Jana L Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 162680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jana L Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jana L |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8969-9185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 190 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Stalking the Wild Formant
Decode, Move and Speak! Self-supervised Learning of Speech Units, Gestures, and Sound Relationships Using Vocal Imitation
Speech learning encompasses mastering a complex motor system to produce speech sounds from articulatory gestures while simultaneously uncovering discrete units that provide entry to the linguistic system. Remarkably, children acquire these associations between speech sounds, articulatory gestures, and linguistic units in a weakly supervised manner, without the need for explicit labeling of auditory inputs or access to target articulatory gestures…
Chimpanzees Have no Expanded Formant Space and No Correlated F1 and F2
Orofacial somatosensory inputs modulate word segmentation in lexical decision
Cued Speech Enhances Speech-in-Noise Perception
Speech perception in noise remains challenging for Deaf/Hard of Hearing people (D/HH), even fitted with hearing aids or cochlear implants. The perception of sentences in noise by 20 implanted or aided D/HH subjects mastering Cued Speech (CS), a system of hand gestures complementing lip movements, was compared with the perception of 15 typically hearing (TH) controls in three conditions: audio only, audiovisual, and audiovisual + CS. Similar audio…
Audiovisual Binding for Speech Perception in Noise and in Aging
Speech perception involves fusion of multiple sensory inputs, but fusion is not automatic, likely depending on several external and internal factors (e.g., attention, noise, age). In this study, we exploited a specific paradigm in which a short audiovisual context made of coherent or incoherent speech material is displayed before an incongruent audiovisual target likely to provide fusion (McGurk & MacDonald, 1976). We confirmed that incoherent co…
On the cognitive nature of speech sound systems
"Cosmo ("Communicating about Objects using Sensory-Motor Operations)
While the origin of language remains a somewhat mysterious process, understanding how human language takes specific forms appears to be accessible by the experimental method. Languages, despite their wide variety, display obvious regularities. In this paper, we attempt to derive some properties of phonological systems (the sound systems for human languages) from speech communication principles. We introduce a model of the cognitive architecture o…
Keep the lips to free the larynx
Grounding stop place systems in the perceptuo-motor substance of speech
Undocumented Research Participants
President Obama characterized Arizona’s recent immigration law as undermining “basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans.” The authors’ extend the national discussion regarding immigration to ethics and research. Therefore, the purpose of this methodological article is to advance areas for ethical consideration when researching undocumented participants. Undocumented participants have been described as vulnerable and in need of prote…
Culturally Responsive Focus Groups
Focus groups are a frequently employed and valued method of data collection in the Social Sciences. This article specifically addresses maximizing the benefits of focus groups through the framework of culturally responsive research practice. Discussion of authors' research projects which utilized focus groups are presented in order to illuminate the advantages of using culturally responsive focus groups (CRFGs) in data collection. Three types of …
Infants' vocalizations analyzed with an articulatory model
Articulatory-acoustic relationships during vocal tract growth for French vowels
Weight of Phonetic Substance in the Structure of Sound Inventories
In the research field initiated by Lindblom & Liljencrants in 1972, we illustrate the possibility of giving substance to phonology, predicting the structure of phonological systems with nonphonological principles, be they listener-oriented (perceptual contrast and stability) or speaker-oriented (articulatory contrast and economy). We proposed for vowel systems the Dispersion-Focalisation Theory (Schwartz et al., 1997b). With the DFT, we can predi…
The Dispersion-Focalization Theory of vowel systems
Major trends in vowel system inventories
Recovery of vocal tract geometry fromformants for vowels and fricative consonants using a midsagittal-to-area function conversion model
Inter-individual and cross-linguistic strategies for the production of the [i] vs. [y] contrast
Formant trajectories as audible gestures
Plateaus, catastrophes and the structuring of vowel systems
Tarsiers, adapids and the integrity of Strepsirhini
The Dispersion-Focalization Theory of vowel systems
Culturally Responsive Focus Groups
Focus groups are a frequently employed and valued method of data collection in the Social Sciences. This article specifically addresses maximizing the benefits of focus groups through the framework of culturally responsive research practice. Discussion of authors' research projects which utilized focus groups are presented in order to illuminate the advantages of using culturally responsive focus groups (CRFGs) in data collection. Three types of …
Major trends in vowel system inventories
Undocumented Research Participants
President Obama characterized Arizona’s recent immigration law as undermining “basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans.” The authors’ extend the national discussion regarding immigration to ethics and research. Therefore, the purpose of this methodological article is to advance areas for ethical consideration when researching undocumented participants. Undocumented participants have been described as vulnerable and in need of prote…
