Abstract Words are often pronounced very differently in formal speech than in everyday
conversations. In conversational speech, they may contain weaker segments, fewer sounds …

This study investigates prosodic planning in a reading task in German. We analyse how the
utterance length and syntactic complexity of an upcoming sentence affect two acoustic …

Many studies report shorter acoustic durations, more coarticulation and reduced articulatory
targets for frequent words. This study investigates a factor ignored in discussions on the …

This study investigates the influence of speech style, duration, contextual factors, and sex on
vowel dispersion and variability in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec, an endangered language spoken in …

This paper examines the effects of lexical stress and speech rate on vowel quality and
duration in Central Catalan and Iberian Spanish and compares the patterns of phonetic …

We investigated the use of language-specific intonational cues to word segmentation in
French. Participants listened to phonemically identical sequences such as/selafij/, C'est la …

This study examines whether second language (L2) learners' processing of an intonationally
cued lexical contrast is facilitated when intonational cues signal a segmental contrast in the …

A growing body of evidence shows that brain oscillations track speech. This mechanism is
thought to maximize processing efficiency by allocating resources to important speech …

Purpose: Amateur singing is a universal, accessible, and enjoyable musical activity that may
have positive impacts on human communication. However, evidence of an impact of singing …

Abstract Purpose Task-independent (eg, Ballard et al., 2003) and task-dependent models
(eg, Ziegler, 2003) differ in their predictions regarding the learning transfer from non-speech …