Cognitive Processing of Chinese and Related Asian Languages

Cognitive Processing of Chinese and Related Asian Languages
Author: Hsuan-Chih Chen
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1997
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789622017771

The aim of this volume is to integrate the most recent research in the cognitive processing of Chinese and related Asian languages (i.e. Japanese and Korean) into a single academic reference. Because so much more was learned about the topic over the past several years, the proposed volume is intended to provide something like a state-of-art review and to capture what is currently going on in a new and rapidly expanding field.

Advances in Phonetics

Advances in Phonetics
Author: Angelika Braun
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783515076555

Inhalt: S. P. Whiteside / C. Hodgson: Development of Motor Speech S. P. Whiteside / R. A. Varley: Dual-Route Phonetic Encoding R. A. Varley / S. P. Whiteside: Evidence from Apraxia of Speech N. O. Schiller: Masked Priming of Sublexical Units J. Esling / J. A. W. Clayards: Laryngoscopic Analysis of Pharyngeal Articulations and Larynx-Height Voice Quality Settings A. Krasovitsky: Russian Vocalic Systems with Vowel Discordance H. Hollien / K. Liljegren / C. A. Martin / G. DeJong: Prediction of Intoxication Levels by Speech Analysis R. P. Dixit: Tongue-Palate Contact Patterns of Hindi H. Hollien / K. Nielson: Problems Created when Vowels Are Sung at Very High Pitches R. Garrison-Tull: Understanding Performance Problems of Cold-Speech in Automatic Speaker Recognition Systems S. Werner / M. Vainio: Standardized Comparison of Intonation Models D. Horga: The Long-Term Average Spectrum as a Measure of Voice Quality in L1 and L2 Speakers J. Rosenhouse: Pronunciation of Foreign Proper Names in Speakers of American English S. S. Sarma / S. S. Agrawal: Hindi Speech Data Bases for Research in Speech Recognition and Synthesis D. Stewart / J. Ming / F. J. Smith: Automatic Syllabification with Application to Continuous Speech Recognition "This book is an impressive collection of the most current work in the field. ... The editor, Dr. Braun, has done an excellent job of putting theses papers together in an easy-to-read format and capturing the essence of the IPS-98 meeting. The topics have a broad appeal and will familiarize the reader with the types of research currently going on in several areas of Phonetics. It is unusual to find a volume that demonstrates such diversity of topics with a common underlying theme. This book would be of great value to researchers and students alike." The Phonetician . (Franz Steiner 1999)

Speechreading by Humans and Machines

Speechreading by Humans and Machines
Author: David G. Stork
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 681
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3662130157

This book is one outcome of the NATO Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) Workshop, "Speechreading by Man and Machine," held at the Chateau de Bonas, Castera-Verduzan (near Auch, France) from August 28 to Septem ber 8, 1995 - the first interdisciplinary meeting devoted the subject of speechreading ("lipreading"). The forty-five attendees from twelve countries covered the gamut of speechreading research, from brain scans of humans processing bi-modal stimuli, to psychophysical experiments and illusions, to statistics of comprehension by the normal and deaf communities, to models of human perception, to computer vision and learning algorithms and hardware for automated speechreading machines. The first week focussed on speechreading by humans, the second week by machines, a general organization that is preserved in this volume. After the in evitable difficulties in clarifying language and terminology across disciplines as diverse as human neurophysiology, audiology, psychology, electrical en gineering, mathematics, and computer science, the participants engaged in lively discussion and debate. We think it is fair to say that there was an atmosphere of excitement and optimism for a field that is both fascinating and potentially lucrative. Of the many general results that can be taken from the workshop, two of the key ones are these: • The ways in which humans employ visual image for speech recogni tion are manifold and complex, and depend upon the talker-perceiver pair, severity and age of onset of any hearing loss, whether the topic of conversation is known or unknown, the level of noise, and so forth.

Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology

Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology
Author: Ulrike Gut
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2015-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110394588

The book is concerned with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and suprasegmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a postcolonial (“new”) variety of English. It focuses on the acquisition process and factors influencing it, based on insights from all three disciplines.

World Englishes

World Englishes
Author: Kingsley Bolton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780415315067

Phonetic Interpretation

Phonetic Interpretation
Author: John Local
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2004-02-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139449923

First published in 2003, Phonetic Interpretation presents innovative work from four core areas: phonological representations and the lexicon, phonetic interpretation and phrasal structure, phonetic interpretation and syllable structure, and phonology and natural speech production. Written by major figures in the fields of phonetics, phonology and speech perception, the chapters in this volume use a wide range of laboratory and instrumental techniques to analyse the production and perception of speech, their aim being to explore the relationship between the sounds of speech and the linguistic organisation that lies behind that. The chapters present evidence of the lively intellectual engagement of laboratory phonology practitioners with the complexities and richness of human language. The book continues the tradition of the series, Papers in Laboratory Phonology, by bringing linguistic theory to bear on an essential problem of linguistics: the relationship between mental models and the physical nature of speech.

The Exercise of Power in Communication

The Exercise of Power in Communication
Author: R. Schulze
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137478381

This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to give insight into how interactants co-construct different aspects of power in their everyday life.