"Cosmo ("Communicating about Objects using Sensory-Motor Operations)
While the origin of language remains a somewhat mysterious process, understanding how human language takes specific forms appears to be accessible by the experimental method. Languages, despite their wide variety, display obvious regularities. In this paper, we attempt to derive some properties of phonological systems (the sound systems for human languages) from speech communication principles. We introduce a model of the cognitive architecture o…
Tarsiers, adapids and the integrity of Strepsirhini
Articulatory-acoustic relationships during vocal tract growth for French vowels
Plateaus, catastrophes and the structuring of vowel systems
Grounding stop place systems in the perceptuo-motor substance of speech
Infants' vocalizations analyzed with an articulatory model
Inter-individual and cross-linguistic strategies for the production of the [i] vs. [y] contrast
Formant trajectories as audible gestures
Tarsiers, adapids and the integrity of Strepsirhini
Plateaus, catastrophes and the structuring of vowel systems
Formant trajectories as audible gestures
Inter-individual and cross-linguistic strategies for the production of the [i] vs. [y] contrast
Recovery of vocal tract geometry fromformants for vowels and fricative consonants using a midsagittal-to-area function conversion model
The Dispersion-Focalization Theory of vowel systems
Major trends in vowel system inventories
Weight of Phonetic Substance in the Structure of Sound Inventories
In the research field initiated by Lindblom & Liljencrants in 1972, we illustrate the possibility of giving substance to phonology, predicting the structure of phonological systems with nonphonological principles, be they listener-oriented (perceptual contrast and stability) or speaker-oriented (articulatory contrast and economy). We proposed for vowel systems the Dispersion-Focalisation Theory (Schwartz et al., 1997b). With the DFT, we can predi…
Infants' vocalizations analyzed with an articulatory model
Articulatory-acoustic relationships during vocal tract growth for French vowels
Undocumented Research Participants
President Obama characterized Arizona’s recent immigration law as undermining “basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans.” The authors’ extend the national discussion regarding immigration to ethics and research. Therefore, the purpose of this methodological article is to advance areas for ethical consideration when researching undocumented participants. Undocumented participants have been described as vulnerable and in need of prote…
Culturally Responsive Focus Groups
Focus groups are a frequently employed and valued method of data collection in the Social Sciences. This article specifically addresses maximizing the benefits of focus groups through the framework of culturally responsive research practice. Discussion of authors' research projects which utilized focus groups are presented in order to illuminate the advantages of using culturally responsive focus groups (CRFGs) in data collection. Three types of …
Grounding stop place systems in the perceptuo-motor substance of speech
Keep the lips to free the larynx
On the cognitive nature of speech sound systems
"Cosmo ("Communicating about Objects using Sensory-Motor Operations)
While the origin of language remains a somewhat mysterious process, understanding how human language takes specific forms appears to be accessible by the experimental method. Languages, despite their wide variety, display obvious regularities. In this paper, we attempt to derive some properties of phonological systems (the sound systems for human languages) from speech communication principles. We introduce a model of the cognitive architecture o…
Audiovisual Binding for Speech Perception in Noise and in Aging
Speech perception involves fusion of multiple sensory inputs, but fusion is not automatic, likely depending on several external and internal factors (e.g., attention, noise, age). In this study, we exploited a specific paradigm in which a short audiovisual context made of coherent or incoherent speech material is displayed before an incongruent audiovisual target likely to provide fusion (McGurk & MacDonald, 1976). We confirmed that incoherent co…
Cued Speech Enhances Speech-in-Noise Perception
Speech perception in noise remains challenging for Deaf/Hard of Hearing people (D/HH), even fitted with hearing aids or cochlear implants. The perception of sentences in noise by 20 implanted or aided D/HH subjects mastering Cued Speech (CS), a system of hand gestures complementing lip movements, was compared with the perception of 15 typically hearing (TH) controls in three conditions: audio only, audiovisual, and audiovisual + CS. Similar audio…
Orofacial somatosensory inputs modulate word segmentation in lexical decision
Chimpanzees Have no Expanded Formant Space and No Correlated F1 and F2
Decode, Move and Speak! Self-supervised Learning of Speech Units, Gestures, and Sound Relationships Using Vocal Imitation
Speech learning encompasses mastering a complex motor system to produce speech sounds from articulatory gestures while simultaneously uncovering discrete units that provide entry to the linguistic system. Remarkably, children acquire these associations between speech sounds, articulatory gestures, and linguistic units in a weakly supervised manner, without the need for explicit labeling of auditory inputs or access to target articulatory gestures…
Stalking the Wild Formant
Computer Science (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (14 works) · Speech recognition (14 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Perception (10 works) · Artificial Intelligence (9 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Formant (8 works) · Vowel (8 works)