Speech perception deficits in developmental dyslexia were investigated in quiet and various noise conditions. Dyslexics exhibited clear speech perception deficits in noise but not in silence. Place-of-articulation was more affected than voicing or manner-of-articulation. Speech-perception-in-noise deficits persisted when performance of dyslexics was compared to that of much younger children mat...

Using the phenomenon of duplex perception, previous researchers have shown that certain manipulations affect the perception of formant transitions as speech but not their perception as nonspeech "chirps," a dissociation that is consistent with the hypothesized distinction between speech and nonspeech modes of perception [Liberman et al., Percept. Psychophys. 30, 133-143 (1981); Mann and Liberma...

Holistic processing (HP) is an expertise marker in visual perception; nevertheless, it can be modulated by writing experience (Tso, Au, & Hsiao, 2014). We have recently found that HP also indicates expertise in Cantonese speech perception (Liu & Hsiao, 2014). Nevertheless, Cantonese has a logographic writing system where one syllable corresponds to one character, whereas in alphabetic languages...

The usefulness of teaching pronunciation in language instruction remains controversial. Though past research suggests that teachers can make little or no difference in improving their students’ pronunciation,  current  findings  suggest  that  second  language  pronunciation  can  improve  to  be near  native-like  with  the  implementation  of  certain  criteria  such  as  the  utilization  of...

Neurolinguistic investigations support the dissociation between speech production and speech perception in the case of aphasia. This means that an aphasic patient may be able to understand words and sentences while he is not able to produce them or, he may be able to produce certain linguistic forms properly while he is not able to detect the semantics of verbal utterances. Empirical data, howe...

Before launching into a response to the letter by Aslin, Werker, and Morgan ~2002!, I would like to make clear my belief that the work on infant speech perception has been well executed, and has been critical to the development of general theoretical perspectives on speech perception. I respect and appreciate the contributions of these authors, and consider my own work with children to be a nat...

Speech rhythms guide perception, especially in noise. We recently revealed that percussionists outperform non-musicians in speech-in-noise perception, with better speech-in-noise perception associated with better rhythm discrimination across a range of rhythmic expertise. Here, we consider rhythm production skills, specifically drumming to a beat (metronome or music) and to sequences (metrical ...

This study investigated the effect of intensity on pitch in electric hearing and its relationship to the speech perception ability of cochlear implantees. Subjects were 13 adult users of the Nucleus 22 cochlear implant system, using either the Spectra22 or ESPrit22 speech processor and the SPEAK speech processing strategy. A multidimensional scaling technique was employed. Speech perception was...

A computer-implemented neurofunctional model of speech production is introduced, which is capable of articulating vowels, VC-, and CV-syllables (C = voiced plosives; V = vowels). It will be shown in this paper that this production model is capable of simulating basic effects of auditory and audio-visual speech perception like (i) categorical perception of consonants and vowels and (ii) the McGu...