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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA192081

Entities

People

  • Michael Studdert-kennedy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Birds
  • Brain
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Experimental Design
  • Grammars
  • Human Development
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Psychology
  • Reliability

Fields of Study

  • Linguistics

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.