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Arnott, Wendy; Goli, Tara; Bradley, Andrew; Smith, Andrew; Wilson, Wayne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: In the present study, the authors aimed to investigate the language confounds of filtered words tests by examining the repetition of real words versus nonsense words as a function of level of filtering. Method: Fifty-five young, native-English-speaking women with normal hearing were required to repeat 80 real-word and 80 nonsense-word…
Descriptors: Females, Language Tests, Native Speakers, English
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Hughes, Robert W.; Marsh, John E.; Jones, Dylan M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
The mechanisms underlying the poorer serial recall of talker-variable lists (e.g., alternating female-male voices) as compared with single-voice lists were examined. We tested the novel hypothesis that this "talker variability effect" arises from the tendency for perceptual organization to partition the list into streams based on voice…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Males, Females
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Mildner, Vesna – Brain and Cognition, 2004
The aim of the study was to test for possible functional cerebral asymmetry in processing one segment of linguistic prosody, namely word stress, in Croatian. The test material consisted of eight tokens of the word "pas" under a falling accent, varying only in vowel duration between 119 and 185ms, attached to the end of a frame sentence. The…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Suprasegmentals, Perception