Phonetic imitation has been found to be mediated by phonological contrast. For features
whose values vary around a phonological prototype, the imitation is distorted by the …

This research studies the error, bias, and noise of auditors' going concern opinion (GCO) in
predicting firm default and we examine the role of machine learning (ML) in impacting the …

The acoustic cues for prosodic prominence have been explored extensively, but one open
question is to what extent they differ by context. This study investigates the extent to which …

Objectives: Children with cochlear implants (CIs) face challenges in perceiving fundamental
frequency (F0) information because CIs do not transmit F0 effectively. In Mandarin, F0 can …

Introduction Older adults experiencing normal aging make up most patients seeking
services at audiology clinics. While research acknowledges that the speech perception …

Speech is produced continuously over time. So, the information it conveys, including
intonational functions, also unfolds over time. But many intonational functions are encoded …

The prosody of an utterance encodes multiple types of information simultaneously, including
information status of constituents—for example, by modulations in prosodic prominence to …

In line with the idea that language has evolved to be efficient and to avoid redundancy,
syntactic means of marking information structure have been derived from prosodic ones, and …

Prosodic focus has been well documented in many languages, and various acoustic cues
have been identified in focus production. However, the issue of focus domain has not been …

This study examined whether Korean learners of English attained native-like performance in
English focus prosody by conducting production and perception experiments using digit …