Purpose Literature was reviewed on the development of vowels in children's speech and on
vowel disorders in children and adults, with an emphasis on studies using acoustic methods …

Research on language-specific tuning in speech perception has focused mainly on
consonants, while that on non-native vowel perception has failed to address whether the …

This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a neuroimaging technique that has
undergone tremendous growth over the last decade due to methodological advantages over …

It is an old-standing debate in the field of speech communication to determine whether
speech perception involves auditory or multisensory representations and processing …

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of an emerging new framework for
understanding early phonetic development—the Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework …

Eighty-seven years ago, Köhler reported that the majority of students picked the same
answer in a quiz: Which novel word form ('maluma'or 'takete') went best with which abstract …

To what extent do second language (L2) learners benefit from instruction that includes
corrective feedback (CF) on L2 speech perception? This article addresses this question by …

This paper reports on the articulatory–acoustic relationships involved during vocal tract
growth. Data were taken from a database of ten French vowels uttered by 15 speakers …

Most investigations of the representation and processing of speech sounds focus on their
segmental representations, and considerably less is known about the representation of …