Disagreement exists about how speakers monitor their internal speech. Production-based accounts assume that self-monitoring mechanisms exist within the production system, whereas comprehension-based accounts assume that monitoring is achieved through the speech comprehension system. Comprehension-based accounts predict perception-specific effects, like the perceptual uniqueness-point effect, in...

When we hear an utterance, is the orthographic representation of that utterance activated when it is being processed? Orthographic influences have been previously examined in relation to spoken pseudoword processing in three different paradigms. Unlike real word processing, no orthographic effects with pseudowords have been observed in a phoneme goodness ratings task, and there is a mixed outco...

Speech processing by human listeners derives meaning from acoustic input via intermediate steps involving abstract representations of what has been heard. Recent results from several lines of research are here brought together to shed light on the nature and role of these representations. In spoken-word recognition, representations of phonological form and of conceptual content are dissociable....

Many models of spoken word recognition posit the existence of lexical and sublexical representations, with excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms used to affect the activation levels of such representations. Bottom-up evidence provides excitatory input, and inhibition from phonetically similar representations leads to lexical competition. In such a system, long words should produce stronger lexic...

Most studies on Mandarin HTS (HMM-based text-to-speech system) have taken the initial/final as the basic acoustic units. It is, however, challenging to develop a multilingual HTS in a uniformed and consistent way since most of other languages use the phoneme as the basic phonetic unit. It becomes hard to apply cross-lingual adaptation which need map phonemes from each other, particularly in the...

Where American kindergartners are taught letters and letter sounds, German kindergartners are not; where American first and second graders receive an eclectic blend of whole language, whole word and phonics-based approaches, their German counterparts are taught by an intensive synthetic phonics approach. As a probe to the consequences of these pedagogical differences on the emergence of phoneme...

Automatic speech recognition systems apply grapheme-to phoneme transcription (G2P) to model pronunciation of items in the lexicon. General purpose G2P transcriptions are not always accurate, e.g., in a multilingual environment. To improve the transcription quality, G2P transcriptions can be postprocessed using a phoneme-to-phoneme (P2P) converter. This paper discusses the applicability of P2P t...

English vowels are phonologically and orthographically more difficult than consonants when learning to map speech print. We sought determine if teaching young at-risk readers spellers use a visual vowel hand sign system segment spoken words into their component phonemes contributed improved grapheme-phoneme correspondence knowledge, word reading spelling. Twenty-three Year 1 participants were a...

This paper proposes a novel approach to automating the construction of transliterated-term lexicons. A simple syllable alignment algorithm is used to construct confusion matrices for cross-language syllable-phoneme conversion. Each row in the confusion matrix consists of a set of syllables in the source language that are (correctly or erroneously) matched phonetically and statistically to a syl...

This paper presents results of speaker-independent speech recognition experiments concerning acoustic front-ends, models and their structures in car environments. The database comprises 350 speakers in 6 different cars. We investigate whole-word models, contextindependent phoneme models and context-dependent within-word phoneme models. We studied task-dependent (same vocabulary context in train...