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  1. 1. Lexical competition and predictive certainty in speech recognition: Modulations of pre-activation negativity amplitude by continuations, entropy and inhibition

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Fonetik

    Author : Anna Hjortdal; [2022]
    Keywords : Speech perception; spoken word recognition; lexical competition; ERPs; PrAN.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : A growing body of evidence suggests that speech recognition is facilitated by rapid activation of possible lexical candidates and subsequent competition and selection. An event-related potential (ERP) component 136-204 ms after word onset, the pre-activation negativity (PrAN), correlates with lexical competition. READ MORE

  3. 2. Effect of phonological and semantic predictability on perceived clarity of degraded speech for non-native listeners

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Kaori Hoshi Larsson; [2022]
    Keywords : speech perception; speech recognition; perceptual clarity; non-native; noise-vocoding; predictability; working memory; verbal fluency;

    Abstract : Many of us have experienced that speech in a non-native language under noise can be challenging. This study examined whether semantic and phonological predictability improves the intelligibility of degraded speech in a non-native language. An online experiment was conducted with 15 participants. READ MORE

  4. 3. Mandarin L1 speakers’ difficulty with phonetic perception in English as an L2

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Ida Gisslén; [2021]
    Keywords : Speech Perception; Phonemes; Phonetic Perception; HVPT; ORDT;

    Abstract : The study focuses on three research questions. The first question addresses whether it is possible to improve phonetic perception in English as an L2 for Chinese primary school children speaking Mandarin as an L1, through the didactic methods High Variability Phonetic Training and Onset Rhyme Detection Test. READ MORE

  5. 4. Tracking Linguistic Primitives: The Phonosemantic Realization of Fundamental Oppositional Pairs

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Niklas Johansson; [2014]
    Keywords : phonosemantics; sound symbolism; iconicity; non-arbitratiness; semantic typology; phonetic typology; universals; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how cross-linguistic phoneme distributions of 56 fundamental oppositional concepts can reveal semantic relationships by looking into the linguistic forms of 75 genetically and areally distributed languages. Based on proposals of semantic primes (Goddard 2002), reduced Swadesh lists (Holman et al. READ MORE

  6. 5. Speech Intelligibility Measurement on the basis of ITU-T Recommendation P.863

    University essay from Laboratoriet för intelligenta system

    Author : SWATANTRA GHIMIRE; [2012]
    Keywords : Speech Intelligibility; POLQA;

    Abstract : Objective speech intelligibility measurement techniques like AI (Articulation Index) and AI based STI (Speech Transmission Index) fail to assess speech intelligibility in modern telecommunication networks that use several non-linear processing for enhancing speech. Moreover, these techniques do not allow prediction of single individual CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant) word intelligibility scores. READ MORE