Speech perception can be viewed in terms of the listener's integration of two sources of information: the acoustic features transduced by the auditory receptor system and the context of the linguistic message. The present research asked how these sources were evaluated and integrated in the identification of synthetic speech. A speech continuum between the glide-vowel syllables IriJ and lill wa...

The long-lasting effect of reading experience in Hebrew and English on phonemic segmentation was examined in skilled readers. Hebrew and English orthographies differ in the way they represent phonological information. Whereas each phoneme in English is represented hy a discrete letter, in unpointed Hebrew most ofthe vowel information is not conveyed by the print, and, therefore, a letter often ...

Does motor learning generalize to new situations that are not experienced during training, or is motor learning essentially specific to the training situation? In the present experiments, we use speech production as a model to investigate generalization in motor learning. We tested for generalization from training to transfer utterances by varying the acoustical similarity between these two set...

The paper explores the similarities and variations in applicability of nasalisation principles Lungu, Mambwe Namwanga (LuMaNa) languages. LuMaNa languages are spoken Northern Muchinga provinces Zambia. Lungu is classified as M14, M15 M22. study used CV phonology comparative Bantu morphophonological theories qualitative methods. Results reveal that nasal homorganic assimilation depends on conson...

Auditory cortex (AC) lesions impair complex sound discrimination. However, a recent study demonstrated spared performance on an acoustic startle response test of speech discrimination following AC lesions (Floody et al., 2010). The current study reports the effects of AC lesions on two operant speech discrimination tasks. AC lesions caused a modest and quickly recovered impairment in the abilit...

Two experiments investigated whether novel phonotactic regularities, not present in English, could be acquired by 16.5-month-old infants from brief auditory experience. Subjects listened to consonant-vowel-consonant syllables in which particular consonants were artificially restricted to either initial or final position (e.g. /baep/ not /paeb/). In a later head-turn preference test, infants lis...

In the first phase of this paper, we describe the construction of a Bangla speech synthesizer. In the second phase, we discuss our work on Bangla nasal vowel. Nasality is one of the distinctive characteristic of Bangla phonemes. We discuss methods employed for transforming Bangla oral vowel to the corresponding nasal vowel counterpart and its application to our speech synthesizer. The perceptua...

English nonsense consonant-vowel-consonant syllables were presented at four different signal-to-noise ratios for recognition. Information theory methods are used to analyze the response data according to segment type and phonological feature, and are consistent with previous studies showing that the consonantal contrast of voicing is more robust than place of articulation, word-initial consonan...