The emerging viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are deeply
rooted in the body's interactions with the world. This position actually houses a number of …

When humans talk without conventionalized arrangements, they engage in conversation—
that is, a continuous and largely nonsimultaneous exchange in which speakers take turns …

An accessible yet in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics, fully
updated and revised This broad, interdisciplinary textbook investigates how speech can be …

Musicologists and linguists have often suggested that the prosody of a culture's spoken
language can influence the structure of its instrumental music. However, empirical data …

Given its practical implications, the effect of musicianship on language learning has been
vastly researched. Interestingly, growing evidence also suggests that language experience …

This study examined whether 30 learners of Japanese in the United States who engaged in
a semester‐long video‐based eTandem course made gains in global language …

The present study investigated the extent to which native English listeners' perception of
Japanese length contrasts can be modified with perceptual training, and how their …

In two word-spotting experiments, Japanese listeners detected Japanese words faster in
vowel contexts (eg, agura, to sit cross-legged, in oagura) than in consonant contexts (eg …

Abstract In Kinyarwanda (Bantu, Rwanda), a high tone can occur on either the first or the
second mora of a syllable. A study of f₀ timing in the language was undertaken to determine …

Japanese moraic nasal/N/is a nasal segment having the status of an independent mora. In
utterance-medial position, it is realized as a nasal segment sharing the same place of …