This study investigated suprasegmental variables of syllable stress and intonation contours in contextual speech produced during simultaneous communication (SC) by inexperienced signers. Ten hearing inexperienced sign language users were recorded under SC and speech-alone (SA) conditions speaking a set of sentences containing stressed versus unstressed versions of the same syllables and a set o...

A boy's acquisition of Pig Latin was monitored throughout the year preceding first grade. Abilities underlying this game include the identification of words, deletion of the first syllabic onset (i.e. prevocalic consonants) of each word, blending of this onset and the suffix [ei] onto the word's end, and short-term memory for speech units. Performance improved over time as the underlying abilit...

This study examines English-speaking children's truncation patterns (i.e., syllable deletion patterns) in multisyllabic words to determine if they are consistent with metrical constraints or perceptual biases. It also examines segmental influences on children's truncations. Children, age 22-34 months, produced three-syllable novel and real words and four-syllable real words, which varied across...

Earlier computations on the work of separation of boundaries with adsorbed solute atmospheres are reconsidered in terms of reversible work cycles. Special attention is given to two limiting cases. These are the separation of a material interface under fully equilibrated conditions, for which the chemical potential of the adsorbed solute remains constant, and separation under constrained conditi...

We present EPG (electropalatography) and EMA (electro-magnetic articulometry) data from two female speakers of Arrernte, a language of Central Australia. We focus on the apical consonants /t/ and /ʈ/, both of which have previously been shown to have a higher spectral centre of gravity for the stop burst when preceding a stressed syllable. Articulatory results suggest that the tongue is most ret...

This study investigates the effects of stress on the spectral properties of fricative noise in Standard Modern Greek (SMG). Twenty female speakers of SMG participated in the study. Fricatives were produced in stressed and unstressed positions in two vowel place positions: back and front vowels. Acoustic measurements were taken and the temporal and spectral properties of fricatives—using spectra...

Insecticides are thought to be among the major factors contributing to current declines in bee populations. However, detoxification mechanisms in healthy, unstressed honey bees are poorly characterised. Alkaloids are naturally encountered in pollen and nectar, and we used nicotine as a model compound to identify the mechanisms involved in detoxification processes in honey bees. Nicotine and neo...

• Speakers are sensitive to auditorily perturbed speech timing. Response strategies depend on stress pattern and/or syllable position. Insight into timing requires consideration of multiple prosodic levels. Durational adjustments were often accompanied by changes in intensity and other suprasegmentals. This study examines speakers’ reaction focally applied temporal real-time auditory feedback p...

This paper proposes a pilot experiment on Korean spontaneous speech. Based on a corpus recorded from a television debate show in which we have clear speech expressions with grammatically correct utterances, and less disfluency, like hesitations or emotional expression. Phonosyntactic approach is adopted for a global prosodic form. 4 grammatical morphemes were collected and measured in F0 variat...