Due to limitations of cochlear implant (CI) technology in transmitting fundamental frequency (f0), there is poor perception of lexical tone by CI users. Here simulated cochlear implant audio is used to investigate the role of visual speech information in Mandarin tone discrimination. Results showed that visual information improved tone perception in both Mandarin and Australian English listener...

Cued Speech (CS) is a system of manual cues that combined to the lipread information conveys visually the traditionally-spoken languages at the phonemic level. It i s argued here that exposure to CS allows deaf children to develop accurate phonological representations which can support rhyme judgment, phonological short-term memory, use of grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences in reading and spel...

The phonetic translation of Cued Speech (CS) gestures needs to mix the manual CS information together with the lips, taking into account the desynchronization delay (Attina et al. [2], Aboutabit et al. [4]) between these two flows of information. This contribution focuses on the lip flow modeling in the case of French vowels. Previously, classification models have been developed for a professio...

This paper reports experiments on speech production showing that secondary stress in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) can be best described as phrase-initial prominence cued by greater duration and pitch accent excursion in initial position. It also reports a perception experiment in which clicks were associated to consecutive V-to-V positions in stress groups. Mean click detection RTs are gradient, b...

We investigated the brain systems engaged during propositional speech (PrSp) and two forms of non- propositional speech (NPrSp): counting and reciting overlearned nursery rhymes. Bilateral cerebral and cerebellar regions were involved in the motor act of articulation, irrespective of the type of speech. Three additional, left-lateralized regions, adjacent to the Sylvian sulcus, were activated i...