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Perception of Japanese Temporally-Cued Contrasts by American English Listeners
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Hisagi, Miwako; Strange, Winifred – Language and Speech, 2011
American listeners' perception of Japanese contrasts of vowel length (e.g., kiro vs. kiiro), consonant length (e.g., kite vs. kitte) and syllable number/length (e.g., kjoo vs. kijoo) was examined. Stimuli consisted of sentence-length utterances produced by a native Japanese talker; five minimal pairs of each contrast type were included. Questions…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonology, North American English, Japanese
Testing Auditory Processing Skills and Their Associations with Language in 4-5-Year-Olds
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Bavin, Edith L.; Grayden, David B.; Scott, Kim; Stefanakis, Toni – Language and Speech, 2010
Infants' auditory processing abilities have been shown to predict subsequent language development. In addition, poor auditory processing skills have been shown for some individuals with specific language impairment. Methods used in infant studies are not appropriate for use with young children, and neither are methods typically used to test…
Descriptors: Intervals, Speech Impairments, Testing, Young Children
Methodology of Experiments on the Perception of Synthesized Vowels
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Ainsworth, W. A.; Millar, J. B. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Cues, Discrimination Learning
On the Spoken Disambiguation of Superfically Ambiguous Sentences
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Scholes, R. J. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Cues