n = 7, age 23 +/- 4 years) women were r...

Frication of stops occurs when a phonemic stop is produced with incomplete closure such that it is effectively reduced to a fricative. This is a typical connected speech process in dialects of British English, and has also been observed in Australian English. The present study examines patterns of frication of the voiceless stops /k/ and /p/ in Australian English produced by a group of male spe...

The progressive offglide reduction of / / and /e / or onglide reduction of /i / in Australian English is the major focus of this study. This paper examines, using synthetic speech tokens, the patterns of vowel perception of female and male speakers of Australian English in (approximately) 1990 and 2007. The relationship between production and perception in 2007 is also examined. This paper prov...

This paper reports our finding of the use of a proposed biological code – the size code in anger and joy speech. In searching for explanations for an F0 peak delay phenomenon related to angry speech that cannot be accounted for by known articulatory constraints, we hypothesized that the delay was due to the lowering of the larynx to exaggerate body size, a biological code known to be used by an...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of various loads on the force-time characteristics associated with peak power during the hang high pull (HHP). Fourteen athletic men (age: 21.6 ± 1.3 years; height: 179.3 ± 5.6 cm; body mass: 81.5 ± 8.7 kg; 1 repetition maximum [1RM] hang power clean [HPC]: 104.9 ± 15.1 kg) performed sets of the HHP at 30, 45, 65, and 80% of their 1RM HPC....

In human perception, the availability of context enhances recognition and renders it more robust to noise. Even if not all phonemes in a word (or words in a sentence etc.) are correctly perceived, humans can fill in missing parts with the help of cues from the surrounding speech parts. This was proven in studies on human speech perception where recognition of words in sentences under noise was ...