Joanne L Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3822066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne L Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne L |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dialect Effects in Speech Perception
The current experiments examined how native Parisian French and native Swiss French listeners use vowel duration in perceiving the /ɔ/-/o/ contrast. In both Parisian and Swiss French /o/ is longer than /ɔ/, but the difference is relatively large in Swiss French and quite small in Parisian French. In Experiment 1 we found a parallel effect in perception. For native listeners of both dialects, the perceived best exemplars of /o/ were longer than th…
Perceiving Non-Native Speech
In a series of experiments using monosyllabic words produced by a native and a non-native speaker of English, native English speakers monitored the wordinitial consonants of the words to decide which of two consonants was present on each trial. In some of the experiments, a secondary task of a linguistic nature, deciding whether the target-bearing word was a noun or verb, was also required. When the words were presented in silence, the native and…
Speech, Language, and Communication
L. Frazier, Issues of Representation in Psycholinguistics. C.A. Fowler, Speech Production. L.C. Nygaard and D.B. Pisoni, Speech Perception: New Directions in Research and Theory. A. Cutler, Spoken Word Recognition and Production. M.S. Seidenberg, Visual Word Recognition: An Overview. K. Bock, Sentence Production: From Mind to Mouth. M.K. Tanenhaus and J.C. Trueswell, Sentence Comprehension. P.W. Jusczyk, Language Acquisition: Speech Sounds and th…
Dialect Effects in Vowel Perception
The importance of vowel duration for specifying vowel contrasts differs across languages. In English, for example, a number of vowel pairs are acoustically differentiated by both temporal and spectral information, whereas in standard French temporal information plays a much more minor role. Gottfried and Beddor (1988) reported that the effectiveness of vowel duration in perception varies accordingly: For native speakers of English, but not native…
Going in and out of Languages
When bilinguals speak to one another, they choose a base language to interact in and then, depending on the need, code-switch to the other (guest) language for a word, a phrase, or a sentence During the perception of a code switch, there is a momentary dominance of base-language units at the onset of the switch, but it is unknown whether this base-language effect is also present in production, that is, whether the phonetics of the base language c…
A Constraint on the Discrimination of Speech by Young Infants
Three- and four-month-old infants were tested on their ability to discriminate the third-formant transitions sufficient to signal the syllable-medial stops [t] and [k]. The stimulus patterns consisted of an initial fricative [s], 20 or 100 msec of silence, and the vowel [a], whose initial formant transitions were appropriate for [t] or [k]. Discrimination only occurred when the duration of silence was 100 msec. This constraint on discrimination i…
Base-Language Effects on Word Identification in Bilingual Speech
The categorical perception paradigm was used to investigate whether French-English bilinguals categorize a code-switched word as French or English on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic information alone or whether they are influenced by the base-language context in which the word occurs, that is, by the language in which the majority of words are spoken. Subjects identified stimuli from computer-edited series that ranged from an English to a Fren…
Limits on Later-Occurring Rate Information for Phonetic Perception
It has been shown that when listeners identify monosyllabic target words as beginning with /b/ versus /w/ on the basis of the duration of the initial formant transitions, they do so in relation to the rate of the word. Specifically, as speaking rate decreases such that the word becomes longer, the transition duration required to perceive /w/ as opposed to /b/ also becomes longer. We investigated whether the rate of speech subsequent to the target…
Studies on the selective tuning of feature detectors for speech
Dialect Effects in Vowel Perception
The importance of vowel duration for specifying vowel contrasts differs across languages. In English, for example, a number of vowel pairs are acoustically differentiated by both temporal and spectral information, whereas in standard French temporal information plays a much more minor role. Gottfried and Beddor (1988) reported that the effectiveness of vowel duration in perception varies accordingly: For native speakers of English, but not native…
Dialect Effects in Speech Perception
The current experiments examined how native Parisian French and native Swiss French listeners use vowel duration in perceiving the /ɔ/-/o/ contrast. In both Parisian and Swiss French /o/ is longer than /ɔ/, but the difference is relatively large in Swiss French and quite small in Parisian French. In Experiment 1 we found a parallel effect in perception. For native listeners of both dialects, the perceived best exemplars of /o/ were longer than th…
