Search Results - "Kember, Heather"

The influence of speaker and listener variables on intelligibility of dysarthric speech by Patel, Rupal, Usher, Nicole, Kember, Heather, Russell, Scott, Laures-Gore, Jacqueline

“…Highlights • We examine the intelligibility of speakers with dysarthria in 3 different listening conditions: single words, sentences and words extracted from…”
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Prosodic cues in infant-directed speech facilitate young children’s conversational turn predictions by Kalashnikova, Marina, Kember, Heather

“…•One and three-year-olds predict turn transitions in conversational interactions.•Predictions were assessed in conversations using infant- and adult-directed…”
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The Processing of Linguistic Prominence by Kember, Heather, Choi, Jiyoun, Yu, Jenny, Cutler, Anne

“…Prominence, the expression of informational weight within utterances, can be signaled by prosodic highlighting (head-prominence, as in English) or by position…”
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Inducing speech errors in dysarthria using tongue twisters by Kember, Heather, Connaghan, Kathryn, Patel, Rupal

“…Although tongue twisters have been widely use to study speech production in healthy speakers, few studies have employed this methodology for individuals with…”
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Feasibility of augmenting text with visual prosodic cues to enhance oral reading by Patel, Rupal, Kember, Heather, Natale, Sara

“…•We developed a novel reading software to augment text with visual prosodic cues.•We assessed the feasibility of the software on a group of beginning…”
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Inducing speech errors in dysarthria using tongue twisters: Tongue twister errors in dysarthria by Kember, Heather, Connaghan, Kathryn, Patel, Rupal

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Phonological Encoding in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from Tongue Twisters by Kember, Heather, Croot, Karen, Patrick, Ellis

“…Models of connected speech production in Mandarin Chinese must specify how lexical tone, speech segments, and phrase-level prosody are integrated in speech…”
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