One of the questions about language processing that we’re interested in is how people provide information by emphasizing different words. For example, someone might say “Give me the RED one”, and emphasize the word RED to contrast it with a different color. How does the talker indicate this in the way they pronounce the word RED? .. Read more →
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Cue integration during spoken word recognition
One way for listeners to cope with variability in the speech signal is to use multiple acoustic cues when identifying speech sounds. Multiple cues often contribute to a single phonetic distinction in speech, and listeners can combine different sources of acoustic information to help resolve ambiguity. For example, one of the primary acoustic cues to the voicing distinction in English, the difference between the sounds ‘b’ and ‘p’, is voice-onset time (VOT)... Read more →
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