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The effect of speech rhythm and speaking rate on assessment of pronunciation in a second language
(Applied Psycholinguistics, 2019)
The study explores the effect of deviations from native speech rhythm and rate norms on the assessement of pronunciation mastery of a second language (L2) when the native language of the learner is either rhythmically ...
The Role of Native Language and the Fundamental Design of the Auditory System in Detecting Rhythm Changes
(Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing, 2019)
Purpose: We investigated whether rhythm discrimination
is mainly driven by the native language of the listener or
by the fundamental design of the human auditory system
and universal cognitive mechanisms shared by all ...
Regularity in speech rhythm as a social coalition signal
(Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2019)
Regular rhythm facilitates audiomotor entrainment and synchronization in motor behavior and vocalizations
between individuals. As rhythm entrainment between interacting agents is correlated with higher levels of ...
Speech rhythm as naturally occurring and culturally transmitted behavioral patterns
(Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2019)
Rhythm is fundamental to every motor activity. Neural and physiological mechanisms that underlie rhythmic cognition, in general, and rhythmic pattern generation, in particular, are evolutionarily ancient. As speech production ...
Statistical Speech Segmentation in Tone Languages: The Role of Lexical Tones
(Language and Speech, 2018)
Research has demonstrated distinct roles for consonants and vowels in speech processing. For
example, consonants have been shown to support lexical processes, such as the segmentation
of speech based on transitional ...
Cross-linguistic differences in the use of durational cues for the segmentation of a novel language
(Memory & Cognition, 2017)
It is widely accepted that duration can be exploited as phonological phrase final lengthening in the segmentation of a novel language, i.e., in extracting discrete constituents from continuous speech. The use of final ...
Speech Rhythm Convergence as a Social Coalition Signal
(Evolutionary Psychology, 2019)
Patterns of nonverbal and verbal behavior of interlocutors become more similar as communication progresses. Rhythm
entrainment promotes prosocial behavior and signals social bonding and cooperation. Yet, it is unknown if ...
Metacognitive Processing in Language Learning Tasks Is Affected by Bilingualism
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020)
We assessed the effect of bilingualism on metacognitive processing in the artificial language learning
task, in 2 experiments varying in the difficulty to segment the language. Following a study phase in which
participants ...
Electrophysiology of statistical learning: Exploring the online learning process and offline learning product
(European Journal of Neuroscience, 2020)
A continuous stream of syllables is segmented into discrete constituents based on
the transitional probabilities (TPs) between adjacent syllables by means of statistical
learning. However, we still do not know whether ...
Capturing Cross-linguistic Differences in Macro-rhythm: The Case of Italian and English
(Language and Speech, 2020)
We tested the hypothesis that languages can be classified by their degree of tonal rhythm (Jun, 2014). The tonal rhythms of English and Italian were quantified using the following parameters: (a) regularity of tonal ...