Articulation errors will seriously reduce speech intelligibility and the ease of spoken communication. Typically, a speech-language pathologist uses his or her clinical experience to identify articulation error patterns, a time-consuming and expensive process. Moreover, the language training is very difficult to articulation disorders for personal training procedure. In this paper, a system wit...

As spoken language unfolds over time the speech input transiently activates multiple candidates at different levels of the system - phonological, lexical, and syntactic - which in turn leads to short-lived between-candidate competition. In an fMRI study, we investigated how different kinds of linguistic competition may be modulated by the presence or absence of a prior context (Tyler 1984; Tyle...

Two studies were conducted to elucidate the influence of phonological properties of speech segments on their cortical representation. The aim was to show that timing and mapping of the N100m brain response elicited by natural speech reflect the detection of phonological features. Auditory evoked fields were recorded while subjects performed target token detection tasks. In the first study using...

Previous research (Munson and Solomon 2004; Wright 2004) has shown that both phonological neighborhood density and word frequency influence the size of the acoustic F1/F2 vowel space. This study investigated whether these influences reflect the role of real-time lexical access processes on articulation. Specifically, it examined the influence of word frequency and phonological neighborhood dens...

This paper reports on a study of the temporal characteristics of phonological error repair in spontaneous Dutch speech, with a focus on how the articulation rate of the correct target word production — the repair — compares to that of the preceding erroneous target word attempt — the reparandum. The study is motivated by two findings from recent independent studies: first, that selfrepair is ge...

BACKGROUND Phonological disorder. AIM To apply the percentage of correct consonant (PCC) index and to verify the correlation between this index and the one applied perceptually by judges. METHOD The PCC index of 50 phonological disordered subjects was calculated, after 60 judges heard the phonological tests for each subject and perceptually attributed the severity. RESULTS The PCC index v...

BACKGROUND Self-awareness of speech impairment according to the following extralinguistic variables: gender and age. AIM To examine the influence of gender and age on the self-awareness of speech impairment. METHOD Participants were 24 children with the diagnosis of phonological disorder, 15 boys and 9 girls, with ages ranging between 5:0 and 7:7 years. For this group the assessment of self...

Connected speech processes (CSP) in Warlpiri, an indigenous language of central Australia, taken from two fluent ‘dreaming’ monologues are analyzed with the aim of observing the influence of language particular phonological constraints and prosody upon phonetic processes of lenition, co-articulation and selective segmental enhancement.

In Guinaang Bontok, there is a phonological contrast between singletons and geminates in all consonants (/p t k / b d gm n N l s w j/) (Reid 1963, 1973; Thurgood 1997). All phonological geminates except for the oral voiced stop geminates are phonetically long consonants (Reid 1963), allowing a phonological distinction which is primarily based on phonetic duration for nasals, fricatives, liquids...