Thirty "new" lists of monosyllabic words were created at the University of Melbourne and recorded by Australian and American English speakers. These new lists and the ten original CNC lists (Peterson and Lehiste, 1962) were used during the feasibility study of the Nucleus Research Platform 8 Cochlear Implant System (Holden et al, 2004). Performance was similar across original and new lists for ...

The Trøndersk dialect of East Norwegian is rather unusual typologically in that it exhibits a tonal contrast (unmarked vs. circumflex) on monosyllabic words [7, 1, 20]. The goal of the current study was to examine this contrast and how it is impacted by sentential focus. Ten speakers of the Trøndersk dialect were recorded reading target monosyllabic words with these accents embedded in sentence...

PURPOSE To analyze speech perception in children with pre-lingual hearing loss with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder users of bilateral hearing aid. METHODS This is a descriptive and exploratory study carried out at the Research Center Audiological (HRAC/USP). The study included four children aged between 8 years and 3 months and 12 years and 2 months. Lists of monosyllabic words, two sy...

Participants' eye movements were monitored as they heard sentences and saw four pictured objects on a computer screen. Participants were instructed to click on the object mentioned in the sentence. There were more transitory fixations to pictures representing monosyllabic words (e.g. ham) when the first syllable of the target word (e.g. hamster) had been replaced by a recording of the monosylla...

Recognition of tone is essential for speech recognition and language understanding. A monosyllabic Thai tone recognition system, which is based on the Ant-Miner algorithm. The system is composed of three main process, fundamental frequency (F0) extraction from input speech signal, analysis of F0 contour for feature extraction, In the F0 feature extraction, the polynomial regression functions ar...

The given work is focused on the principal ways by which new words and expressions enter the Chinese Internet language, the sources of new meanings for old words and phrases; neologisms and chengyu with modified meaning and structure. Some new tendencies in developing of the Chinese Internet language, such as wide use of dialect-originated words, archaic characters and monosyllabic words, are i...

This paper discusses some microvariation found in main clause wh-questions in Norwegian dialects, where V2 (verb-second) word order occurs alongside non-V2. The microvariation is related to the type of wh-constituent present and is argued to represent different stages of a diachronic development (see also Vangsnes 2005, Westergaard 2005). The paper investigates a corpus of spontaneous speech fr...

Under what conditions do lexical factors influence phoneme detection times? Experiment 1 measured subjects’ latencies to detect initial phonemes in monosyllabic and disyllabic words that were preceded by a semantically related or unrelated word. One group of subjects was instructed to pay attention to the semantic relations between words, and a second group was asked to focus on acoustic-phonet...