An eye-tracking experiment examined contextual flexibility in speech processing in response to distortions in spoken input. Dutch participants heard Dutch sentences containing critical words and saw four-picture displays. The name of one picture either had the same onset phonemes as the critical word or had a different first phoneme and rhymed. Participants fixated on onset-overlap more than rh...

This study investigates the timing of stød, a type phonological nonmodal phonation related to creaky voice in Danish, relative syllable. Stød-bearing syllables are characterized by high fundamental frequency (F0) and modal at beginning syllable followed nonmodal, often low F0 towards end (the stød phase proper). However, these two phases each other has been debated. To investigate this, through...

results linear mixed model analyses showed that athletes slept on average 43 minutes longer when they slept during usual (night) times than during abnormal (day) times. in general, sleep duration decreased during the race with on average 18 minutes per period. conclusions this pilot study shows that, even under extreme violation of sleep hygiene rules, there still is an apparent effect of circa...

Poetry is an artistic form of communication that may or may not contain meter, rhyme, or lexical content [1]. We examined how the temporal regularity of spoken German poetry varied as a function of these features. Using a beat tracker that was previously used to measure speech rate based on moments of acoustic stress [2], we examined how stress rate and variability were influenced by meter, rhy...

Developmental dyslexia is often characterized by a dual deficit in both word recognition accuracy and general processing speed. While previous research into dyslexic word recognition may have suffered from speed-accuracy trade-off, the present study employed a novel eye-tracking task that is less prone to such confounds. Participants (10 dyslexics and 12 controls) were asked to look at real wor...

In this paper, we discuss the interactive visualization project “How Does ‘Hamilton,’ the Non Stop, Hip-hop Broadway Sensation Tap Rap’s Master Rhymes to Blur Musical Lines?” and the rhyme-pattern analysis algorithm that made the piece possible. This interactive extracts and describes the rhyme patterns interlaced throughout Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit “Hamilton,” analyzing their higher-o...