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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Speech acquisition"”.
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Shinichi Suzuki and Musical Talent: An Analysis of His Claims
… the proper environment is in place. However, speech acquisition and music learning show a number of similarities, supporting Suzuki’s idea of using speech acquisition as a model for music education. Suzuki’s claim that tone-deafness is not an inborn condition, but rather is caused by a …
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Conditioning Expressive Language in a Nonverbal Child
<p>The problem of treating the child with delayed speech acquisition has generated a considerable amount of research and these studies have pointed out the need for further work in this area. The purpose of this study is to test the procedures of one particularly effective study, that of Dr. Burl …
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Articulatory feature encoding and sensorimotor training for tactually supplemented speech reception by the hearing-impaired
… builds on previous efforts to develop tactile speech-reception aids for the hearing-impaired. Whereas conventional hearing aids mainly amplify acoustic signals, tactile speech aids convert acoustic information into a form perceptible via the sense of touch. By facilitating visual speechreading …
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Unsupervised learning of vocal tract sensory-motor synergies
… exist infinitely many ways to perform a task. Speech production is a complex motor control task and suffers from this problem, but it has not drawn the research attention that reaching movements or walking gaits have. Motivated by the use of dimensionality reduction algorithms in learning …
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The voice-bar after closure of coda consonants in the speech of young children
… of this study is to gain some insight into the speech acquisition process and articulator development of young children whose mother-tongue is American English. The presence of voice-bars after the closure of voiceless coda consonants in consonant-final words from early child speech is not …
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Selected modifications of the auditory feedback system and their effects on speech fluency.
… some time that we continually monitor our own speech by listening to ourselves; indeed, the absence of this monitoring system is detrimental to our speech performance. In the congenitally deaf, acquiring the skill of speech is always very difficult and frequently impossible, even with the aid …
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The acquisition of Setswana phonology in children aged 2;0 – 6;5 years
… The study objectives were to: 1) describe the acquisition of four aspects of phonology in these children, namely vowels, consonants, lexical tone and phonological processes; 2) contrast Setswana phonological development in monolingual vs multilingual children; and 3) contrast typical vs …