There is a long tradition of experimental research in the field of prosody, as different aspects of speech production and perception related to prosody have often been part of traditional laboratory and phonetics investigation. However, in recent years, the development of a set of laboratory tools to investigate language performance and its neurocognitive basis has prompted a new experimental a...

Research into how speech production and perception are related has a long history. Proponents of the motor theory of speech perception argued in the sixties that speech sounds are perceived in terms of the articulatory features or gestures required to produce those sounds (Liberman et al., 1967; Liberman, 1996). The prediction was that infants, who do not yet produce speech sounds, would have d...

since cochlear implants can now be provided for children before the age of 1 year, the development of a family-centered habilitation program is essential for this age group. the present study was done to investigate the effectiveness of navayesh” auditory habilitation program on communication skills of cochlear implantation candidates. 32 mothers along with their 3-12 months deaf infants partic...

Reliable confidence measures are essential to the basis of decisionmaking for enriching human-machine speech interaction with necessary intelligence in ergonomic dialog management. In addition to a survey of the state of the art in confidence measurement, this work also provides classification of methods derivated from several points of view and describes possible fields of application. The the...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of an intervention strategy on the production of graphic symbol combinations in children with limited speech. Four children between the ages of 6;5 and 10;8 (years;months) with limited speech participated in the study. A single-subject, multiple probe design across three different types of semantic relations was used. Generalization to untrained...