A5075113523- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Language Development and Disorders
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Voice and Speech Disorders
- Infant Health and Development
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Dysphagia Assessment and Management
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Blind Source Separation Techniques
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Digital Communication and Language
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Queen Margaret University
2007-2024
University of Edinburgh
2010
University of Stirling
2006
Umeå University
2002
Because child-directed speech (CDS) is ubiquitous in some cultures and because positive associations between certain features of the language input learning outcomes have been attested it has often claimed that function CDS to aid children's development general. We argue for this claim be generalisable, superior from compared non-CDS, such as adult-directed (ADS), must demonstrated across multiple domains outcomes. To determine availability evidence we performed a study space analysis...
While it is well known that languages have different phonemes and phonologies, there growing interest in the idea may also differ their ‘phonetic setting’. The term setting’ refers to a tendency make vocal apparatus employ language-specific habitual configuration. For example, degree of lip-rounding, tension lips tongue, jaw position, phonation types, pitch range register. Such phonetic specifications be particularly difficult for second language (L2) learners acquire, yet easily perceivable...
In this paper, we investigate acoustic features which differentiate the two speech registers neutral and intimate within different constellations of speakers addressees. Three types are considered: mothers addressing their own children or an unknown adult, women with no imaginary child a pet robot using both speech. We use large, systematically generated feature vector, upsampling, SVM RF for learning. Results reported extensive test-runs facing speaker- independency PCA-SFFS vs. SVM-SFFS...
Purpose: This study investigates the hypothesis that younger speakers and with more severe speech sound disorders are likely to use simpler (undifferentiated) tongue gestures due difficulties with, or immaturity of, lingual motor control. Method: The is tested using cross-sectional secondary data analysis of synchronous audio high-speed ultrasound recordings from children idiopathic ( n = 30, aged 5;0–12;11 [years;months]) typically developing 29, 5;8–12;10), producing /a/, /t/, /ɹ/, /l/,...
Research on the facial expression of emotion distinguishes between correlates posed vs. spontaneous expression.Similar research in vocal domain is lacking.In this study, we compare changes a range parameters adult-directed (AD) and child-directed (CD) speech.CDS highly affectively charged speech register which lends itself well to study expression.A group mother addressed an adult their child, non-mothers imaginary child.The results confirm adjustments pitch, formants rate typically reported...
Previous studies using Electropalatography (EPG) have shown that individuals with speech disorders sometimes produce articulation errors affect bilabial targets, but currently there is limited normative data available. In this study, EPG and acoustic were recorded during complex word final /sps/ clusters spoken by 20 normal adults. A total contact (TC) index measured amount of tongue-palate in words such as ‘crisps’. Bilabial closure was inferred from the signal. The TC profiles indicated...
Preaspiration is not unusual in connection with unvoiced consonants Swedish.In all the 20 Northern Swedish dialects covered this study stops following stressed vowels are preaspirated to at least some extent, although preaspiration characteristic for speakers.However, two of plays a more prominent and even normative role, being means maintain quantity distinctions.Preaspiration moreover fills function different ways dialects.The description dependence on distinctions topic paper.
Because child-directed speech (CDS) is ubiquitous in some cultures and because positive associations between certain features of the language input learning outcomes have been attested it has often claimed that function CDS to aid children’s development general. We argue for this claim be generalisable, superior from compared non-CDS, such as adult-directed (ADS), must demonstrated across multiple domains outcomes. To determine availability evidence we performed a study space analysis...