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Voice
About: Voice is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2393 publications have been published within this topic receiving 56637 citations.
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TL;DR: Stop voicing differentiation is accomplished in a similar fashion by bilingual children with NH and CIs, and both groups differentiate stop voicing in a language-specific fashion.
Abstract: Purpose This study focuses on stop voicing differentiation in bilingual children with normal hearing (NH) and their bilingual peers with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs). Method Twenty-...
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TL;DR: It is argued that early lexical representations are specified in very systematic ways, that not all phonological contrasts are encoded at the same time and that the phonological system of a language determines which contrasts are specified first in the representations of early words.
Abstract: This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on how much detail young children's word representations contain. We investigate early representations of place of articulation and voicing contrasts, inspired by previously attested asymmetrical patterns in children's early word productions. We tested Dutch-learning 20- and 24-month-olds’ perception of these fundamentally different contrasts in a mispronunciation-detection paradigm. Our results show that different kinds and directions of phonological changes yield different effects. Both 20- and 24-month-olds noticed coronal mispronunciations of labials, but not vice versa. The 24-month-olds noticed voiced mispronunciations of voiceless stops, but not vice versa, while the 20-month-olds failed to notice any voicing mispronunciations. We argue that early lexical representations are specified in very systematic ways, that not all phonological contrasts are encoded at the same time and that the phonological system of a language determines which contrasts are specified first in the representations of early words.
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: This article analyzed over 13000 bouts of laughter, in over 65 hours of unscripted, naturally occurring multiparty meetings, to identify discriminative contexts of voiced and unvoiced laughter.
Abstract: We have analyzed over 13000 bouts of laughter, in over 65 hours of unscripted, naturally occurring multiparty meetings, to identify discriminative contexts of voiced and unvoiced laughter Our results show that, in meetings, laughter is quite frequent, accounting for almost 10% of all vocal activity effort by time Approximately a third of all laughter is unvoiced, but meeting participants vary extensively in how often they employ voicing during laughter In spite of this variability, laughter appears to exhibit robust temporal characteristics Voiced laughs are on average longer than unvoiced laughs, and appear to correlate with temporally adjacent voiced laughter from other participants, as well as with speech from the laugher Unvoiced laughter appears to occur independently of vocal activity from other participants
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TL;DR: In this article, a new voicing cooccurrence pattern in Afrikaans is presented as an example of a pattern that arose via this third route of lexical accumulation, and evidence is also presented that this pattern is being learned as a grammatical constraint by Afrikaner speakers.
Abstract: Two explanations are offered in the literature for the origin of lexical patterns of consonantal voicing cooccurrence: (i) speaker-oriented: a cooccurrence pattern may result from voicing assimilation under ease-of-articulation pressures, and (ii) listener-oriented: a cooccurrence pattern may result from systematic misperception by listeners. This article argues for a third possible origin of such patterns: (iii) lexical accumulation: a series of unrelated sound changes may conspire to create a lexical pattern of voicing cooccurrence. Once introduced into the lexicon of some language through any of these three routes, speakers can elevate such a pattern to a grammatical principle. A new voicing cooccurrence pattern in Afrikaans is presented as an example of a pattern that arose via this third route of lexical accumulation. Evidence is also presented that this pattern is being learned as a grammatical constraint by Afrikaans speakers.
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01 Jan 1994
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