For much of its history, categorical perception was treated as a foundational theory of
speech perception, which suggested that quasi-discrete categorization was a goal of speech …

Every day, listeners encounter a wide range of acoustic signals. Successfully solving this
variability problem allows them to interpret these signals accurately. While this mechanism …

Previous studies have shown that Chinese speakers and non‐Chinese speakers exhibit
different patterns of cross‐modal congruence for the lexical tones of Mandarin Chinese …

In acoustic phonetics, there is limited research about individual differences among bilinguals
with different language balances. Using a picture description task, we recorded 942 vowel …

While the Mandarin alveolar-retroflex phoneme contrast has been extensively studied in
Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin, little analysis exists for the Singapore variety of Mandarin. In …

Adult perception of voice onset time (VOT) for early bilinguals of English and Mandarin
shows a mix of language-specific features (VOT boundary) and features shared across both …

Previous studies have demonstrated that bilinguals have discrete representations for
speech sounds that are phonemic in both of their languages. In a lexical identification task …

Categorical perception work in bilinguals has been found to support a Dual Language
System Hypothesis, which states that bilinguals use one of two language-specific phonemic …

In this thesis, we set out to determine if we could find evidence for language learning
advantages in bilingual adults that stem from language-specific transfer effects. The …

Данное исследование лежит в области применения технологии эмоционального
анализа текстов. Целью исследования является статистическое моделирование …