We compare the complexity of idiosyncratic sound patterns involving American
English/ɹ/with the relative simplicity of clear/dark/l/-allophony patterns found in English and …

It is well known that congenitally blind adults have enhanced auditory processing for some
tasks. For instance, they show supra-normal capacity to perceive accelerated speech …

Research on visual and audiovisual speech information has profoundly influenced the fields
of psycholinguistics, perception psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Visual speech …

This paper introduces a paradigm shift regarding vocal learning simulations, in which the
communicative function of speech acquisition determines the learning process and …

This chapter describes ultrasound equipment and analysis followed by an overview of the
type of speech errors which can be viewed with Ultrasound Tongue Imaging (UTI). An …

Purpose The role of vision in speech representation was investigated in congenitally blind
speakers and sighted speakers by studying the correlates of contrastive focus, a prosodic …

Children with autism spectrum disorders have been reported to be less influenced by a
speaker's face during speech perception than those with typically development. To more …

Purpose: One of the strategies that can be used to support speech communication in deaf
children is cued speech, a visual code in which manual gestures are used as additional …

Compared to conversational speech, clear speech is produced with longer vowel duration,
greater intensity, increased contrasts between vowel categories, and decreased dispersion …

As existing descriptions are likely too narrow to reflect a broader range of articulatory
variability in Mandarin production, this study is undertaken to explore qualitative and …