Status Report on Speech Research.
Abstract
Contents: Examination of perceptual reorganization of nonnative speech contrasts: Zulu click discrimination by English-speaking adults and infants; Context effects in two-month-old infants' perception of labio-dental/interdental fricative contrasts; The phoneme as a perceptuomotor structure; Consonant-vowel cohesiveness in speech production as revealed by initial and final consonant exchanges; Word-level coarticulation and shortening in Italian and English speech; Awareness of phonological segments and reading ability in Italian children; Grammatical information effects in auditory word recognition; Talkers' signaling of new and old words in speech and listeners' perception and use of the distinction; Word-initial consonant length in Pattani Malay; The perception of word-initial consonant length: Pattani Malay; Perception of the M-N distinction in VC syllables; and Orchestrating acoustic cues to linguistic effect.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA192081
Entities
People
- Michael Studdert-kennedy