The temporal properties of speech appear to play a more important role in linguistic
contrasts than has hitherto been appreciated. Therefore, a new framework for describing the …

Phonetics is the area of linguistics that studies the production and perception of speech
sounds. Research in the past decades has clearly shown that speech is extremely variable …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS IN LINGUISTICS Edited by
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The major goal of the present study is to provide a contribution to the enterprise of
increasing the ties between phonology and phonetics within linguistic theory. With this goal …

The purpose of the present study is to assess the contribution of various phonetic and
phonological factors to the perception of global foreign accent. Two native Spanish speakers …

This study evaluated the relationship between specific acoustic features of speech and
perceptual judgments of word intelligibility of adults with cerebral palsy-dysarthria. Use of a …

This study examined changes in voice and speech production in a patient with Parkinson
disease as he increased vocal intensity following 1 month of intensive voice treatment …

The topic of compression has been discussed quite extensively in the last 20 years (eg,
Braida et al., 1982;,;;; and 2002;;;;; Verschuure et al., 1996;). However, the latest …

How do listeners integrate temporally distributed phonemic information into coherent
representations of syllables and words? For example, increasing the silence interval …

Historically, central auditory responses have been studied for their sensitivity to various
parameters of tone and noise burst stimulation, with response rate plotted as a function of …