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View article: Spoken language processing in noise by deaf and hard of hearing children: Effects of speaking rate
Spoken language processing in noise by deaf and hard of hearing children: Effects of speaking rate Open
While school-aged children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) spend much of the day in classrooms or playgrounds, little is known about how aspects of these environments, such as fast speech and background noise, affect their ability to…
View article: Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa)
Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa) Open
This study investigated the hypothesis that 9- to 11-month-old multilingual infants learning Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony languages (such as Akan) alongside other non-vowel harmony languages in Ghana (Africa) can use ATR harmony cues…
View article: The acquisition of plain–emphatic consonant contrasts by Arabic-speaking children: An acoustic study
The acquisition of plain–emphatic consonant contrasts by Arabic-speaking children: An acoustic study Open
Arabic emphatic consonants are claimed to be late-acquired, likely due to their motoric complexity, involving both coronal and pharyngeal/uvular constrictions. Children’s production has largely been studied using impressionistic data, with…
View article: Vowel-hyperarticulation in Infant-directed Speech: A Multi-method Meta-analysis
Vowel-hyperarticulation in Infant-directed Speech: A Multi-method Meta-analysis Open
There is a long-standing debate about the extent to which vowel hyperarticulation, the production of acoustically exaggerated vowels, occurs in Infant-Directed Speech (IDS). This exaggeration has been argued to result in clearer speech sou…
View article: Due to increased variability, the expanded vowel and tone space in Mandarin IDS does not lead to enhanced contrasts
Due to increased variability, the expanded vowel and tone space in Mandarin IDS does not lead to enhanced contrasts Open
Expanded vowel or tone space in IDS has traditionally been interpreted as evidence of enhanced acoustic contrasts. However, emerging evidence from various languages shows that the within-category acoustic variability of vowels and tones al…
View article: Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition
Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition Open
This study investigates how phonological competition affects real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) preschoolers compared to peers with hearing in the normal range (NH). Three-to-six-year olds (27 with NH, 18 D…
View article: Real-time Spoken Word Recognition in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Preschoolers: Effects of Phonological Competition
Real-time Spoken Word Recognition in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Preschoolers: Effects of Phonological Competition Open
This study investigates how phonological competition affects real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) preschoolers compared to peers with hearing in the normal range (NH). Three-to-six-year olds (27 with NH, 18 w…
View article: The acquisition of plain-emphatic consonant contrasts by Arabic-speaking children: an acoustic study
The acquisition of plain-emphatic consonant contrasts by Arabic-speaking children: an acoustic study Open
Arabic emphatic consonants are claimed to be late-acquired, likely due to their motoric complexity, involving both coronal and pharyngeal/uvular constrictions. Children's production has largely been studied using impressionistic data, with…
View article: Exploring the nature of multilingual input to infants in multiple caregiver families in an African city: the case of Accra (Ghana)
Exploring the nature of multilingual input to infants in multiple caregiver families in an African city: the case of Accra (Ghana) Open
Examining the language input experiences of infants growing up in multilingual Africanenvironments is essential to understanding their language acquisition. We explored the languageinput to 3;0 -12;0-month-old infants (N = 121) in Ghana (S…
View article: Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa)
Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa) Open
This study investigated the hypothesis that 9- to 11-month-old multilingual infants learning Akan (an Advanced Tongue Root [ATR] harmony and understudied language) alongside other non-vowel harmony languages in Ghana (Africa) can use ATR h…
View article: Vowel harmony preferences in infants growing up in multilingual Ghana (Africa).
Vowel harmony preferences in infants growing up in multilingual Ghana (Africa). Open
Infants' preference for vowel harmony (VH, a phonotactic constraint that requires vowels in a word to be featurally similar) is thought to be language-specific: Monolingual infants learning VH languages show a listening preference for VH p…
View article: Vowel-hyperarticulation in Infant-directed Speech: A Multi-method Meta-analysis
Vowel-hyperarticulation in Infant-directed Speech: A Multi-method Meta-analysis Open
There is a long-standing debate about the extent to which vowel hyperarticulation, the production of acoustically exaggerated vowels, occurs in Infant-Directed Speech (IDS). This exaggeration has been argued to result in clearer speech sou…
View article: Vowel-hyperarticulation in Infant-directed Speech: A Multi-method Meta-analysis
Vowel-hyperarticulation in Infant-directed Speech: A Multi-method Meta-analysis Open
There is a long-standing debate about the extent to which vowel hyperarticulation, the production of acoustically exaggerated vowels, occurs in Infant-Directed Speech (IDS). This exaggeration has been argued to result in clearer speech sou…
View article: Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021 Open
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for …
View article: Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021 Open
A survey of diversity in leading language acquisition journals revealed that only 2% of the 7,000+ languages of the world are represented. With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to this literature, we organ…
View article: Phonological features emerge substance-freely from the phonetics and the morphology
Phonological features emerge substance-freely from the phonetics and the morphology Open
Theories of phonology claim variously that phonological elements are either innate or emergent, and either substance-full or substance-free. A hitherto underdeveloped source of evidence for choosing between the four possible combinations o…
View article: Reconsidering lateral vocalisation: Evidence from perception and production of Australian English /l/
Reconsidering lateral vocalisation: Evidence from perception and production of Australian English /l/ Open
Lateral vocalisation is assumed to arise from changes in coronal articulation but is typically characterised perceptually without linking the vocalised percept to a coronal articulation. Therefore, we examined how listeners' perception of …
View article: JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter
JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: JCL volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
JCL volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: JCL volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
JCL volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: JCL volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
JCL volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Feature generalization in Dutch–German bilingual and monolingual children’s speech production
Feature generalization in Dutch–German bilingual and monolingual children’s speech production Open
Dutch and German employ voicing contrasts, but Dutch lacks the ‘voiced’ dorsal plosive /ɡ/. We exploited this accidental phonological gap, measuring the presence of prevoicing and voice onset time durations during speech production to dete…
View article: JCL volume 48 issue 6 Cover and Front matter
JCL volume 48 issue 6 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Infants’ Implicit Rhyme Perception in Child Songs and Its Relationship With Vocabulary
Infants’ Implicit Rhyme Perception in Child Songs and Its Relationship With Vocabulary Open
Rhyme perception is an important predictor for future literacy. Assessing rhyme abilities, however, commonly requires children to make explicit rhyme judgements on single words. Here we explored whether infants already implicitly process r…
View article: Perceptual vowel contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes
Perceptual vowel contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes Open
In Australian English rimes, coarticulation between coda /l/ and its preceding vowel has the potential to attenuate cues that contribute to phonological vowel contrast. Therefore, vowel-/l/ coarticulation may increase ambiguity between pre…
View article: Neural network models for phonology and phonetics
Neural network models for phonology and phonetics Open
This paper argues that if phonological and phonetic phenomena found in language data and in experimental data all have to be accounted for within a single framework, then that framework will have to be based on neural networks. We introduc…
View article: Six‐month‐old infants recognize phrases in song and speech
Six‐month‐old infants recognize phrases in song and speech Open
Infants exploit acoustic boundaries to perceptually organize phrases in speech. This prosodic parsing ability is well‐attested and is a cornerstone to the development of speech perception and grammar. However, infants also receive linguist…