The syllable serves as an important interface between the lowerlevel (phonetic and phonological) and the higher-level (morphological and lexical) representational tiers of language. It has been demonstrated that reliable segmentation of spontaneous speech into syllabic entities is useful for speech recognition. An automatic method is described for delineating the temporal boundaries of syllabic...

BACKGROUND investigation of linguistic and cognitive skills in readers and nonreaders. AIM to evaluate the performance of readers and nonreaders in tasks related to several linguistic and cognitive skills and to determine the implication of the results to the clinical practice and to eduaction. METHOD participants of the study were 35 children in the process of alphabetization. The children...

This paper describes a formal approach and a practical learning method for automatically acquiring phonotactic constraints encoded as-nite automata. It is proposed that the use of diierent classes of syllables with class-speciic intra-syllabic phonotactics results in a more accurate hypothesis of a language's phonological grammar than the single syllable class traditionally used. Intra-syllabic...

The tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) state is a common experience, usually coupled with a frustrating feeling caused by the incapability of retrieving a familiar word. It is thought that TOTs occur when the semantic and syntactic information of the word is retrieved but not its phonology. This study aims to further understand the role of phonology in TOT resolution. Specifically, using a syllabic pseudo...

Language production comprises conceptual, grammatical, and word form encoding as well as articulation. This paper focuses on word form or phonological encoding. Phonological encoding in speech production can be subdivided into a number of sub-processes such as segmental, metrical, and syllabic encoding. Each of these processes is briefly described and illustrated with examples from my own resea...

OBJECTIVES Speech intelligibility is strongly influenced by the ability to process temporal modulations. It is hypothesized that in dyslexia, deficient processing of rapidly changing auditory information underlies a deficient development of phonological representations, causing reading and spelling problems. Low-frequency modulations between 4 and 20 Hz correspond to the processing rate of impo...

A discussion on how to handle consonant combinations in the Bantu language Mpiemo, spoken in the the south west border region of the Central African Republic is presented. The question is raised, whether nasal+consonant combinations are adequately analysed as single phonological units or as separate ones. Phonetic, syllabic and morphological aspects are taken into consideration.

Background: It is a well-documented finding that phonemic speech errors in aphasia reflect certain characteristics of their intended targets. However, only few studies have investigated spontaneous speech productions of jargon-aphasic patients, in which lexical targets may be completely unrecognisable (abstruse phonemic neologisms). There is some evidence that these neologisms correspond to the...

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) consistently show poor nonword repetition (NWR) performance. However, the reason for these difficulties remains a matter of intensive debate. Nonword repetition is a complex psycholinguistic task that heavily relies upon phonological segmentation and phonological knowledge, and even lexical knowledge. This study aims at investigating various ling...

Introduction: This research was planned to determine some verbal-auditory skills (verbal-auditory short memory and phonological awareness) that have the closest relationship with speech and language development in 5-year-old children. Method: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 400 children of pre-school classes affiliated to Education and Welfare organizations in Semnan city were select...