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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"vowel perception"”.
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Social and learner-specific factors in the acquisition of nativelike phonetic contrasts by study abroad students in Paris, France
… documented counter-clockwise rotation of nasal vowels in Northern Metropolitan French. Participants in this study were twelve students from an American university who participated in a study abroad program in Paris for one semester. The study employs a battery of qualitative and quantitative …
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On the spectral information content of vowels
This thesis explores the human perception of vowels in a consonant-vowel (CV) context by examining the data of two experiments. The first experi- ment, CV06-SWN, examines the effects of speech-weighted noise (SWN) on vowel perception. The vowels examined are /A/, /o/, /u/, /U/, /E/, /æ/, /3~/, and …
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Children's Perception of Conversational and Clear American-English Vowels in Noise
A handful of studies have examined children's perception of clear speech in the presence of background noise. Although accurate vowel perception is important for listeners' comprehension, no study has focused on whether vowels uttered in clear speech aid intelligibility for children listeners. In …
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Effects of NAL-R amplification on consonant speech perception in hearing-impaired listeners
This thesis investigates speech perception in hearing impaired (HI ) subjects. Psychoacoustic experiments in different conditions were undertaken. In particular, two consonant vowel (CV ) identification experiments in masking noise were conducted at various signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) with 16 HI …
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Sound perception and production in a foreign language
… study addresses the question of how German vowels are perceived and produced by Polish learners of German as a Foreign Language. It comprises three main experiments: a discrimination experiment, a production experiment, and an identification experiment. With the exception of the …
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Perception of prosody by cochlear implant recipients
… which speech features support successful perception in noise in NH listeners could provide insight into the difficulty that CI listeners experience in background noise. One set of speech features that has not been thoroughly investigated with regard to its noise immunity is prosody. …