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Perceptual assimilation and discrimination of non-native vowel contrasts by Tyler, Michael D, Best, Catherine T, Faber, Alice, Levitt, Andrea G

“…Research on language-specific tuning in speech perception has focused mainly on consonants, while that on non-native vowel perception has failed to address…”
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Rhythm in the Speech and Music of Jazz and Riddim Musicians by Carpenter, Angela C., Levitt, Andrea G.

“…Previous research has demonstrated similarities in the rhythmic characteristics of the speech and instrumental music within individual languages, such as…”
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Computational simulation of CV combination preferences in babbling by Nam, Hosung, Goldstein, Louis M., Giulivi, Sara, Levitt, Andrea G., Whalen, D.H.

“…There is a tendency for spoken consonant–vowel (CV) syllables, in babbling in particular, to show preferred combinations: labial consonants with central…”
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A Comparison of Rhythm in English Dialects and Music by McGowan, Rebecca W., Levitt, Andrea G.

“…Informal Observations have Often been Made Thata country's language is reflected in its instrumental music. Limited research exists studying similarities…”
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VOT in the babbling of French- and English-learning infants by Whalen, D.H., Levitt, Andrea G., Goldstein, Louis M.

“…Different languages use voice onset time (VOT) in different ways to signal the voicing contrast, for example, short lag/long lag (English) vs. prevoiced/short…”
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Biomechanically Preferred Consonant-Vowel Combinations Fail to Appear in Adult Spoken Corpora by Whalen, D. H., Giulivi, Sara, Nam, Hosung, Levitt, Andrea G., Hallé, Pierre, Goldstein, Louis M.

“…Certain consonant/vowel (CV) combinations are more frequent than would be expected from the individual C and V frequencies alone, both in babbling and, to a…”
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An Articulatory Phonology Account of Preferred Consonant-Vowel Combinations by Giulivi, Sara, Whalen, D. H., Goldstein, Louis M., Nam, Hosung, Levitt, Andrea G.

“…Certain consonant/vowel combinations (labial/central, coronal/front, velar/back) are more frequent in babbling as well as, to a lesser extent, in adult…”
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The universality of intrinsic F0 of vowels by Whalen, D H, Levitt, Andrea G

“…In a cross-linguistic survey of 31 languages from 11 language families (data from published sources), high vowels are universally found to have higher…”
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Response to MacNeilage and Davis and to Oller by Whalen, D. H., Giulivi, Sara, Goldstein, Louis M., Nam, Hosung, Levitt, Andrea G.

“…The article by MacNeilage and Davis in this issue, entitled "In Defense of the 'Frames, then Content' (FC) Perspective on Speech Acquisition: A Response to Two…”
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Evidence for language-specific rhythmic influences in the reduplicative babbling of French- and English-learning infants by Levitt, A G, Wang, Q

“…The reduplicative babbling of five French- and five English-learning infants was examined for evidence of language-specific rhythmic patterns. Three types of…”
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Intrinsic F0 of vowels in the babbling of 6-, 9-, and 12-month-old French- and English-learning infants by Whalen, D H, Levitt, A G, Hsiao, P L, Smorodinsky, I

“…In every language so far examined, high vowels such as [i] and [u] tend to have higher fundamental frequencies (F0s) than low vowels such as [a]. This…”
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Intonational differences between the reduplicative babbling of French- and English-learning infants by Whalen, D H, Levitt, A G, Wang, Q

“…The two- and three-syllable reduplicative babbling of five French-learning and five English-learning infants (0;5 to 1;1) was examined in two ways for…”
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From Babbling towards the Sound Systems of English and French: A Longitudinal Two-Case Study by Levitt, Andrea G, Utman, Jennifer G. Aydelott

“…Investigates the utterances of 1 French and 1 U.S. infant at 0; 5,0; 8,0; 11, and 12 by transcribing and acoustically analyzing them for syllable duration and…”
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Biomechanically preferred consonant-vowel combinations fail to appear in adult lexicons and spoken corpora by Whalen, Douglas H., Giulivi, Sara, Nam, Hosung, Levitt, Andrea G., Hallé, Pierre, Goldstein, Louis M.

“…Certain consonant/vowel (CV) combinations are more frequent than would be expected from the individual C and V frequencies alone, both in babbling and, to a…”
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The universality of intrinsic F 0 of vowels by Whalen, D.H., Levitt, Andrea G.

“…The tendency for high vowels such as [i] and [u] to have higher fundamental frequencies (F 0s) than low vowels such as [a] has been found in every language so…”
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Consonant-vowel place linkages in the babbling of 6-, 9- and 12-month-old learners of French, English, and Mandarin by Giulivi, Sara, Whalen, D. H., Goldstein, Louis M., Levitt, Andrea G.

“…The place of articulation of consonants and vowels in CV syllables in babbling has been claimed to be linked, such that front vowels predominantly occur with…”
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Accessibility of the voicing distinction for learning phonological rules by Healy, A F, Levitt, A G

“…In 3 experiments, a series of nonsense syllables ending in conss was presented to adult Ss (N = 60, 48, 72) who had to discover or learn a rule classifying the…”
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The relative accessibility of semantic and deep-structure syntactic concepts by Healy, A F, Levitt, A G

“…Three experiments were conducted to determine the relative accessibility of semantic and deep-structure syntactic concepts. In Experiment 1, which employed a…”
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Prosodic characteristics of register variation in the read speech of adult native speakers of French by Levitt, Andrea G., Geoffrion, Jeannine

“…Ten female native speakers of French were asked to read two paragraphs in each of three register styles: to a friend (native), to a nonnative speaker…”
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Prosodic features of foreigner talk register in the speech of 10- to 11- and 6- to 7-year-old American children by Sullivan, Jennifer, Levitt, Andrea G.

“…At what age and in what ways do children begin to modify their speech in the presence of a non-native speaker? Two groups of six American children each, three…”
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