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Park, Yeonggwang; Anand, Supraja; Gifford, Sophia M.; Shrivastav, Rahul; Eddins, David A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Acoustic and perceptual quantification of vocal strain has been a vexing problem for years. To increase measurement rigor, a suitable single-variable matching stimulus for strain was developed and validated, based on the matching stimulus used previously for breathy and rough voice qualities. Method: A set of 21 comparison stimuli for a…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Voice Disorders, Measurement
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Danielle Daidone; Ryan Lidster; Franziska Kruger – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Our study proposes the use of a free classification task for investigating the dimensions used by listeners in their perception of nonnative sounds and for predicting the perceptual discriminability of nonnative contrasts. In a free classification task, participants freely group auditory stimuli based on their perceived similarity. The results can…
Descriptors: Classification, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
Aini Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines whether and how psycholinguistic priming, and social knowledge are integrated in the identification of sociolinguistic variants. Using the English variable (ING), the alternation between -ing and -in' (e.g. thinking vs. thinkin') as a testing ground, this dissertation probes whether and how individuals utilize…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Phonology, Psycholinguistics
Lee Tecoulesco – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Previous research has shown a relationship between robust neural encoding of speech by the auditory brainstem and children's phonological abilities. Two areas of brainstem encoding this work has included are the ABR dimensions of consistency, or how similar responses are to a repeated stimulus, and differentiation, or the degree to which responses…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Speech Communication, Phonology
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Werff, Kathy R. Vander; Niemczak, Christopher E.; Morse, Kenneth – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Background noise has been categorized as energetic masking due to spectrotemporal overlap of the target and masker on the auditory periphery or informational masking due to cognitive-level interference from relevant content such as speech. The effects of masking on cortical and sensory auditory processing can be objectively studied with…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Acoustics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing
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Tsukada, Kimiko; Hajek, John – Second Language Research, 2023
This study compared individuals from two first language (L1) backgrounds (Italian, Mandarin) to determine how they may differ in their perception of Japanese consonant length (i.e. singleton vs. geminate) according to the phonemic status of length in L1 and experience with Japanese. The participants included two groups of non-native learners of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Native Language, Italian, Mandarin Chinese
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Arriagada-Mödinger, Francia; Ferreira, Roberto A. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The present study investigated the effect of emotional valence on auditory word recognition memory in English as a foreign language. Participants included 48 native Spanish speakers whose foreign language was English. They viewed four emotionally negative, four positive, and four neutral videos that, in total, contained 48 emotionally valenced…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Processing
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Park, Yeonggwang; Cádiz, Manuel Díaz; Nagle, Kathleen F.; Stepp, Cara E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Assessment of strained voice quality is difficult due to the weak reliability of auditory-perceptual evaluation and lack of strong acoustic correlates. This study evaluated the contributions of relative fundamental frequency (RFF) and mid-to-high frequency noise to the perception of strain. Method: Stimuli were created using recordings of…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Audio Equipment, Auditory Perception, Correlation
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Amrani, Anat Kliger; Golumbic, Elana Zion – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Humans have a near-automatic tendency to entrain their motor actions to rhythms in the environment. Entrainment has been hypothesized to play an important role in processing naturalistic stimuli, such as speech and music, which have intrinsically rhythmic properties. Here, we studied two facets of entraining one's rhythmic motor actions…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Auditory Stimuli
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Cooper, Angela; Paquette-Smith, Melissa; Bordignon, Caterina; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Foreign accents can vary considerably in the degree to which they deviate from the listener's native accent, but little is known about how the relationship between a speaker's accent and a listener's native language phonology mediates adaptation. Using an artificial accent methodology, we addressed this issue by constructing a set of three…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Auditory Perception, Adults, Toddlers
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Varghese, Peter; Kalashnikova, Marina; Burnham, Denis – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: An important skill in the development of speech perception is to apply optimal weights to acoustic cues so that phonemic information is recovered from speech with minimum effort. Here, we investigated the development of acoustic cue weighting of amplitude rise time (ART) and formant rise time (FRT) cues in children as measured by mismatch…
Descriptors: Cues, Speech Communication, Auditory Perception, Phonemics
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Rabab'ah, Ghaleb; Kessar, Sara; Abusalim, Nimer – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The prominent role of allophonic cues in English speech segmentation has widely been recognized by phonologists and psycholinguists. However, very meager inquiry was devoted to analysing the perception of these noncontrastive allophonic cues by Arab EFL learners. Accordingly, the present study is an attempt to examine the exploitation of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Psycholinguistics
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dos Santos, Regina Antunes Teixeira; dos Santos, Rafael Puchalski – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2021
Addressing the disparate levels of aural skills that students may have acquired through their daily musical experiences prior to formal schooling can be difficult. Placement tests within the Western classical musical tradition typically involve structural decoding and formal concepts of elementary music theory. In this manuscript, we discuss the…
Descriptors: Music Theory, Music Education, Outreach Programs, Student Placement
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Hoover, Eric C.; Kinney, Brianna N.; Bell, Karen L.; Gallun, Frederick J.; Eddins, David A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Growing evidence supports the inclusion of perceptual tests that quantify the processing of temporal fine structure (TFS) in clinical hearing assessment. Many tasks have been used to evaluate TFS in the laboratory that vary greatly in the stimuli used and whether the judgments require monaural or binaural comparisons of TFS. The purpose…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cues, Auditory Tests, Auditory Perception
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Davies, Benjamin; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Demuth, Katherine – Language Learning and Development, 2020
English-speaking children use plural morphology from around the age of 2, yet often omit the syllabic plural allomorph /-[schwa]z/ until age 5 (e.g., "bus(es)"). It is not clear if this protracted acquisition is due to articulatory difficulties, low input frequency, or fricative-final words (e.g., "bus," "nose") being…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Linguistic Input, Phonology
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