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Form-Meaning Relations in Russian Confirmative and Surprise Declarative Questions.

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251314862

Andrei Munteanu, Angelika Kiss

{"title":"Form-Meaning Relations in Russian Confirmative and Surprise Declarative Questions.","authors":"Andrei Munteanu, Angelika Kiss","doi":"10.1177/00238309251314862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251314862","url":null,"abstract":"Declarative questions (DQs) are declarative sentences used as questions. As declaratives, they differ from information-seeking polar questions (ISQs) in their syntax, and as biased questions, they differ from polar questions because they can convey various epistemic stances: a request for confirmation, surprise, or incredulity. Most studies on their intonation typically compare just one subtype to ISQs. In this paper, we present a production study where participants pronounced ISQs, confirmative and surprise DQs, and assertions in Russian. We analyzed the pitch and duration of the target utterances, as these prosodic cues proved to be important in the formal markedness of various biased question types across languages. A principal component analysis (PCA) on the pitch contours shows that DQs bear the same rise-fall contour as ISQs, but its peak falls on the stressed syllable of the last word of the sentence instead of the verb. The intonation of surprise DQs differs from that of confirmative ones in that they also exhibit a slight peak on the subject. Pitch alone is thus enough to distinguish the four utterance types tested. The PCA analysis was also used to identify higher-level trends in the data (principal components), two of which appear to correspond to core semantic properties, namely belief change and commitment. In addition to intonation, speaker commitment also correlates with utterance duration.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251314862"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143743905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sleep Soundly! Sleep Deprivation Impairs Perception of Spoken Sentences in Challenging Listening Conditions.

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251322954

Boaz M Ben-David, Michal Icht, Gil Zukerman, Nir Fink, Leah Fostick

{"title":"Sleep Soundly! Sleep Deprivation Impairs Perception of Spoken Sentences in Challenging Listening Conditions.","authors":"Boaz M Ben-David, Michal Icht, Gil Zukerman, Nir Fink, Leah Fostick","doi":"10.1177/00238309251322954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251322954","url":null,"abstract":"Speech perception, a daily task crucial for social interaction, is often performed after sleep deprivation (SD). However, there is only scant research on the effects of SD on real-life speech tasks. Speech-processing models (FUEL, ELU) suggest that challenging listening conditions require a greater allocation of cognitive resources, while ideal listening conditions (speech in quiet) require minimal resources. Therefore, SD, which reduces cognitive reserve, may adversely affect speech perception under challenging, but not ideal, conditions. The goal of this study was to test this, manipulating the extent of available resources (with/without SD) and task difficulty in three conditions: sentences presented in (a) quiet, (b) background noise, and (c) with emotional prosody, where participants identified the emotions conveyed by the speaker. The performance of young adults (n = 41) was assessed twice, after nocturnal sleep and after a 24-hr SD in three tasks: (a) sentence repetition in quiet, and (b) noise, and (c) emotion identification of spoken sentences. Results partially supported our hypotheses. The perception of spoken sentences was impaired by SD, but noise-level did not interact with SD effect. Results suggest that 24-hr SD reduces cognitive resources, which in turn impairs listeners' ability (or motivation) to perform daily functions of speech perception. Theoretically, findings directly relate SD to speech perception, supporting current theoretical speech models. Clinically, we suggest that SD should be considered in daily clinical settings, e.g., hearing tests. Finally, professions that require shift work, such as health care, should consider the negative effects of SD on spoken communication.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251322954"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143702160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dimensionality Reduction in Lingual Articulation of Vowels: Evidence From Lax Vowels in Northern Anglo-English.

