Eye movements of Dutch participants were tracked as they looked at arrays of four words on a computer screen and followed spoken instructions (e.g., "Klik op het woord buffel": Click on the word buffalo). The arrays included the target (e.g., buffel), a phonological competitor (e.g., buffer, buffer), and two unrelated distractors. Targets were monosyllabic or bisyllabic, and competitors mismatc...

The present study explores the vocal intensity of turn-initial cue phrases in a corpus of dialogues in Swedish. Cue phrases convey relatively little propositional content, but have several important pragmatic functions. The majority of these entities are frequently occurring monosyllabic words such as “eh”, “mm”, “ja”. Prosodic analysis shows that these words are produced with higher intensity ...

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) was conducte...

In this paper, I investigate the formation and phonological alternations of Korean monosyllabic hypocoristics that are used without a vocative marker. result truncation merging. The study showed inclination to keep second syllable is more pronounced in truncated forms. most common type merging ‘onset 1st + rhyme 2nd syllable’. This illustrates symmetrical base anchoring template, which template...

This study investigates the timing of stød, a type phonological nonmodal phonation related to creaky voice in Danish, relative syllable. Stød-bearing syllables are characterized by high fundamental frequency (F0) and modal at beginning syllable followed nonmodal, often low F0 towards end (the stød phase proper). However, these two phases each other has been debated. To investigate this, through...

A combination of lexical bias and altered auditory feedback was used to investigate the influence of higher-order linguistic knowledge on the perceptual aspects of speech motor control. Subjects produced monosyllabic real words or pseudo-words containing the vowel [ε] (as in "head") under conditions of altered auditory feedback involving a decrease in vowel first formant (F1) frequency. This ma...

The development of clear speech was examined in a cross-sectional study of preschool children aged 3, 4, and 5 years old. Thirty children produced target monosyllabic words with monophthongal vowels in clear and casual speech conditions. Vowel acoustics were measured and adults were asked to provide clear speech ratings on either the vowel or the whole word. The results provided little evidence...

This paper investigates the tonal patterns in the 15 th century from a corpus-based approach, focusing on two historical sources, 日 本 館 譯 語 Rìbĕn kuăn yìyŭ ‘A Wordlist of Chinese-Japanese Phrases’ and 朝 鮮 館 譯 語 Cháoxiān kuăn yìyŭ ‘A Wordlist of ChineseKorean Phrases’. The results suggest that Japanese and Korean are signiifcantly different in the phonetic transcription of low tone in monosyllab...

Perception of dialect variation is well studied with respect to perceptual similarity of talkers based on dialectal markers. This study examines the perceptual distinctiveness of regional vowel variants in light of cross-generational changes in vowel productions. Listeners from two regional dialects of English identified the dialect of the speaker in monosyllabic words (produced by older adults...