Voice modulatory cues such as variations in fundamental frequency, duration and pauses
are key factors for structuring vocal signals in human speech and vocal communication in …

The outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 has had a huge impact on people's daily life. Many
restaurant businesses have been greatly affected by it. Consumers' preferences for catering …

Lengthening of segments at the end of prosodic domains is commonly considered a
universal phenomenon, but language-specific variation has also been reported, specifically …

While there exist scores of natural languages, each with its unique features and
idiosyncrasies, they all share a unifying theme: enabling human communication. We may …

More than 30 years have passed since Mehler et al.(1988) proposed that newborns can
discriminate between languages that belong to different rhythm classes: stress-, syllable-or …

The redundancy hypothesis proposes that older listeners need a larger array of acoustic
cues than younger listeners for effective speech perception. This research investigated this …

A prerequisite for spoken language learning is segmenting continuous speech into words.
Amongst many possible cues to identify word boundaries, listeners can use both transitional …

Albanian (endonym: Shqip; Glotto: alba1268) is an Indo-European language which has
been suggested to form an independent branch of the Indo-European family since the …

Musical expertise is known to affect speech perception at units below clause/sentence. This
study investigated whether the musician's advantage extends to a higher and more central …

We review and elaborate an account of consonantal strength that is founded on the model of
speech as a modulated carrier signal. The stronger the consonant, the greater the …