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251320581

Patrycja Strycharczuk, Sam Kirkham, Emily Gorman, Takayuki Nagamine

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Speech Fluency Production and Perception in L1 (Slovak) and L2 (English) Read Speech. 第一语言（斯洛伐克语）和第二语言（英语）朗读中的语音流畅度生成和感知。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-05 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241230899

Lucia Mareková, Štefan Beňuš

{"title":"Speech Fluency Production and Perception in L1 (Slovak) and L2 (English) Read Speech.","authors":"Lucia Mareková, Štefan Beňuš","doi":"10.1177/00238309241230899","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241230899","url":null,"abstract":"Research on fluency in native (L1) and non-native (L2) speech production and perception helps us understand how individual L1 speaking style might affect perceived L2 fluency and how this relationship might be reflected in L1 versus L2 oral assessment. While the relationship between production and perception of fluency in spontaneous speech has been studied, the information provided by reading has been overlooked. We argue that reading provides a direct and controlled way to assess language proficiency that might complement information gained from spontaneous speaking. This work analyzes the relationship between speech fluency production and perception in passages of L1 (Slovak) and L2 (English) read by 57 undergraduate Slovak students of English and rated for fluency by 15 English teachers who are Slovak natives. We compare acoustic production measures between L1 and L2 and analyze how their effect on perceived fluency differs for the two languages. Our main finding is that the articulation rate, the overall number of pauses, and the number of between-clause and mid-clause pauses predict ratings differently in L1 Slovak versus L2 English. The speech rate and durations of pauses predict ratings similarly in both languages. The contribution of our results to understanding fluency aspects of spontaneous and read speech, the relationship between L1 and L2, the relationship between production and perception, and to the teaching of L2 English are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"36-62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140040861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Incorporating Frequency Effects in the Lexical Access of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi. 将频率效应纳入普通话声调 3 Sandhi 的词汇访问。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241260062

Feier Gao, Chien-Jer Charles Lin

{"title":"Incorporating Frequency Effects in the Lexical Access of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi.","authors":"Feier Gao, Chien-Jer Charles Lin","doi":"10.1177/00238309241260062","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241260062","url":null,"abstract":"Mandarin tone 3 sandhi refers to the phenomenon whereby a tone 3 syllable changes to a tone 2 when followed by another tone 3. This phonological process creates a deviation between the tonal forms realized at morphemic (/tone3-tone3/) and word ([tone2-tone3]) levels, posing questions in terms of how disyllabic tone 3 sandhi words are represented and accessed. The current study conducted three cross-modal lexical decision priming experiments to investigate this issue. Experiment 1 manipulated the frequencies of the initial morpheme and whole word, showing that the higher initial-character frequency against the whole word gives stronger activation to the underlying representation and the lower frequency of the initial character leads to stronger activation of the surface tone. Experiments 2 and 3 operationalized the relative frequency of the initial tone 3 morpheme's realization as a sandhi tone, finding that the competition between the two tonal realizations also influences how T3 sandhi words are accessed. Specifically, the more frequently the T3 morpheme surfaces as a T2 allomorph, the less activated the underlying representation becomes in the mental lexicon. Our results indicate a complex interplay between morpheme, word, and the associated tonal representations in the mental lexicon and that these factors co-determine the lexical access of tone 3 sandhi.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"204-228"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141762454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Investigating Linguistic Alignment in Collaborative Dialogue: A Study of Syntactic and Lexical Patterns in Middle School Students. 调查合作对话中的语言一致性：中学生句法和词汇模式研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241234565

Xiaoyi Tian, Amanda E Griffith, Zane Price, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Kevin Tang

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Effects of Speaking Rate Changes on Speech Motor Variability in Adults. 说话速度变化对成人言语运动变异性的影响

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241252983

Emily W Wang, Maria I Grigos

{"title":"Effects of Speaking Rate Changes on Speech Motor Variability in Adults.","authors":"Emily W Wang, Maria I Grigos","doi":"10.1177/00238309241252983","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241252983","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between speaking rate and speech motor variability was examined in three groups of neurotypical adults, n = 40; 15 young adults (18-30 years), 13 adults (31-40 years), and 12 middle-aged adults (41-50 years). Participants completed a connected speech task at three speaking rates (habitual, fast, and slow) where kinematic (lower lip movement) and acoustic data were obtained. Duration and variability were measured at each speaking rate. Findings revealed a complex relationship between speaking rate and variability. Adults from the middle age range (31-40 years) demonstrated shorter acoustic and kinematic durations compared with the oldest age group (41-50 years) during the habitual speaking rate condition. All adults demonstrated the greatest variability in the slow speaking rate condition, with no significant differences in variability between habitual and fast speaking rates. Interestingly, lip aperture variability was significantly lower in the youngest age group (18-30 years) compared with the two older groups during the fast speaking rate condition. Differences in measures of acoustic variability were not observed across the age levels. Strong negative correlations between kinematic/acoustic duration and lip aperture/acoustic variability in the youngest age group were revealed. Therefore, while a slow speaking rate does result in greater variability compared with habitual and fast speaking rates, longer durations of productions by the different age groups were not linked to higher spatiotemporal index (STI) values, suggesting that timing influences speech motor variability, but is not the sole contributor.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"141-161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141086564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Audiovisual Perception of Lexical Stress: Beat Gestures and Articulatory Cues. 词汇重音的视听感知：节拍手势和发音线索。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241258162

