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Economy of effort in different speaking conditions. I. A preliminary study of intersubject differences and modeling issues by Perkell, Joseph S, Zandipour, Majid, Matthies, Melanie L, Lane, Harlan

“…This study explores the hypothesis that clear speech is produced with greater "articulatory effort" than normal speech. Kinematic and acoustic data were…”
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Categorization in the Perception of Breathy Voice Quality and Its Relation to Voice Production in Healthy Speakers by Park, Yeonggwang, Perkell, Joseph S, Matthies, Melanie L, Stepp, Cara E

“…Purpose: Previous studies of speech articulation have shown that individuals who can perceive smaller differences between similar-sounding phonemes showed…”
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An investigation of the relation between sibilant production and somatosensory and auditory acuity by Ghosh, Satrajit S., Matthies, Melanie L., Maas, Edwin, Hanson, Alexandra, Tiede, Mark, Ménard, Lucie, Guenther, Frank H., Lane, Harlan, Perkell, Joseph S.

“…The relation between auditory acuity, somatosensory acuity and the magnitude of produced sibilant contrast was investigated with data from 18 participants. To…”
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The distinctness of speakers' productions of vowel contrasts is related to their discrimination of the contrasts by PERKELL, Joseph S, GUENTHER, Frank H, LANE, Harlan, MATTHIES, Melanie L, STOCKMANN, Ellen, TIEDE, Mark, ZANDIPOUR, Majid

“…This study addresses the hypothesis that the more accurately a speaker discriminates a vowel contrast, the more distinctly the speaker produces that contrast…”
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The Distinctness of Speakers' /S/-/[Integral]/ Contrast Is Related to Their Auditory Discrimination and Use of an Articulatory Saturation Effect by Perkell, Joseph S, Matthies, Melanie L, Tiede, Mark, Lane, Harlan, Zandipour, Majid, Marrone, Nicole, Stockmann, Ellen, Guenther, Frank H

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Effects of masking noise on vowel and sibilant contrasts in normal-hearing speakers and postlingually deafened cochlear implant users by PERKELL, Joseph S, DENNY, Margaret, LANE, Harlan, GUENTHER, Frank, MATTHIES, Melanie L, TIEDE, Mark, VICK, Jennell, ZANDIPOUR, Majid, BURTON, Ellen

“…The role of auditory feedback in speech production was investigated by examining speakers' phonemic contrasts produced under increases in the noise to signal…”
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Time course of speech changes in response to unanticipated short-term changes in hearing state by Perkell, Joseph S., Lane, Harlan, Denny, Margaret, Matthies, Melanie L., Tiede, Mark, Zandipour, Majid, Vick, Jennell, Burton, Ellen

“…The timing of changes in parameters of speech production was investigated in six cochlear implant users by switching their implant microphones off and on a…”
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Effects of Short- and Long-Term Changes in Auditory Feedback on Vowel and Sibilant Contrasts by Lane, Harlan, Matthies, Melanie L, Guenther, Frank H, Denny, Margaret, Perkell, Joseph S, Stockmann, Ellen, Tiede, Mark, Vick, Jennell, Zandipour, Majid

“…Purpose: To assess the effects of short- and long-term changes in auditory feedback on vowel and sibilant contrasts and to evaluate hypotheses arising from a…”
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Interactions of speaking condition and auditory feedback on vowel production in postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants by Ménard, Lucie, Polak, Marek, Denny, Margaret, Burton, Ellen, Lane, Harlan, Matthies, Melanie L., Marrone, Nicole, Perkell, Joseph S., Tiede, Mark, Vick, Jennell

“…This study investigates the effects of speaking condition and auditory feedback on vowel production by postlingually deafened adults. Thirteen cochlear implant…”
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Tongue surface displacement during bilabial stops by Svirsky, M A, Stevens, K N, Matthies, M L, Manzella, J, Perkell, J S, Wilhelms-Tricarico, R

