Download or read book Individual Differences in Speech Production and Perception written by Susanne Fuchs and published by Speech Production and Perception. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inter-individual variation in speech is a topic of increasing interest in the humanities. It can yield important insights into biological, linguistic, cognitive, and social features of language. The big challenge is to find out which speaker- and listener-specific details are crucial. This book introduces such details from various perspectives.

Download or read book Individual Differences and the Link Between Speech Perception and Speech Production written by Rochelle Suzanne Newman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book RELATIONSHIPS AMONG INDIVIDUAL written by Jinghua Ou and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Relationships Among Individual Differences in Speech Perception, Speech Production, and Cognitive Functions: a Case Study of Cantonese Tone Merger" by Jinghua, Ou, 歐靜樺, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Studies of speech processing have generally made the implicit assumption that typically developed speakers can distinguish all sounds of their mother tongue in perception and production. As such, individual differences in speech processing is usually studied with speakers differing in training/experience (Strait & Kraus, 2011), or populations with developmental disorders (Facoetti et al., 2010), and few investigations have been conducted without the effects from training/experience among typically-developed individuals. However, sociolinguists have long recognized that native speakers vary in their ability to discriminate speech sounds in their language, and enormous variability exists especially during a sound change in progress. Taking the opportunity of an on-going tone merging in Hong Kong Cantonese, this thesis aims to systematically investigate individual differences of native speech perception, production, and their relationships with cognitive functions among typically-developed speakers. Three participant groups were recruited, who presented respectively the pattern of good perception and good production of all Cantonese tones []Per+Pro], that of good perception of all tones but poor production of specifically the T2/T5 distinction []Per-Pro], and that of poor perception and production of specifically the T2/T5 distinction [-Per-Pro]. Behavioral and neural measures of tone perception included reaction time, discrimination sensitivity index, and components of event-related potentials (ERPs) - the mismatch negativity (MMN), P3a, and rise time of amplitude envelope. Acoustic measurements were used to evaluate tone production in terms of both pitch and amplitude rise time. Components of attention and working memory in auditory and visual modalities are assessed with published cognitive test batteries. The results show that, apart from the expected differences in accuracy and discrimination sensitivity of tone perception, both []Per-Pro] and [-Per-Pro] took significantly longer to discriminate between tones than []Per+Pro]. As for the performance in production, besides the differences in pitch offset, both []Per-Pro] and [-Per-Pro] showed decreased differentiation in rise time between the two rising tones in production, compared with []Per+Pro].With respect to the brain responses reflected in the MMN and P3a to pitch deviations among tones, [-Per-Pro] showed smaller and slower responses than one or both of the other two groups, but []Per+Pro] and []Per-Pro] did not differ from each other. However, both []Per-Pro] and [-Per-Pro] showed weaker neural responses compared with []Per+Pro] to the rise time of T5. In addition, [-Per-Pro] was poorer in tasks pertaining to the ability of attention switching/shifting regardless of modality than one or both of the other two groups, but []Per+Pro] and []Per-Pro] did not differ from each other. Further correlation and regression analyses reveal that both pitch contour/height and rise time contributed to distinctive perception and production of rising tones, measures of perception (behavioral and neural) and production were correlated with each other, and attentional shifting in visual and auditory modalities significantly predicted performances of discrimination and production. Taken together, the findings of the present study suggest that attentional switching

Download or read book Relationships Among Individual Differences in Speech Perception Speech Production and Cognitive Functions written by Jinghua Ou and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Individual Differences in Second Foreign Language Speech Production Multidisciplinary Approaches and New Sounds written by Peijian Paul Sun and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second/foreign language (L2) speech production is a complex process requiring individuals’ combined efforts to utilize various processing components such as conceptualiser, formulator, and articulator. Since the publication of Pim Levelt’s book Speaking – From Intention to Articulation in 1989, a considerable number of studies have examined L2 speech production in the field of neuroscience with a particular focus on the link between speech perception and speech production. Undeniably, a neurolinguistic examination of speech production can enrich our understanding of how human brains compute linguistic information at a cognitive level. However, it is insufficient by only focusing on the neurocognitive dimension of speech production, given that individuals’ speech production can be subject to various individual differences factors, either cognitively, affectively, or socio-culturally. It is, therefore, necessary to move beyond the neurocognitive understanding of speech production by taking every possible perspective into consideration. Individual difference, as an umbrella term, covers psychological traits, personal characteristics, cognitive and emotional components that distinguish learners from each other. Given that individual difference factors can reveal disparities in L2 learning and performance among learners, such factors have attracted researchers’ growing interest concerning their influences on L2 speech processing, their relationships with L2 speech performance, and their contributions to L2 speech development. Nevertheless, our understanding of L2 speech production is not only insufficient compared to other L2 skills such as writing and reading, but also limited to the neurocognitive account of L2 speech production. More research, therefore, is in urgent need to uncover the influence of various individual differences factors on L2 speech production from multidisciplinary perspectives.

