Pre-sessional EAP access courses for learners of English intending to study on undergraduate or postgraduate in the UK are faced with particular challenges incorporating meaningful suprasegmental pronunciation instruction into their programmes. This research examines goals teachers, course leaders, and a ten week pre-sessional course, particularly regard instruction, how these reflected assessm...

Introduction During the first year, infants are highly attuned to suprasegmental aspects of speech. This sensitivity may be exploited in the infant’s segmentation of the speech stream into clausal units. Hirsh-Pasek, Kemler Nelson, Jusczyk, Wright Cassidy, Druss and Kennedy (1987) examined young infants’ sensitivity to the pauses and other suprasegmental cues that coincided with clausal boundar...

Recently, psycholinguistics has seen an increase in the number of empirical studies investigating the role of implicit (silent) prosodic representations in reading. The current paper reviews studies from the last several years conducted to investigate Fodor’s (2002) Implicit Prosody Hypothesis, which maintains that even during silent reading, readers generate representations of sentence intonat...

Sonority is an important notion in phonology, but its definition has been controversial. Our analysis showed that sonority can be located in a multi-dimensional perceptual space, and that the dimensions of the space have correspondence to both acoustic parameters and phonological features. In the experiment, a confusion matrix was calculated from the results of consonant perception test for LPC...

The development of an online monitoring system is shown in order to track the physiological and cognitive condition of crew members of the Concordia Research Station in Antarctica, with specific regard to depression. Follow-up studies were carried out on recorded speech material in such a way that segmental and suprasegmental speech parameters were measured for individual researchers weekly, an...

This research seeks to establish an inventory of the suprasegmental acoustic cues that are relevant to the automatic typology and identification of the dialects of British English. Using evidence from traditional dialectology suggesting that the dialects of the British Isles exhibit differences at the suprasegmental level – and, in particular, in terms of rhythm – we apply procedures that have ...

A major task in the decomposition of multi-channel Electromyographic (EMG) signals into their uni-source pulse train (UPT) components is to resolve pulse superpositions. Even optimal segmental analysis that fits linear combinations of temporally aligned UPT pulses to short data segments gives rise to errors because of pulse evolution and the presence of non-stationary noise. To address such sho...

The aim of this study was to investigate individual differences in vowel epenthesis among Korean L2 speakers of English, and its relationship to other measures of segmental and suprasegmental processing. Thirty-two subjects completed a battery of production and perception tasks: spoken target words that were likely to have epenthetic vowels, read sentences, epenthetic vowel perception, identifi...