Nonword repetition (NWR) tasks have become popular in recent years as measures of phonological short term memory (PSTM) in research settings, and as potential markers of language impairment in clinical settings. This has increased interest in the subskills that potentially NWR performance. The current study investigated the influence of PSTM, vocabulary skills, articulatory output skills, liter...

The influence of different relative intensities on power output was investigated in the present study in order to identify the optimal load that maximizes power output during the hang power clean. Fifteen men (age: 22.1 +/- 2.0 years, height: 180.1 +/- 6.3 cm, and body mass: 89.4 +/- 14.7 kg) performed the hang power cleans on a forceplate at 30-90% of one repetition maximum (1RM). Peak power w...

On-line accommodation to an interlocutor is often cited as an explanation for phonetic variation. Prosodic evidence for speakers’ accommodation was investigated in a task that was expected to favor modification: giving directions to a nonnative interlocutor, compared to the same task with a native interlocutor. Ten native speakers of French were recorded in spontaneous conversation in the two c...

The speech register used by adults with infants and young children, known OS motherese. is linguisticolly simplified and characterized by high pitch ond exoggerated intonation. This study investigated infant selective listening to motherese speech. The hypothesis tested wos that infants would choose to listen more often to motherese when given the choice between o variety of noturof infontdirec...

In order to examine potential acoustic cues for politeness in Japanese speech, F0 and temporal aspects of polite and casual utterances of two question sentences spoken by 6 male native speakers were acoustically analysed. The analysis showed that F0 movement of the ®nal part of utterances and speech rate of utterance were consistently di€erently used in these di€erent speaking styles across all...

Speech is generally looked upon as a succession of events in the time domain and analyzed frame by frame, while ignoring the fact that speech is dynamic. In the present paper, evidence in support of the dynamic nature of speech and dynamic invariance, as well as their consequences on speech research, are discussed.