Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively
remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a …

A comprehensive literature review is conducted to summarize and discuss prior findings on
how cochlear implants (CI) affect the users' abilities to produce and control vocal and …

Speech is a three-dimensional physical entity that consists of F0/pitch, intensity, and
duration. This paper is the last of three publications devoted to a comprehensive review of …

This study investigates cue-weighting differences in intonation perception between tonal
and non-tonal languages, specifically focusing on how native Spanish listeners and …

Most sociolinguistic work on variation focuses on how rates of occurrence or mean
measurements differ between speech communities and speakers. However, speakers and …

A transition-relevance place (TRP) represents a place in a conversation where a change of
speaker can occur. The appearance and use of these points in the dialogue ensures a …

Scholarly accounts of infant cry began in earnest in the late 1960s. Subsequent studies have
focused on creating a typology of cries in order to correlate them with specific pediatric …

Abstract Bolinger (1978: 475), one of the foremost authorities on prosody of a generation
ago, said that “Intonation is a half-tamed savage. To understand the tamed or linguistically …

Statement of problem Studies on the significance of intensity on speech production with a
tongue prosthesis are lacking, despite this being an important criterion in speech production …

This study examined phonetic backward transfer in 'Glaswasians', the ethnolinguistic
minority of first-generation bilingual immigrant Indians in Glasgow (Scotland), who present a …