We present the first experimental evidence of a phenomenon in speech communication we
call “analog acoustic expression.” Speech is generally thought of as conveying information …

Phonetic research investigates how speakers and listeners use speech to convey
messages. The speech produced to encode a particular message can vary wildly …

This paper reports a study of the perception of affective information in conversational speech
utterances and shows that there are consistent differences in the acoustic features of same …

An illusion is explored in which a spoken phrase is perceptually transformed to sound like
song rather than speech, simply by repeating it several times over. In experiment I, subjects …

A fundamental issue for speech perception is one that is common to all psychological
accounts of perception, perceptual constancy. Speech perception is complicated because a …

Prosody is a central part of human speech, with prosodic modulations of the signal
expressing important communicative functions. Yet, the exact mechanisms of how listeners …

When preparing to speak, talkers typically take a breath. The perceptual effect of adding
naturally produced breath intake sounds to synthetic speech was examined. In experiment …

As semanticists, we are interested in how meaning works in natural language. However,
when we have an utterance, different parts of its meaning will behave differently with respect …

We revisit an article,“Perception of the Speech Code”(PSC), published in this journal 50
years ago (Liberman, Cooper, Shankweiler, & Studdert-Kennedy, 1967) and address one of …

The current project is a case study–and an extension–of the traditional investigation into
sound symbolism (Hinton et al., 1994). Several studies have shown that certain sounds …