In previous studies we have found that the writing of words (typing) is made up of a highly structured time course. Words are written using a course of accelerations and decelerations at certain points within the words. These points correlate highly with the syllabic word structure and also with the morphological structure. At the beginning of these subword units we find significantly higher la...

Functional neuroimaging studies have converged on a core network of brain regions that supports speech production, but the sublexical processing stages performed by the different parts of this network remain unclear. Using an fMRI adaptation paradigm and quantitative analysis of patterns of activation rather than contrast subtractions alone, we were able to identify a set of neural substrates p...

Database designs, if based on the premise that there are about 2000 diphones in English, as stated in many publications and on-line documents, are likely to render a database of diphones, which will fail to capture some important phonological phenomena of English. This paper proposes a TTS database, which is built from diphones inclusive of their syllabic stress; we term these units lexical dip...

Spencer (1991) and Sadler (1997) argue that there are two diierent phenomena that have been grouped together as`contracted auxiliaries'. On the one hand are the syllabic reduced auxiliaries that are unselective in what they attach to. On the other hand, there are nonsyllabic reduced auxiliaries that exhibit lexical idiosyncrasy, stem allomorphy, and word-internal phonological processes. Sadler ...

BACKGROUND Five-year-olds with specific language impairment (SLI) often struggle with mastering grammatical morphemes. It has been proposed that verbal morphology is particularly problematic in this respect. Previous research has also shown that in young typically developing children grammatical markers appear later in more phonologically challenging contexts. AIMS The main aim was to explore...

PURPOSE Adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) often show reduced speech intelligibility, which affects their social interaction skills. This study aims to establish the main predictors of this reduced intelligibility in order to ultimately optimise management. METHOD Spontaneous speech and picture naming tasks were recorded in 36 adults with mild or moderate ID. Twenty-five naïve listene...

Introduction Behavioral tests of auditory processing have been applied in schools and highlight the association between phonological awareness abilities and auditory processing, confirming that low performance on phonological awareness tests may be due to low performance on auditory processing tests. Objective To characterize the auditory middle latency response and the phonological awareness t...

the coalition between terms and their meaning can be as the result of phonological repetition in its speech structure and specific semantic load. this can lead to meaning distinction in choosing words and also meaning association. therefore, literally and syntactically, the phonological level cannot be separated from semantic level. earlier, the phonological association in text has been discuss...