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Karimi-Boroujeni, Maryam; Dajani, Hilmi R.; Giguère, Christian – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Prosody perception is an essential component of speech communication and social interaction through which both linguistic and emotional information are conveyed. Considering the importance of the auditory system in processing prosody-related acoustic features, the aim of this review article is to review the effects of hearing impairment…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Acoustics
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Leung, Yeptain; Oates, Jennifer; Chan, Siew Pang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The aim of this study was to provide a systematic review of the aspects of verbal communication contributing to listener perceptions of speaker gender with a view to providing clinicians with guidance for the selection of the training goals when working with transsexual individuals. Method: Preferred reporting items for systematic review…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Verbal Communication, Receptive Language, Listening
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Fujisaki, Hiroya – Language and Speech, 1980
Augments Michael Studdert-Kennedy's state-of-the-art report on speech perception research (EJ 227 656) with comments on categorical perception of speech and nonspeech stimuli, speech perception in context, the role of prosody, and development/impairments of speech perception. Includes a summary of a discussion on speech perception research. (RL)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Auditory Perception, Children
Snow, David – 1982
The psychological process of segmenting sentences into meaningful units or "chunks" is believed to be an important aspect of text comprehension processes. The most characteristic type of parsing task elicits perceptions of text structure indirectly by asking individuals to make judgments about pause placement in sentences. In four…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Children, Elementary Education
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Studdert-Kennedy, Michael – Language and Speech, 1980
Reviews research on prosody and segmental perception, segmentation and invariance, categorical perception of speech and nonspeech, feature detectors, scaling speech sounds to an auditory-articulatory space, acoustic-phonetic dependencies within the syllable, higher order (nonphonetic) factors in the comprehension of fluent speech, and cerebral…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Auditory Perception, Children