Research on the exploitation of prosodic information in the comprehension of spoken
language is reviewed. The research falls into three main areas: the use of prosody in the …

Deficits in prosody have been consistently described as an integral part of the speech and
language disorder in autistic children (Kanner, 1946; Ornitz & Ritvo, 1976). Such deficits still …

Examined the prosodic characteristics of" motherese" in the speech of 24 German mothers
to their newborns. Each S was recorded in 3 observational conditions, while addressing (1) …

The ambition of this book is twofold: firstly, to update the state of the art in research on
simultaneous interpretation with contributions from modern linguistic and cognitive theory …

The word 'prosody'comes from ancient Greek, where it was used for a “song sung with
instrumental music”. In later times the word was used for the “science of versification” and …

Intended for courses in sensation and perception, this book covers the anatomy, physiology
and phenomenology of the way humans sense and perceive the world. It is grounded in …

The present paper examines the role of speech pitch in the perceptual separation of
simultaneous speech messages, when both messages are spoken by the same speaker …

The linguistic input to language learning is usually thought to consist of simple strings of
words. We argue that input must also include information about how words group into …

Linguistic analyses of tone and intonation, as well as experimental and clinical studies of
pitch in the speech signal, indicate that pitch cues play various roles in language behavior …

All primates vocalize on an expiratory airflow and they make use of the oscillation of the
vocal folds to generate sounds. The acoustic correlate of the rate of vibration is the …