This study aims to describe differences between hyperarticulated and normal speech. Hyperarticulated, or clear speech is produced when addressing to hearingimpaired listeners. It also appears quite often in spoken language systems as the user’s reaction on previous recognition errors. In this paper we present a comparison of the acoustic-phonetic characteristics of normal and hyperarticulated s...

Research has shown that older adults have increased difficulty comprehending foreign-accented speech. As these studies only used behavioral measures, we exploited the fine-grained temporal resolution of EEG/ERPs to examine neural signatures foreign- and native-accented sentence comprehension in adults. Older adults, all normal-hearing monolingual English speakers, listened foreign Chinese-accen...

A child's skill in sentence structure affords a simple criterion of his advancement in the mastery of speech. I wish to propose a division of speech development into four stages dependent on the sentence; 172., single words; early sentences; the short sentence of three to four words and the complete sentence of six to eight words. My reasons are two: Simplicity of determination and the real sig...

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze speech perception in normally hearing adults when listening silence and with different types of noise. Methods: 40 individuals both sexes, aged 18 45 years, participated the study. Speech was assessed Lists Sentences Portuguese test, without a competing noise speech-spectrum, babble, cocktail party A mixed-effects linear regression model 95% confidence interval we...

This paper deals with an acoustic analysis of the sets of Czech sentences uttered by single speaker. The data used in this analysis consists of both emotional and neutral sentences. We have been especially interested in some features which are supposed to influence the perception of speech, such as F0, phoneme duration, formant frequencies or energy. The analyzed sets of sentences were composed...

The present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin Persian. To do so, 195 male and female native Persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item Discourse Completion Task (DCT) to elicit the speech act of offer. Thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that unfamiliar languages sound faster than one's native language. Empirical evidence for this impression has, so far, come from explicit rate judgments. The aim of the present study was to test whether such perceived rate differences between native and foreign languages (FLs) have effects on implicit speech processing. Our measure of implicit rate perception was "no...