A Constraint on the Discrimination of Speech by Young Infants
Three- and four-month-old infants were tested on their ability to discriminate the third-formant transitions sufficient to signal the syllable-medial stops [t] and [k]. The stimulus patterns consisted of an initial fricative [s], 20 or 100 msec of silence, and the vowel [a], whose initial formant transitions were appropriate for [t] or [k]. Discrimination only occurred when the duration of silence was 100 msec. This constraint on discrimination i…
Base-Language Effects on Word Identification in Bilingual Speech
The categorical perception paradigm was used to investigate whether French-English bilinguals categorize a code-switched word as French or English on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic information alone or whether they are influenced by the base-language context in which the word occurs, that is, by the language in which the majority of words are spoken. Subjects identified stimuli from computer-edited series that ranged from an English to a Fren…
Studies on the selective tuning of feature detectors for speech
Limits on Later-Occurring Rate Information for Phonetic Perception
It has been shown that when listeners identify monosyllabic target words as beginning with /b/ versus /w/ on the basis of the duration of the initial formant transitions, they do so in relation to the rate of the word. Specifically, as speaking rate decreases such that the word becomes longer, the transition duration required to perceive /w/ as opposed to /b/ also becomes longer. We investigated whether the rate of speech subsequent to the target…
Base-Language Effects on Word Identification in Bilingual Speech
The categorical perception paradigm was used to investigate whether French-English bilinguals categorize a code-switched word as French or English on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic information alone or whether they are influenced by the base-language context in which the word occurs, that is, by the language in which the majority of words are spoken. Subjects identified stimuli from computer-edited series that ranged from an English to a Fren…
A Constraint on the Discrimination of Speech by Young Infants
Three- and four-month-old infants were tested on their ability to discriminate the third-formant transitions sufficient to signal the syllable-medial stops [t] and [k]. The stimulus patterns consisted of an initial fricative [s], 20 or 100 msec of silence, and the vowel [a], whose initial formant transitions were appropriate for [t] or [k]. Discrimination only occurred when the duration of silence was 100 msec. This constraint on discrimination i…
Going in and out of Languages
When bilinguals speak to one another, they choose a base language to interact in and then, depending on the need, code-switch to the other (guest) language for a word, a phrase, or a sentence During the perception of a code switch, there is a momentary dominance of base-language units at the onset of the switch, but it is unknown whether this base-language effect is also present in production, that is, whether the phonetics of the base language c…
Speech, Language, and Communication
L. Frazier, Issues of Representation in Psycholinguistics. C.A. Fowler, Speech Production. L.C. Nygaard and D.B. Pisoni, Speech Perception: New Directions in Research and Theory. A. Cutler, Spoken Word Recognition and Production. M.S. Seidenberg, Visual Word Recognition: An Overview. K. Bock, Sentence Production: From Mind to Mouth. M.K. Tanenhaus and J.C. Trueswell, Sentence Comprehension. P.W. Jusczyk, Language Acquisition: Speech Sounds and th…
Dialect Effects in Vowel Perception
The importance of vowel duration for specifying vowel contrasts differs across languages. In English, for example, a number of vowel pairs are acoustically differentiated by both temporal and spectral information, whereas in standard French temporal information plays a much more minor role. Gottfried and Beddor (1988) reported that the effectiveness of vowel duration in perception varies accordingly: For native speakers of English, but not native…
Perceiving Non-Native Speech
In a series of experiments using monosyllabic words produced by a native and a non-native speaker of English, native English speakers monitored the wordinitial consonants of the words to decide which of two consonants was present on each trial. In some of the experiments, a secondary task of a linguistic nature, deciding whether the target-bearing word was a noun or verb, was also required. When the words were presented in silence, the native and…
Dialect Effects in Speech Perception
The current experiments examined how native Parisian French and native Swiss French listeners use vowel duration in perceiving the /ɔ/-/o/ contrast. In both Parisian and Swiss French /o/ is longer than /ɔ/, but the difference is relatively large in Swiss French and quite small in Parisian French. In Experiment 1 we found a parallel effect in perception. For native listeners of both dialects, the perceived best exemplars of /o/ were longer than th…
Computer Science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Acoustics (5 works) · Formant (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Speech recognition (5 works) · Vowel (5 works)