“…The goals of this study were to characterize tongue surface displacement during production of bilabial stops and to refine current estimates of vocal-tract…”
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Perception and production of /r/ allophones improve with hearing from a cochlear implant by Matthies, Melanie L., Guenther, Frank H., Denny, Margaret, Perkell, Joseph S., Burton, Ellen, Vick, Jennell, Lane, Harlan, Tiede, Mark, Zandipour, Majid

“…Tongue shape can vary greatly for allophones of /r/ produced in different phonetic contexts but the primary acoustic cue used by listeners, lowered F3, remains…”
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On the Structure of Phoneme Categories in Listeners with Cochlear Implants by Lane, Harlan, Denny, Margaret, Guenther, Frank H, Hanson, Helen M, Marrone, Nicole, Matthies, Melanie L, Perkell, Joseph S, Stockmann, Ellen, Tiede, Mark, Vick, Jennell, Zandipour, Majid

“…Purpose: To describe cochlear implant users' phoneme labeling, discrimination, and prototypes for a vowel and a sibilant contrast, and to assess the effects of…”
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Effects of bite blocks and hearing status on vowel production by Lane, Harlan, Denny, Margaret, Guenther, Frank H., Matthies, Melanie L., Menard, Lucie, Perkell, Joseph S., Stockmann, Ellen, Tiede, Mark, Vick, Jennell, Zandipour, Majid

“…This study explores the effects of hearing status and bite blocks on vowel production. Normal-hearing controls and postlingually deaf adults read elicitation…”
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Articulatory tradeoffs reduce acoustic variability during American English /r/ production by Guenther, F H, Espy-Wilson, C Y, Boyce, S E, Matthies, M L, Zandipour, M, Perkell, J S

“…The American English phoneme /r/ has long been associated with large amounts of articulatory variability during production. This paper investigates the…”
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A theory of speech motor control and supporting data from speakers with normal hearing and with profound hearing loss by Perkell, Joseph S., Guenther, Frank H., Lane, Harlan, Matthies, Melanie L., Perrier, Pascal, Vick, Jennell, Wilhelms-Tricarico, Reiner, Zandipour, Majid

“…A theory of the segmental component of speech motor control is presented, followed by supporting data. According to the theory, speech movements are programmed…”
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Covariation of Cochlear Implant Users' Perception and Production of Vowel Contrasts and Their Identification by Listeners with Normal Hearing by Vick, Jennell C, Lane, Harlan, Perkell, Joseph S, Matthies, Melanie L, Gould, John, Zandipour, Majid

“…Analysis of data from eight adult cochlear implant users found that improvements in their production and perception of a given vowel contrast and normally…”
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Trading relations between tongue-body raising and lip rounding in production of the vowel/u/ : a pilot motor equivalence study by PERKELL, J. S, MATTHIES, M. L, SVIRSKY, M. A, JORDAN, M. I

“…Articulatory and acoustic data were used to explore the following hypothesis for the vowel /u/: The objective of articulatory movements is an acoustic goal;…”
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Acoustic and Articulatory Measures of Sibilant Production with and without Auditory Feedback from a Cochlear Implant by Matthies, Melanie L

“…The articulator positions of a man with deafness who had a cochlear implant were measured with an electromagnetic midsagittal articulometer system with and…”
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Changes in Speech Intelligibility of Postlingually Deaf Adults after Cochlear Implantation by Gould, John, Lane, Harlan, Vick, Jennell, Perkell, Joseph S, Matthies, Melanie L, Zandipour, Majid

“…OBJECTIVEThis study examines changes in the intelligibility of CVC words spoken by postlingually deafened adults after they have had 6 to 12 mo of experience…”
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Genetic implications of gender differences in the prevalence of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions by Bilger, R C, Matthies, M L, Hammel, D R, Demorest, M E

“…Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs), which occur in about 40% of normal-hearing humans, do not have a firm explanation in auditory theory nor are their…”
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