Background: According to previous studies, most of the speech recognition disorders in older adults are the results of deficits in audibility and auditory temporal resolution. In this paper, the effect of ageing on timecompressed speech and auditory temporal resolution by word recognition in continuous and interrupted noise was studied. Methods: A time-compressed speech test (TCST) w...

This study investigates acoustic correlates of prominence in Lizu (Tibeto-Burman). has been argued to have a hybrid prosodic system combining lexical tone on monosyllabic words and patterns with stress-like tonal characteristics polysyllabic words, although empirical evidence is lacking. presents an investigation the pitch disyllabic Kala variety (HL, HH, LH). Using parameters duration, intensi...

Abstract While most English words are multisyllabic, research on literacy acquisition has tended to focus early of monosyllabic words. The processes involved in multisyllabic word reading and spelling middle childhood likely differ from those spelling. current paper examines the contributions morphological awareness (MA; derivational morphemes), prosodic sensitivity (sensitivity lexical stress)...

Much of the power of neural network modeling for language use and acquisition derives from a reliance on statistical regularities implicit in the phonological properties of words. Researchers have devised several methods for representing the phonology of words, but these methods are often either unable to represent realistically sized lexicons or inadequate in the ways they represent individual...

The present investigation evaluated language-disordered children's metalinguistic awareness of words, syllables, and sounds. Subjects were 15 language-disordered children matched for mental age to 15 normally developing children and for language age to another 15 normally developing children. In the first task, children were asked to divide sentences, bisyllabic words, and monosyllabic words in...

OBJECTIVE The development of a test of virtual speech intelligibility in noise that enables assessment in typical, everyday listening situations. To eliminate extraneous confounding factors, digital signal processing was incorporated to simulate listening environments and source locations and allow presentation of stimuli via earphones. DESIGN Source-to-eardrum transfer functions measured on ...

This study reports on an investigation into the coarticulation patterns of a set of young adult male monozygotic (identical) twins, based on a speech corpus of monosyllabic words. The monosyllabic words were of the structure CVC, and were chosen to represent a variety of consonantal and vowel contexts. Coarticulation patterns were investigated by deriving F2 locus equations [e.g., 9, 10, 11] an...

BACKGROUND frequency compression. AIM to evaluate the index of speech recognition (IPRF) using frequency compression in three different ratios. METHODS monosyllabic words were recorded using an algorithm of frequency compression in three ratios: 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, generating three lists of words. Eighteen listeners accomplished the IPRF using the modified words. They were subdivided in two grou...

Previous research has identified robust effects on segmental production of lexical factors like word frequency, predictability or neighborhood density. One question that remains unanswered is whether such lexical effects hold also at the suprasegmental level. This study investigates whether lexical factors such as usage frequency affect tone production in Cantonese. We recorded Cantonese monosy...

Disyllabic Norwegian words characteristically have an initial syllable which is stressed and heavy and a final syllable which is unstressed and light. Adopting a moraic theory of syllabic representation, the weight of the initial syllable can be realized either with a bimoraic vowel or with a monomoraic vowel followed by a moraic consonant. Monosyllabic words also show variation in the length o...