Rise time and formant transition duration in the discrimination of speech sounds: the Ba-Wa distinction in developmental dyslexia

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Usha Goswami ◽  
Tim Fosker ◽  
Martina Huss ◽  
Natasha Mead ◽  
Dénes Szűcs
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Dyslexia ◽  
Rise Time ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Transition Duration ◽  
Formant Transition

scholarly journals Tempo of Spectrum Change as a Cue in Speech-Sound Discrimination by Infants

1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hillenbrand ◽  
Fred D. Minifie ◽  
Thomas J. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Speech Sound ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Head Turn ◽  
Transition Duration ◽  
Formant Transition ◽  
Background Stimulus ◽  
Discrimination Procedure ◽  
Spectrum Change ◽  
Modification Technique ◽  
Sound Discrimination

Six- to seven-month-old infants were tested on their ability to discriminate among three speech sounds which differed on the basis of formant-transition duration, a major cue to distinctions among stop, semivowel and diphthong classes. The three speech sounds, [bε], [wε], and [uε] were produced in two different ways. The stimuli for one experiment were two-formant synthetic tokens which differed in formant-transition duration. The stimuli for a second experiment were produced with a computer-modification technique which artificially shortened or lengthened the formant-transition portion of a naturally produced [wɛ], resulting in tokens of [bɛ] and [uɛ]. The discrimination procedure involved visual reinforcement of a head-turn response following a change from a repeating background stimulus to a contrasting stimulus. Infants in both experiments discriminated [bɛ] from both [wɛ] and [uɛ]; evidence for [wε]-[uɛ] discrimination was obtained for the “computer modified” tokens only. These findings are discussed in terms of possible mechanisms underlying speech perception in infancy.

Music, rhythm, rise time perception and developmental dyslexia: Perception of musical meter predicts reading and phonology

Cortex ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 674-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Huss ◽  
John P. Verney ◽  
Tim Fosker ◽  
Natasha Mead ◽  
Usha Goswami
Keyword(s):  
Time Perception ◽  
Developmental Dyslexia ◽  
Rise Time

Hearing loss severity: Impaired processing of formant transition duration

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 3057-3061 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Coez ◽  
P. Belin ◽  
E. Bizaguet ◽  
E. Ferrary ◽  
M. Zilbovicius ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Transition Duration ◽  
Formant Transition ◽  
Loss Severity
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