Individual Differences In Speech Production And Perception

Author : Susanne Fuchs
Publisher : Speech Production and Perception
ISBN 13 : 9783631665060
Total Pages : 0 pages
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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.

Author : Rochelle Suzanne Newman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Jinghua Ou
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361034316
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Jinghua Ou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781361034309
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Peijian Paul Sun
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832528376
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Susanne Fuchs
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631797860
Total Pages : 0 pages
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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.

Author : Matthew Joel Makashay
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Total Pages : pages
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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.

Author : P.L. Divenyi
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607502038
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Ratree Wayland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108882366
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : J. Bruce Tomblin
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317752171
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Individual Differences in Language Development Across the School Years written by J. Bruce Tomblin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the findings of a large-scale study of individual differences in spoken (and heard) language development during the school years. The goal of the study was to investigate the degree to which language abilities at school entry were stable over time and influential in the child’s overall success in important aspects of development. The methodology was a longitudinal study of over 600 children in the US Midwest during a 10-year period. The language skills of these children -- along with reading, academic, and psychosocial outcomes -- were measured. There was intentional oversampling of children with poor language ability without being associated with other developmental or sensory disorders. Furthermore, these children could be sub-grouped based on their nonverbal abilities, such that one group represents children with specific language impairment (SLI), and the other group with nonspecific language impairment (NLI) represents poor language along with depressed nonverbal abilities. Throughout the book, the authors consider whether these distinctions are supported by evidence obtained in this study and which aspects of development are impacted by poor language ability. Data are provided that allow conclusions to be made regarding the level of risk associated with different degrees of poor language and whether this risk should be viewed as lying on a continuum. The volume will appeal to researchers and professionals with an interest in children’s language development, particularly those working with children who have a range of language impairments. This includes Speech and Language Pathologists; Child Neuropsychologists; Clinical Psychologists working in Education, as well as Psycholinguists and Developmental Psychologists.