Brad Rakerd
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brad Rakerd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brad |
| FAMILY NAME | Rakerd |
| SIGNATURE | RAKERD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Communication Disorders Technology (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9604-5451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Making Oral Histories More Accessible to Persons with Hearing Loss
This essay recommends a series of steps that can be taken to make oral histories more accessible to persons who have hearing loss. Recommendations are offered for those who record oral history interviews and also for those who disseminate them. These recommendations are intended to mitigate some of the limitations on speech understanding that are experienced daily by the millions of people in the United States who have a hearing loss.
More on Michigan Listeners' Perceptions of /ɑ/-Fronting
The Northern Cities Vowel Shift (NCVS) is well advanced in southeastern Lower Michigan and largely absent in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In a previous study, Plichta and Rakerd found evidence that listeners from Lower Michigan make a perceptual adjustment for NCVS /ɑ/-fronting when given acoustical information about a talker's dialect (a sentence-long speech sample), but listeners from the Upper Peninsula do not. The present study further examine…
Evidence of Talker-Independent Information for Vowels
The vowel information present in initial and final regions of /b/—vowel—/b/ syllables was examined in this study. Vowels were identified for unedited syllables spoken by a man and a woman, for the initial 20% of those syllables, for the final 20% of the syllables, for the initial and final 20% of the syllables combined and separated by a 60% silent gap, and for the initial and final 20% of the syllables interchanged across talkers and separated b…
An Effect of Sentence Finality on the Phonetic Significance of Silence
The presence or absence of silence was found to be a relevant cue for the distinction between affricate /t∫/ and fricative /∫/ when it occurred in sentence-medial position, but not when it occurred at a sentence boundary. This was so in all cases in which target words and their precursors were both produced by the same talker and in some cases in which they were produced by different talkers. The effect was not dependent on specific durations of …
More on Michigan Listeners' Perceptions of /ɑ/-Fronting
The Northern Cities Vowel Shift (NCVS) is well advanced in southeastern Lower Michigan and largely absent in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In a previous study, Plichta and Rakerd found evidence that listeners from Lower Michigan make a perceptual adjustment for NCVS /ɑ/-fronting when given acoustical information about a talker's dialect (a sentence-long speech sample), but listeners from the Upper Peninsula do not. The present study further examine…
Evidence of Talker-Independent Information for Vowels
The vowel information present in initial and final regions of /b/—vowel—/b/ syllables was examined in this study. Vowels were identified for unedited syllables spoken by a man and a woman, for the initial 20% of those syllables, for the final 20% of the syllables, for the initial and final 20% of the syllables combined and separated by a 60% silent gap, and for the initial and final 20% of the syllables interchanged across talkers and separated b…
An Effect of Sentence Finality on the Phonetic Significance of Silence
The presence or absence of silence was found to be a relevant cue for the distinction between affricate /t∫/ and fricative /∫/ when it occurred in sentence-medial position, but not when it occurred at a sentence boundary. This was so in all cases in which target words and their precursors were both produced by the same talker and in some cases in which they were produced by different talkers. The effect was not dependent on specific durations of …
An Effect of Sentence Finality on the Phonetic Significance of Silence
The presence or absence of silence was found to be a relevant cue for the distinction between affricate /t∫/ and fricative /∫/ when it occurred in sentence-medial position, but not when it occurred at a sentence boundary. This was so in all cases in which target words and their precursors were both produced by the same talker and in some cases in which they were produced by different talkers. The effect was not dependent on specific durations of …
Evidence of Talker-Independent Information for Vowels
The vowel information present in initial and final regions of /b/—vowel—/b/ syllables was examined in this study. Vowels were identified for unedited syllables spoken by a man and a woman, for the initial 20% of those syllables, for the final 20% of the syllables, for the initial and final 20% of the syllables combined and separated by a 60% silent gap, and for the initial and final 20% of the syllables interchanged across talkers and separated b…
More on Michigan Listeners' Perceptions of /ɑ/-Fronting
The Northern Cities Vowel Shift (NCVS) is well advanced in southeastern Lower Michigan and largely absent in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In a previous study, Plichta and Rakerd found evidence that listeners from Lower Michigan make a perceptual adjustment for NCVS /ɑ/-fronting when given acoustical information about a talker's dialect (a sentence-long speech sample), but listeners from the Upper Peninsula do not. The present study further examine…
On Making Oral Histories More Accessible to Persons with Hearing Loss
This essay recommends a series of steps that can be taken to make oral histories more accessible to persons who have hearing loss. Recommendations are offered for those who record oral history interviews and also for those who disseminate them. These recommendations are intended to mitigate some of the limitations on speech understanding that are experienced daily by the millions of people in the United States who have a hearing loss.
Psychology (4 works) · Audiology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Formant (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works)