Our prior experience heavily influences our subjective time. One of such phenomena is repetition compression, that is, repeated stimuli are perceived shorter than novel stimuli. However, most of the studies on repetition compression used identical stimuli, leaving the question whether similar repetition effects could take place in phonological and semantic level repetition. We used Chinese char...

An experiment is described in which the speech rate of a short preceding or following context was manipulated in addition to that of a vowel or a consonant that carried a quantity distinction. The results showed the durations of these segments and the speech rate of their left and right context to be crucial for quantity perception.

In this paper, we analyzed the durational differences between learners and native speakers in various speech units from the perspective of that the contrast between the stressed and the unstressed is one of the most important features to characterize stress-timing of English by comparison with mora-timing of Japanese. The results showed that the lengthening and shortening of learner speech were...

Ever since the publication of Fromkin’s Slips of the Tongue in 1973, more and more psycholinguists have realized the importance of studying the slips of the tongue. Dell (1986) defined slips of the tongue as “unintended, nonhabitual deviation(s) from a speech plan”. That is, those speech errors are not due to an incomplete or incorrect language system, but to language processing problems. Most ...

This paper discusses the automatic evaluation of speech of children with cleft lip and palate (CLP). CLP speech shows special characteristics such as hypernasality, backing, and weakening of plosives. In total five criteria were subjectively assessed by an experienced speech expert on the phone level. This subjective evaluation was used as a gold standard to train a classification system. The a...

This study examines the effects of lexical stress on vowel quality in Iberian Spanish and Central Catalan and the relationship between phonetic variation caused by stress and speech rate. For Catalan, both absence of stress and fast speech rate result in a shrunken vowel space. For Spanish, the effects of speech rate are in line with those found for Catalan. Yet, unstressed vowels are character...

To tackle the problems of Doppler spectrum, aliasing caused by azimuth beam scanning and azimuthal serious non-uniform sampling in squint sliding spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with varying repetition frequency technology, method sub-aperture block-varying pulse (SBV-PRF) is proposed, where division judgement makes acquisition time each sub-block small enough so that bandwidth center ...

extended abstract 1. introduction repetition is a lingual phenomenon which in various languages and in different frames, has been studied. the whole or part of the base is repeated in this process. hence, in farsi language, repetition is classified by two parts, total and partial. when the base is repeated perfectly, it is called total reduplication and if some part of the base will be repeated...

This study investigated the effects of different output-based task repetition conditions on EFL learners’ speech act production. Three intact classes of English-major students constituted three instructional groups: (1) the explicit task-repetition (ETR) group, (2) the implicit task-repetition (ITR) group, and (3) the no-input task repetition (NTR) group. All the three groups engaged in t...