{"title":"TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE PROTRACTED ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH RHYTHM.","authors":"Hema Sirsa, Melissa A Redford","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Several global and specific rhythm metrics and speech rate were used to characterize differences in the rhythms of 5- and 8-year-olds' spoken English. The results were that only speech rate and the rate-normalized Pairwise Variability Index (nPVI) differentiated between 5- and 8-year-olds' speech. A further result was that the variance in nPVI values was better explained by a specific measure devised to capture patterns of supralexical accenting than by the factor of age expressed in months. These results are taken to suggest that the protracted acquisition of English rhythm may be due in part to the slow rate at which children acquire prosodically conditioned vowel reduction.</p>","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"2011 ","pages":"1862-1865"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4474489/pdf/nihms696989.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33288947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talker Variability in Lexical Access: Evidence from Semantic Priming","authors":"Yu Zhang, Chao-Yang Lee","doi":"10.1121/1.3588905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3588905","url":null,"abstract":"It is usually assumed that lexical representations are abstract and devoid of detailed information about various sources of acoustic variability. This assumption is evaluated in this study by examining the effect of talker variability on the access to word meaning in a short‐term semantic priming experiment. Prime‐target pairs that were semantically related (e.g., king‐queen) or unrelated (e.g., bell‐queen) were produced by the same talker or different talkers. Two interstimulus intervals (50 and 250 ms) were used between the prime and target to explore the time course of semantic priming. The auditory stimuli were presented to 60 listeners, whose task was to judge whether the target was a word or nonword item in English. It was hypothesized that a change in talker between the prime and target would influence the magnitude of semantic facilitation. Analysis of response accuracy and reaction time showed that the magnitude of semantic priming was attenuated in the different‐talker condition, although the effect was obtained only for targets produced by the female speaker. There were no effects involving different interstimulus intervals. These results provided partial evidence that talker variability is encoded in lexical representations and affects lexical access.","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"20 1","pages":"2308-2311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84789788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE INFLUENCE OF NOISE ON PHONOLOGICAL COMPETITION DURING SPOKEN WORD RECOGNITION.","authors":"Susanne Brouwer, Ann R Bradlow","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Listeners' interactions often take place in auditorily challenging conditions. We examined how noise affects phonological competition during spoken word recognition. In a visual-world experiment, which allows us to examine the time-course of recognition, English participants listened to target words in quiet and in noise while they saw four pictures on the screen: a target (e.g. <i>candle</i>), an onset overlap competitor (e.g. <i>candy</i>), an offset overlap competitor (e.g. <i>sandal</i>), and a distractor. The results showed that, while all competitors were relatively quickly suppressed in quiet listening conditions, listeners experienced persistent competition in noise from the offset competitor but not from the onset competitor. This suggests that listeners' phonological competitor activation persists for longer in noise than in quiet and that listeners are able to deactivate some unwanted competition when listening to speech in noise. The well-attested competition pattern in quiet was not replicated. Possible methodological explanations for this result are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"2011 ","pages":"364-367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176825/pdf/nihms428935.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32705763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vowel Duration in Stressed Position in Central, Northern Varieties of Standard Italian: A Pilot Study","authors":"J. Hajek, M. Stevens","doi":"10.5282/UBM/EPUB.14211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5282/UBM/EPUB.14211","url":null,"abstract":"We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian. While there is overall convergence, we also find significant regional differences in some contexts, i.e. closed syllables, and antepenultimate position. We then consider the implications of our results for the phonological description and phonetic investigation of Italian.","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"81 1","pages":"803-806"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83393208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ann R Bradlow, Lauren Ackerman, L Ann Burchfield, Lisa Hesterberg, Jenna Luque, Kelsey Mok
