The role of speech production mechanisms in difficult speech comprehension is the subject of on-going debate in speech science. Two Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) analyses were conducted on neuroimaging studies investigating difficult speech comprehension or speech production. Meta-analysis 1 included 10 studies contrasting comprehension of less intelligible/distorted speech with more i...

Fifty-one children with language delays, and their mothers, were studied to identify characteristics of the children’s utterances that potentially influence an aspect of maternal linguistic input: expansions. A subset of 33 of these dyads was studied and submitted to sequential analysis to identify the types of child utterances mothers were most likely to expand. Twenty-minute mother-child free...

The conversion method from Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) to ordinary speech based on the statistical voice conversion (NAM-toSpeech) has been proposed towards realization of “silent speech telephone.” Although NAM-to-Speech converts NAM to intelligible voices with similar quality to speech, there is still a large problem, i.e., difficulties of the F0 estimation from unvoiced speech. In order to avoi...

Abstract This article illuminates the definition of Victorian upper-class woman following dominant gender roles and conventions late era in context Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan . Relying on Butlerian analyses sex gender, female subjectivity has been investigated. I have studied two opposing representations related to subjects. The first view subjects concerns representation intelligible-gender...

It has been proposed that the identification of sounds, including species-specific vocalizations, by primates depends on anterior projections from the primary auditory cortex, an auditory pathway analogous to the ventral route proposed for the visual identification of objects. We have identified a similar route in the human for understanding intelligible speech. Using PET imaging to identify se...

This paper addresses two issues in Richard Swinburne’s book Are We Bodies or Souls? I interpret modal argument as an example of a priori synthetic knowledge. thesis that every person possesses “thisness” is compared with Kant’s distinction between the empirical character and intelligible character.