________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Acoustic characterization of phonologically voiced obstruents in Shanghai dialect In Shanghainese, phonologically voiced obstruents in word-initial, accented position are phonetically voiceless and are distinguished from the others (i.e., voiceless and/or aspirated) mainly by a low tone regi...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Are female and male voices processed equally fast? This study deals with processing time of female and male speech. Several authors showed that vowel identification was more difficult on voices with a high F0 (Ryalls & Lieberman, 1982). Does this have consequences on word processing? Are fem...

L’analyse automatique de la parole représente un intérêt et un potentiel important pour le maintien à domicile des personnes âgées. Elle requiert actuellement l’utilisation de microphones permettant l’enregistrement d’un signal sonore de qualité, nécessaire à la gestion complexe des spécificités acoustiques de la voix des personnes âgées. Toutefois, cette méthodologie pose le problème du passag...

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

Perceived racism contributes to persistent health stress leading to health disparities. African American/Black persons (BPs) believe subtle, rather than overt, interpersonal racism is increasing. Sue and colleagues describe interpersonal racism as racial microaggressions: "routine" marginalizing indignities by White persons (WPs) toward BPs that contribute to health stress. In this narrative, e...