According to the dual stream model of auditory language processing, the dorsal stream is responsible for mapping sound to articulation and the ventral stream plays the role of mapping sound to meaning. Most researchers agree that the arcuate fasciculus (AF) is the neuroanatomical correlate of the dorsal steam; however, less is known about what constitutes the ventral one. Nevertheless, two hypo...

Individuals with aphasia have more problems detecting small differences between speech sounds than larger ones. This paper reports how phonemic processing is impaired and how this is influenced by speechreading. A non-word discrimination task was carried out with 'audiovisual', 'auditory only' and 'visual only' stimulus display. Subjects had to decide whether two presented stimuli were the same...

We propose ways of enriching the timbral potential of gestural sonic material captured via piezo or contact microphones, through latency-free convolution of the microphone signal with grains from a sound corpus. This creates a new way to combine the sonic richness of large sound corpora, easily accessible via navigation through a timbral descriptor space, with the intuitive gestural interaction...

The perception and production of non-native speech sounds is the key to learning a new language. The differences between the native and the target language sound systems cause learning problems, but orthographic conventions may also affect the learning process. We tested whether a misleading orthography in contrast to phonemic transcription affects the manner in which native Finns learn to prod...

Crowdsourcing technologies such as the use of web or smartphone applications enable the collection of large linguistic corpora. Such corpora allow for an analysis of various linguistic features. In the present contribution we analyzed data of >1500 speakers that were crowdsourced with the smartphone application ‘Dialäkt Äpp’ to examine one such feature: the articulation of /kh/ as [kx͡] in Swiss...

A system is described that aims to modify the performance of a musical recording (classical music) by changing the basic performance parameters tempo, sound level and tone duration. The input audio file is aligned with the corresponding score, which also contains extra information defining rule-based modifications of these parameters. The signal is decomposed using analysis-synthesis techniques...

Citation: Farquharson K (2015) Language or motor: reviewing categorical etiologies of speech sound disorders. Children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) exhibit marked weakness with accurate production of age-appropriate speech sounds (Lewis et al., 2006). For some of these children, the etiology of the SSD is clear (e.g., cleft palate, a genetic syndrome, or hearing loss). For others, the cau...

Orofacial clones can display speech articulation in an augmented mode, i.e. display all major speech articulators, including those usually hidden such as the tongue or the velum. Besides, a number of studies tend to show that the visual articulatory feedback provided by ElectroPalatoGraphy or ultrasound echography is useful for speech therapy. This paper describes the latest developments in aco...