Download or read book Speech Production and Perception Learning and Memory written by Susanne Fuchs and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through several reviews and original work, the book focuses on three key topics: first, the role of real-time auditory feedback in learning, second, the role of motor aspects for learning and memory, and third, representations in memory and the role of sleep on memory consolidation.

Download or read book Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception written by P.L. Divenyi and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2006-09-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that speech is a dynamic process is a tautology: whether from the standpoint of the talker, the listener, or the engineer, speech is an action, a sound, or a signal continuously changing in time. Yet, because phonetics and speech science are offspring of classical phonology, speech has been viewed as a sequence of discrete events-positions of the articulatory apparatus, waveform segments, and phonemes. Although this perspective has been mockingly referred to as "beads on a string", from the time of Henry Sweet's 19th century treatise almost up to our days specialists of speech science and speech technology have continued to conceptualize the speech signal as a sequence of static states interleaved with transitional elements reflecting the quasi-continuous nature of vocal production. This book, a collection of papers of which each looks at speech as a dynamic process and highlights one of its particularities, is dedicated to the memory of Ludmilla Andreevna Chistovich. At the outset, it was planned to be a Chistovich festschrift but, sadly, she passed away a few months before the book went to press. The 24 chapters of this volume testify to the enormous influence that she and her colleagues have had over the four decades since the publication of their 1965 monograph.

Download or read book Individual Differences in Speech and Non speech Perception of Frequency and Duration written by Matthew Joel Makashay and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation investigates whether there are systematic individual differences in the perceptual weighting of frequency and duration speech cues for vowels and fricatives (and their non-speech analogues) among a dialectally homogeneous group of speakers. Many of the previous studies on individual differences have failed to control for the dialects of the subjects, which suggests that any individual differences that were found may be dialectal. Dialect production and perception tasks were included in this study to help ensure that subjects are not from dissimilar dialects. The main task for listeners was AX discrimination for four separate types of stimuli: sine wave vowels, narrowband fricatives, synthetic vowels, and synthetic fricatives. Vowel stimuli were based on the manipulation of duration and frequency of F1 for the vowels in "heed" and "hid", while fricative stimuli were based on the manipulation of the fifth frequency centroid of the fricatives in "bath" and "bass". Multidimensional scaling results indicate that there are subgroups within a dialect that attend to frequency and duration differently, and that not all listeners use these cues consistently across dissimilar phones. Results of this study will be relevant to the fields of perception, feature phonology, dialectology, and language change. If subgroups can have different perceptions of speech (but similar productions), this questions what is needed to classify dialect continua, and the ratios of these subgroups changing over time can explain some language mergers and shifts.

Download or read book Second Language Speech Learning written by Ratree Wayland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.

Download or read book Speech Perception and Production in L2 written by Elena Kkese and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with studying speech perception and production in an L2. It deals with segments, syllables, and features above syllable level (the suprasegmental level). The volume brings together careful theoretical and empirical research conducted in different countries, including the United States of America, Greece, Northern Cyprus, Canada, the Republic of Cyprus, Israel, and Spain.

Download or read book From First Words to Grammar written by Elizabeth Bates and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive study of the passage from first words to grammar in a sample of children large enough to permit systematic analysis of individual differences in style and rate of development. The authors provide a large body of information about first words and early grammatical development in qualitative and quantitative patterns that are useful not only for researchers in the field, but for speech/language pathologists and early childhood educators interested in the assessment of early language. The results support a unified functionalist approach to language development, and have implications for the way we think about the structure and breakdown of language under normal and abnormal conditions.

Download or read book Individual Differences in Language Ability and Language Behavior written by Charles J Fillmore and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individual Differences in Language Ability and Language Behavior is a collection of papers that discusses differences at the center of the study of language, specifically, on the various dimensions of linguistic ability and behavior along which individuals can differ from each other. Papers also review the development of techniques that measure these dimensions in relation to biological, psychological, and cultural parameters. Some papers review individual differences in language study in terms of different perspectives: that of a psychometrician's, of an individualistic's vantage point, and of a psycholinguistic's. Other papers discuss how each individual accesses, uses, and judges his language through fluency, biases, spatial principles, or a linguistic-phonetic mode. Several papers examine individual differences in language acquisition, such as "profile analysis," strategies in acquisition of sounds, second language learning, and duplication of adult language system. A group of papers addresses the biological aspects of language variation. These biological aspects include selective disorders of syntax (agrammatism), selective disorders of lexical retrieval (anomia), and cerebral lateralization effects in language processing. Certain papers explain individual differences in languages using sociolinguistic analysis. The collection is well suited for linguists, ethnologists, psychologists, and researchers whose works involve linguistics, learning, communications, and syntax.

