Publications by authors named "Rachel H Smith"
Generalization of Perceptual Learning of Degraded Speech Across Talkers.
J Speech Lang Hear Res
November 2017
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to determine if learning to understand noise-vocoded (NV) speech is affected by the speaker's accent or individual voice.
- - Participants were trained with NV sentences from a specific talker and then tested with sentences from either the same or a different talker, showing no significant difference in understanding.
- - The findings indicate that learning to comprehend NV speech is adaptable across different speakers, suggesting that individuals with cochlear implants could effectively learn to understand speech by focusing on just one person's voice.
Research into linguistic rhythm has been dominated by the idea that languages can be classified according to rhythmic templates, amenable to assessment by acoustic measures of vowel and consonant durations. This study tested predictions of two proposals explaining the bases of rhythmic typologies: the Rhythm Class Hypothesis which assumes that the templates arise from an extensive vs a limited use of durational contrasts, and the Control and Compensation Hypothesis which proposes that the templates are rooted in more vs less flexible speech production strategies. Temporal properties of segments, syllables and rhythmic feet were examined in two accents of British English, a "stress-timed" variety from Leeds, and a "syllable-timed" variety spoken by Panjabi-English bilinguals from Bradford.
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