Sentence examples for variable speech from inspiring English sources

Second-language (L2) learners can benefit from exposure to phonetically variable speech during computer-based training.

How do listeners perceive highly variable speech signals?

As in Chandrasekaran et al., we observed subcortical enhancement of a predictable, contrasted with a variable, speech presentation [ 5].

Neural sensitivity to acoustic regularities was assessed by recording brainstem responses to the same speech sound presented in predictable and variable speech streams.

However, studies have shown that infants understand highly variable speech (e.g., Kuhl et al., 2008) as well as foreign-accented input from around 14 months (e.g., Schmale & Seidl, 2009).

Averaging over the brain correlates of variable speech stimuli, for example, will blur and possibly remove early focal and short-lived brain activity, therefore making it impossible to study precise early activation time courses (Pulvermüller and Shtyrov 2006).

They were then analysed with regard to four SFL variables: speech functions, mood, modality and terms of address to establish the nature of the interpersonal written features developing within Vietnam.

Similar to i-vector, an i-supervector represents a variable-length speech utterance as a fixed-length vector.

A multiple regression analysis with change score as the dependent variable and condition (speech alone or speech plus gesture), gender, age, ethnicity, and primary language as independent variables showed a significant effect only for condition, β = 0.28, t 82) = 2.61, p = 0.01.

Further TMS studies using variable tasks and speech stimuli (degraded and nondegraded) are needed to clarify in which conditions the articulatory motor system contributes to speech perception.

Each speech variable is associated with two bars, the light grey bar representing performance at the mild cognitive impairment stage, and the dark grey bar performance at the mild Alzheimer's disease stage.