{"title":"LANGUAGE- AND TALKER-DEPENDENT VARIATION IN GLOBAL FEATURES OF NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEECH.","authors":"Ann R Bradlow, Lauren Ackerman, L Ann Burchfield, Lisa Hesterberg, Jenna Luque, Kelsey Mok","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We motivate and present a corpus of scripted and spontaneous speech in both the native and the non-native language of talkers from various language backgrounds. Using corpus recordings from 11 native English and 11 late Mandarin-English bilinguals we compared speech timing across native English, native Mandarin, and Mandarin-accented English. Findings showed similarities across native Mandarin and native English in speaking rate and in reduction of the number of acoustic relative to orthographic syllables. The two languages differed in silence-to-speech ratio and in the number of words between pauses, possibly reflecting phrase-level structural differences between English and Mandarin. Non-native English had a significantly slower speaking rate and lower rate of syllable reduction than both native English and native Mandarin. But, non-native English was similar to native English in terms of silence-to-speech ratio and was similar to native Mandarin in terms of words per pause. Finally, some talker-specificity in terms of (non)optimal speech timing appeared to transfer from native to non-native speech within the Mandarin-English bilinguals. These findings provide an empirical base for testing how language-dependent, structural features combine with general features of non-native speech production and with talker-dependent features in determining foreign-language speech production.</p>","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"356-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3594809/pdf/nihms428934.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31308508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Individual Differences in Vowel Epenthesis among Korean Learners of English","authors":"Dong-Jin Shin, P. Iverson","doi":"10.1121/1.3508938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3508938","url":null,"abstract":"It has been established that Korean learners of English insert epenthetic vowels within consonant clusters, likely because consonant clusters are not used in Korean. The present studies investigated whether individual differences in vowel epenthesis are more related to the perception and production of segments (vowels and consonants), prosody, or are relatively independent of these processes. Thirty‐two subjects completed a battery of perception and production tasks: read target words that were likely to have epenthetic vowels (e.g., abduction), read sentences, identification of vowels and consonants, stress deafness, epenthetic vowel perception, and the recognition of English sentences in noise. The preliminary results demonstrate that these measures are not strongly correlated with each other, suggesting that vowel epenthesis may be related to phonotactic processes that are only weakly related to the ability of second‐language learners to produce and perceive English segments or prosody.","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"143 1","pages":"1822-1825"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86796514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yen-Liang Shue, P. Keating, C. Vicenik, Kristine M. Yu
{"title":"Voicesauce: A Program for Voice Analysis","authors":"Yen-Liang Shue, P. Keating, C. Vicenik, Kristine M. Yu","doi":"10.1121/1.3248865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3248865","url":null,"abstract":"VOICESAUCE is a new application, implemented in MATLAB, which provides automated voice measurements over time from audio recordings. The measures currently computed are F0, H1(*), H2(*), H4(*), H1(*)‐H2(*), H2(*)‐H4(*), H1(*)‐A1, H1(*)‐A2, H1(*)‐A3, energy, Cepstral Peak Prominence, F1–F4, and B1–B4, where (*) indicates that harmonic amplitudes are reported with and without corrections for formant frequencies and bandwidths [Iseli et al. (2006)]. Formant values are calculated using the Snack Sound Toolkit, while F0 is calculated using the STRAIGHT algorithm; harmonic spectra magnitudes are computed pitch‐synchronously. VOICESAUCE takes as input a folder of wav files, and for each input wav file produces a MATLAB file with values every millsecond for all measures. It can operate over the whole input file or over segments delimited by a PRAAT textgrid file. VOICESAUCE then takes these MATLAB outputs, optionally along with electroglottographic measurements obtained separately from PCQUIRERX, and provides con...","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"137 1","pages":"1846-1849"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89307036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IDENTIFYING AND EVALUATING APRAXIC SPEECH DEFICITS USING MAGNETOMETRY.","authors":"Dani Byrd, Katherine S Harris","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An understanding of the relationship of speech and language symptoms to lesions in the frontal region of the dominant hemisphere depends on a fuller description of the speech phenomena than can be provided by transcriptional or acoustic investigation alone. This paper provides examples of how articulatory movement tracking can aid in describing apraxic speech deficits.</p>","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"2007 ","pages":"2029-2032"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3442781/pdf/nihms48897.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30911731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}