Search Results - "Whalen, D.H."

Voice Onset Time (VOT) at 50: Theoretical and practical issues in measuring voicing distinctions by Abramson, Arthur S., Whalen, D.H.

“…•We review the 50year history of the concept of Voice Onset Time (VOT).•This widely-used acoustic measure of consonantal voicing distinctions retains its…”
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Voice onset time and beyond: Exploring laryngeal contrast in 19 languages by Cho, Taehong, Whalen, D.H., Docherty, Gerard

“…•This collection marks 50 years of research on VOT and the voicing contrast in the world’s languages.•Nineteen languages are studied in 11 papers based on data…”
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Responses of adults who stutter to the anticipation of stuttering by Jackson, Eric S., Yaruss, J. Scott, Quesal, Robert W., Terranova, Valerie, Whalen, D.H.

“…•Conducted qualitative analysis of experience of anticipation of stuttering.•Focused on action responses to anticipation of stuttering.•Speech production of…”
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Taking the Laboratory into the Field by Whalen, D.H, McDonough, Joyce

“…We review the development of methodologies and technologies of empirical linguistic work done outside traditional academic laboratories. The integration of…”
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Phonetic processing areas revealed by sinewave speech and acoustically similar non-speech by Benson, Randall R., Richardson, Matthew, Whalen, D.H., Lai, Song

“…The neural substrates underlying speech perception are still not well understood. Previously, we found dissociation of speech and nonspeech processing at the…”
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Parametrically Dissociating Speech and Nonspeech Perception in the Brain Using fMRI by Benson, Randall R., Whalen, D.H., Richardson, Matthew, Swainson, Brook, Clark, Vincent P., Lai, Song, Liberman, Alvin M.

“…Candidate brain regions constituting a neural network for preattentive phonetic perception were identified with fMRI and multivariate multiple regression of…”
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Talker variability versus variability of vowel context in training naïve learners on an unfamiliar class of foreign language contrasts by Shejaeya, Ghada A., Roon, Kevin D., Whalen, D.H.

“…•Online training was effective in training participants to identify Arabic emphatics.•The relative efficacy of talker and vowel-context variability was…”
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Obituary: Arthur S. Abramson by Whalen, D.H.

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Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude contour and in brief segments by Whalen, D H, Xu, Y

“…While the tones of Mandarin are conveyed mainly by the F0 contour, they also differ consistently in duration and in amplitude contour. The contribution of…”
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Extending Ultrasound Tongue Shape Complexity Measures to Speech Development and Disorders by Kabakoff, Heather, Harel, Daphna, Tiede, Mark, Whalen, D. H, McAllister, Tara

“…Purpose: Generalizations can be made about the order in which speech sounds are added to a child's phonemic inventory and the ways that child speech deviates…”
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A dual mechanism for intrinsic f0 by Chen, Wei-Rong, Whalen, D.H., Tiede, Mark K.

“…•The articulatory mechanism for intrinsic f0 (IF0) is still unclear.•Articulatory data of 44 American English speakers was examined for correlates of IF0.•The…”
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Can Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders "Hear" a Speaking Face? by Irwin, Julia R., Tornatore, Lauren A., Brancazio, Lawrence, Whalen, D. H.

“…This study used eye-tracking methodology to assess audiovisual speech perception in 26 children ranging in age from 5 to 15 years, half with autism spectrum…”
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Assessing ultrasound probe stabilization for quantifying speech production contrasts using the Adjustable Laboratory Probe Holder for UltraSound (ALPHUS) by Chen, Wei-Rong, Stern, Michael C., Whalen, D.H., Derrick, Donald, Carignan, Christopher, Best, Catherine T., Tiede, Mark

“…•Optimal ultrasound stabilization using a 3D-printable headset (ALPHUS).•ALHPUS permits free jaw articulation while constraining uncorrectable probe…”
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The Impact of Social-Cognitive Stress on Speech Variability, Determinism, and Stability in Adults Who Do and Do Not Stutter by Jackson, Eric S, Tiede, Mark, Beal, Deryk, Whalen, D. H

“…Purpose: This study examined the impact of social-cognitive stress on sentence-level speech variability, determinism, and stability in adults who stutter (AWS)…”
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Vowel Production and Perception: Hyperarticulation without a Hyperspace Effect by Whalen, D.H., Magen, Harriet S., Pouplier, Marianne, Min Kang, A., Iskarous, Khalil

“…The ability of speakers to exaggerate speech sounds (“hyperarticulation”) has led to the theory that the targets themselves must be hyperarticulated. Johnson,…”
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Characterizing sensorimotor profiles in children with residual speech sound disorder: a pilot study by Kabakoff, Heather, Gritsyk, Olesia, Harel, Daphna, Tiede, Mark, Preston, Jonathan L., Whalen, D.H., McAllister, Tara

“…•Children with speech disorders can have reduced somatosensory acuity and motor skill.•Ultrasound-based measurement of tongue shape complexity may represent…”
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Cricothyroid activity in high and low vowels: exploring the automaticity of intrinsic F0 by Whalen, D.H, Gick, Bryan, Kumada, Masanobu, Honda, Kiyoshi

“…Although vowels can be produced with any F0 in a speaker's range, the high vowels tend to be produced with a higher F0 than low vowels. This “intrinsic F0”…”
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The effect of gap duration on the perception of fluent versus disfluent speech by Warner, Haley J., Whalen, D.H., Harel, Daphna, Jackson, Eric S.

“…•We report a threshold for disfluency perception based on a set of stimuli with typical speech rates and equal frequency.•Adults who stutter have a lower…”
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Variability of articulator positions and formants across nine English vowels by Whalen, D.H., Chen, Wei-Rong, Tiede, Mark K., Nam, Hosung

“…•Variability in two domains, articulatory and acoustic, was compared for 9 English vowels produced by 32 speakers in the X-ray microbeam database (XRMB;…”
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Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Sentence-Level Speech Kinematics by Jackson, Eric S, Tiede, Mark, Riley, Michael A, Whalen, D H

“…Current approaches to assessing sentence-level speech variability rely on measures that quantify variability across utterances and use normalization procedures…”
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