stress refers to the degree of force used in producing a syllable. all of the words in lexicon regardless of the apparent structure and the number of their syllables have their own stress. given that the regularities governing stress assignment in persian depend on the type of lexical category and that persian speakers have a tendency to assign stress at the end of words, the goal of the presen...

This study aimed to find out whether English major students who had basic knowledge of Linguistics are able assign word stress two-syllable, three-syllable and four-syllable words correctly, there is a significant correlation between their competence in recognizing producing stress, determine the factors affecting recognition production. The participants were 14 second year Linguistics. data co...

PURPOSE Vocalization development has not been studied thoroughly in infants with early-identified hearing loss who receive hearing aids in the 1st year of life. This study sought to evaluate the relationship between auditory sensitivity and prelinguistic vocalization patterns in infants during the babbling stage. METHOD Spontaneous vocalizations of 15 early-identified infants with varying deg...

OBJECTIVE Temporal acuity in the auditory brainstem is correlated with left-dominant patterns of cortical asymmetry for processing rapid speech-sound stimuli. Here we investigate whether a similar relationship exists between brainstem processing of rapid speech components and cortical processing of syllable patterns in speech. METHODS We measured brainstem and cortical evoked potentials in re...

This report describes an acoustic analysis of the speech of persons with dysarthria. Sentence-based vs. word-based syllable rate and examples of deviant articulation patterns are presented. Implications for speech recognition systems are discussed.

Successful linguistic processing requires efficient encoding of successively-occurring auditory input in a time-constrained manner, especially under noisy conditions. In this study we examined the early neural response dynamics to rapidly-presented successive syllables in schizophrenia participants and healthy comparison subjects, and investigated the effects of noise on these responses. We use...

Starting from a corpus of German spontaneous speech, the phonetic realisations of the two KIM categories medial and late peak were investigated in prenuclear position. The results show that, for both categories, the onset of the rising F0 movement (L) is comparably aligned around the accented-syllable onset, whereas the F0 maximum (H) is independently aligned and predominantly located before th...

Rhythm in terms of the modulation of syllable durations represents an information-bearing feature of verbal utterances contributing both to the meaning of a sentence (linguistic prosody) as well as a speaker's emotional expression (affective prosody). In order to delineate the neural structures subserving rhythmic shaping of speech production, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was pe...

Recordings of careful readings and unscripted monologues in Swedish and Spanish were auditorily and acoustically analyzed to test the hypothesis that temporal equalization of syllable-sized units typically occurs in casual as opposed to elaborated speaking styles. Results indicated 1) that durations and standard deviations appearing in unscripted Swedish tended to resemble those in Spanish, 2) ...

In this paper, we discuss two distinct data sets. The first relates to the so-called allophonic process of closed-syllable laxing in Québec French, which targets final (stressed) vowels even though these vowels are arguably syllabified in open syllables in lexical representations. The second is found in the forms produced by a first language learner of European French, who displays an asymmetry...