Download or read book Speech Perception Production and Acquisition written by Huei‐Mei Liu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses important issues of speech processing and language learning in Chinese. It highlights perception and production of speech in healthy and clinical populations and in children and adults. This book provides diverse perspectives and reviews of cutting-edge research in past decades on how Chinese speech is processed and learned. Along with each chapter, future research directions have been discussed. With these unique features and the broad coverage of topics, this book appeals to not only scholars and students who study speech perception in preverbal infants and in children and adults learning Chinese, but also to teachers with interests in pedagogical applications in teaching Chinese as Second Language.

Download or read book The Cognitive and Neural Organisation of Speech Processing written by Patti Adank and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speech production and perception are two of the most complex actions humans perform. The processing of speech is studied across various fields and using a wide variety of research approaches. These fields include, but are not limited to, (socio)linguistics, phonetics, cognitive psychology, neurophysiology, and cognitive neuroscience. Research approaches range from behavioural studies to neuroimaging techniques such as Magnetoencephalography, electroencephalography (MEG/EEG) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), as well as neurophysiological approaches, such as the recording of Motor Evoked Potentials (MEPs), and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Each of these approaches provides valuable information about specific aspects of speech processing. Behavioural testing can inform about the nature of the cognitive processes involved in speech processing, neuroimaging methods show where (fMRI and MEG) in the brain these processes take place and/or elucidate on the time-course of activation of these brain areas (EEG and MEG), while neurophysiological methods (MEPs and TMS) can assess critical involvement of brain regions in the cognitive process. Yet, what is currently unclear is how speech researchers can combine methods such that a convergent approach adds to theory/model formulation, above and beyond the contribution of individual component methods? We expect that such combinations of approaches will significantly forward theoretical development in the field. The present research topic comprise a collection of manuscripts discussing the cognitive and neural organisation of speech processing, including speech production and perception at the level of individual speech sounds, syllables, words, and sentences. Our goal was to use findings from a variety of disciplines, perspectives, and approaches to gain a more complete picture of the organisation of speech processing. The contributions are grouped around the following five main themes: 1) Spoken language comprehension under difficult listening conditions; 2) Sub-lexical processing; 3) Sensorimotor processing of speech; 4) Speech production. The contributions used a variety of research approaches, including behavioural experiments, fMRI, EEG, MEG, and TMS. Twelve of the 14 contributions were on speech perception processing, and the remaining two examined speech production. This Research Topic thus displays a wide variety of topics and research methods and this comprehensive approach allows an integrative understanding of currently available evidence as well as the identification of concrete venues for future research.

Download or read book The Initiation of Sound Change written by Maria-Josep Solé and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines advanced approaches to sound change from various theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech perception mechanisms and neurobiological processes, geographical and social variation, and diachronic phonology.

Download or read book Language Perception and Production written by D. Alan Allport and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Listening Bilingual written by François Grosjean and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital resource on speech and language processing in bilingual adults and children The Listening Bilingual brings together in one volume the various components of spoken language processing in bilingual adults, infants and children. The book includes a review of speech perception and word recognition; syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of speech processing; the perception and comprehension of bilingual mixed speech (code-switches, borrowings and interferences); and the assessment of bilingual speech perception and comprehension in adults and children in the clinical context. The two main authors as well as selected guest authors, Mark Antoniou, Theres Grüter, Robert J. Hartsuiker, Elizabeth D. Peña and Lisa M. Bedore, and Lu-Feng Shi, introduce the various approaches used in the study of spoken language perception and comprehension in bilingual individuals. The authors focus on experimentation that involves both well-established tasks and newer tasks, as well as techniques used in brain imaging. This important resource: Is the first of its kind to concentrate specifically on spoken language processing in bilingual adults and children. Offers a unique text that covers both fundamental and applied research in bilinguals. Covers a range of topics including speech perception, spoken word recognition, higher level processing, code-switching, and assessment. Presents information on the assessment of bilingual children’s language development Written for advanced undergraduate students in linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, and speech/language pathology as well as researchers, The Listening Bilingual offers a state-of-the-art review of the recent developments and approaches in speech and language processing in bilingual people of all ages.