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Inequality across Consonantal Contrasts in Speech Perception: Evidence from Mismatch Negativity
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Cornell, Sonia A.; Lahiri, Aditi; Eulitz, Carsten – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
The precise structure of speech sound representations is still a matter of debate. In the present neurobiological study, we compared predictions about differential sensitivity to speech contrasts between models that assume full specification of all phonological information in the mental lexicon with those assuming sparse representations (only…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Models, Speech Communication, Articulation (Speech)
Patterns of Cluster Reduction in the Acquisition of #sC Onsets: Are Bilinguals Different from Monolinguals?
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Yavas, Mehmet – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
This article is a comparative look at the cluster reduction patterns of English #sC onsets in three groups of children. Data from 40 monolingual, 40 Spanish-English bilingual and 40 Haitian Creole-English bilingual children were examined. While there were several similarities in the patterns exhibited by the three groups, there was a sharp…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phonemes, Pattern Recognition, Language Acquisition
A Multi-Agent Question-Answering System for E-Learning and Collaborative Learning Environment
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Alinaghi, Tannaz; Bahreininejad, Ardeshir – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2011
The increasing advances of new Internet technologies in all application domains have changed life styles and interactions. E-learning and collaborative learning environment systems are originated through such changes and aim at providing facilities for people in different times and geographical locations to cooperate, collaborate, learn and work…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Environment, Questioning Techniques, Responses
Adult Speakers' Tongue-Palate Contact Patterns for Bilabial Stops within Complex Clusters
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Zharkova, Natalia; Schaeffler, Sonja; Gibbon, Fiona E. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
Previous studies using Electropalatography (EPG) have shown that individuals with speech disorders sometimes produce articulation errors that affect bilabial targets, but currently there is limited normative data available. In this study, EPG and acoustic data were recorded during complex word final sps clusters spoken by 20 normal adults. A total…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, English, Profiles
Learning Words' Sounds before Learning How Words Sound: 9-Month-Olds Use Distinct Objects as Cues to Categorize Speech Information
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Yeung, H. Henny; Werker, Janet F. – Cognition, 2009
One of the central themes in the study of language acquisition is the gap between the linguistic knowledge that learners demonstrate, and the apparent inadequacy of linguistic input to support induction of this knowledge. One of the first linguistic abilities in the course of development to exemplify this problem is in speech perception:…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Native Speakers, Infants, Auditory Perception
Awesome Mess or Good Compromise? Spelling, Linguistics, and Middle Schoolers
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Meyer, Jim – Voices from the Middle, 2008
The stereotypical view of English spelling as an awesome mess is no longer widely held by linguists. That view assumes that spelling should represent pronunciation directly and simply. Instead, spelling is currently understood as representing a more abstract level of language as well as reflecting etymology. Examples from a middle school spelling…
Descriptors: English, Spelling, Vowels, Etymology