Ronny Bujok, Antje S Meyer, Hans Rutger Bosker

{"title":"Audiovisual Perception of Lexical Stress: Beat Gestures and Articulatory Cues.","authors":"Ronny Bujok, Antje S Meyer, Hans Rutger Bosker","doi":"10.1177/00238309241258162","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241258162","url":null,"abstract":"Human communication is inherently multimodal. Auditory speech, but also visual cues can be used to understand another talker. Most studies of audiovisual speech perception have focused on the perception of speech segments (i.e., speech sounds). However, less is known about the influence of visual information on the perception of suprasegmental aspects of speech like lexical stress. In two experiments, we investigated the influence of different visual cues (e.g., facial articulatory cues and beat gestures) on the audiovisual perception of lexical stress. We presented auditory lexical stress continua of disyllabic Dutch stress pairs together with videos of a speaker producing stress on the first or second syllable (e.g., articulating VOORnaam or voorNAAM). Moreover, we combined and fully crossed the face of the speaker producing lexical stress on either syllable with a gesturing body producing a beat gesture on either the first or second syllable. Results showed that people successfully used visual articulatory cues to stress in muted videos. However, in audiovisual conditions, we were not able to find an effect of visual articulatory cues. In contrast, we found that the temporal alignment of beat gestures with speech robustly influenced participants' perception of lexical stress. These results highlight the importance of considering suprasegmental aspects of language in multimodal contexts.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"181-203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11831865/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141321984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Modeling Lexical Tones for Speaker Discrimination. 为辨别说话人建立词汇音调模型

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-27 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241261702

Ricky K W Chan, Bruce Xiao Wang

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English Speakers' Perception of Non-native Vowel Contrasts in Adverse Listening Conditions: A Discrimination Study on the German Front Rounded Vowels /y/ and /ø/. 英语使用者在不利听力条件下对非母语元音对比的感知：对德国前元音/y/和/ø/的辨别研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241254350

Stephanie Kaucke, Marcel Schlechtweg

{"title":"English Speakers' Perception of Non-native Vowel Contrasts in Adverse Listening Conditions: A Discrimination Study on the German Front Rounded Vowels /y/ and /ø/.","authors":"Stephanie Kaucke, Marcel Schlechtweg","doi":"10.1177/00238309241254350","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241254350","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has shown that it is difficult for English speakers to distinguish the front rounded vowels /y/ and /ø/ from the back rounded vowels /u/ and /o/. In this study, we examine the effect of noise on this perceptual difficulty. In an Oddity Discrimination Task, English speakers without any knowledge of German were asked to discriminate between German-sounding pseudowords varying in the vowel both in quiet and in white noise at two signal-to-noise ratios (8 and 0 dB). In test trials, vowels of the same height were contrasted with each other, whereas a contrast with /a/ served as a control trial. Results revealed that a contrast with /a/ remained stable in every listening condition for both high and mid vowels. When contrasting vowels of the same height, however, there was a perceptual shift along the F2 dimension as the noise level increased. Although the /ø/-/o/ and particularly /y/-/u/ contrasts were the most difficult in quiet, accuracy on /i/-/y/ and /e/-/ø/ trials decreased immensely when the speech signal was masked. The German control group showed the same pattern, albeit less severe than the non-native group, suggesting that even in low-level tasks with pseudowords, there is a native advantage in speech perception in noise.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"162-180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11831862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141297207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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