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Wang, Yuxia; Yang, Xiaohu; Liu, Chang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the aging effect on the categorical perception of Mandarin Chinese tones with varied fundamental frequency (F0) contours and signal duration. Method: Both younger and older native Chinese listeners with normal hearing were recruited in 2 experiments--tone identification and tone discrimination…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Intonation, Aging (Individuals), Age Differences
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Gregg, Melissa K.; Samuel, Arthur G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Because the environment often includes multiple sounds that overlap in time, listeners must segregate a sound of interest (the auditory figure) from other co-occurring sounds (the unattended auditory ground). We conducted a series of experiments to clarify the principles governing the extraction of auditory figures. We distinguish between auditory…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Cues, Auditory Perception, Experiments
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Hervais-Adelman, Alexis G.; Davis, Matthew H.; Johnsrude, Ingrid S.; Taylor, Karen J.; Carlyon, Robert P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Recent work demonstrates that learning to understand noise-vocoded (NV) speech alters sublexical perceptual processes but is enhanced by the simultaneous provision of higher-level, phonological, but not lexical content (Hervais-Adelman, Davis, Johnsrude, & Carlyon, 2008), consistent with top-down learning (Davis, Johnsrude, Hervais-Adelman,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Generalization, Acoustics, Experiments
Tepeli, Dilara – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The German /r/ sound is one of the most difficult sounds for American English (AE) speakers who are learning German as a foreign language to produce. The standard German /r/ variant [/R/] and dialectal variant [R] are achieved by varying the tongue constriction degree, while keeping the place of articulation constant [Schiller and Mooshammer…
Descriptors: North American English, Native Speakers, Articulation (Speech), Correlation
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Honing, Henkjan; Ladinig, Olivia – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
This study is concerned with the question whether, and to what extent, listeners' previous exposure to music in everyday life, and expertise as a result of formal musical training, play a role in making expressive timing judgments in music. This was investigated by using a Web-based listening experiment in which listeners with a wide range of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Listening, Experimental Psychology
Bao, Mingzhen – ProQuest LLC, 2008
Linguistic prominence is defined as words or syllables perceived auditorily as standing out from their environment. It is explored through changes in pitch, duration and loudness. In this study, phonetic realization and perception of prominence among lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese was investigated in two experiments. Experiment 1 explored…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Acoustics, Cues, Vowels
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Leibold, Lori J.; Werner, Lynne A. – Infancy, 2007
It has been suggested that infants respond preferentially to infant-directed speech because their auditory sensitivity to sounds with extensive frequency modulation (FM) is better than their sensitivity to less modulated sounds. In this experiment, auditory thresholds for FM tones and for unmodulated, or pure, tones in a background of noise were…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Infants, Auditory Stimuli, Responses
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Grundler, Hartmut – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis
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Sloutsky, Vladimir M.; Napolitano, Amanda C. – Child Development, 2003
Four experiments tested the hypothesis that the importance of linguistic labels for young children's conceptual organization stems from a privileged processing status of auditory input over visual input. Findings indicated that when auditory and visual stimuli were presented separately, 4-year-olds were likely to process both kinds of stimuli,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Classification, Cognitive Processes
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Brancazio, Lawrence; Best, Catherine T.; Fowler, Carol A. – Language and Speech, 2006
We report four experiments designed to determine whether visual information affects judgments of acoustically-specified nonspeech events as well as speech events (the "McGurk effect"). Previous findings have shown only weak McGurk effects for nonspeech stimuli, whereas strong effects are found for consonants. We used click sounds that…
Descriptors: African Languages, Vowels, English, Comparative Analysis
Bond, Zinny S.; And Others – 1971
This volume of working papers includes eight papers dealing mainly with experimental topics in linguistics and in phonology and speech. The following articles are in the collection: "Units in Speech Perception,""The Temporal Realization of Morphological and Syntactic Boundaries,""Comparison of Controlled and Uncontrolled Normal Speech Rate,""Word…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis, Dialects
Gerber, Sanford E.; Hanley, Theodore D. – 1969
An experiment which measures the foreignness of selected languages with reference to each other, to native languages of listeners, and to listeners' language experience is described. The procedure involves the tape recordings of 50 sentences in the native languages of 10 selected speakers. The second major stage involves playback to listener…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli