Search results for "Phonemes"
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Electrophysiological and hemodynamic mismatch responses in rats listening to human speech syllables
2016
International audience; Speech is a complex auditory stimulus which is processed according to several time-scales. Whereas consonant discrimination is required to resolve rapid acoustic events, voice perception relies on slower cues. Humans, right from preterm ages, are particularly efficient to encode temporal cues. To compare the capacities of preterms to those observed in other mammals, we tested anesthetized adult rats by using exactly the same paradigm as that used in preterm neonates. We simultaneously recorded neural (using ECoG) and hemodynamic responses (using fNIRS) to series of human speech syllables and investigated the brain response to a change of consonant (ba vs. ga) and to …
The Role of Pronunciation and The Presentation of Problematic Phonemes in Ten Finnish EFL Textbooks
2010
Tutkielmassa käsiteltiin englannin kielen ääntämisen roolia ja ongelmallisten foneemien esiintymistä kymmenessä suomalaisessa englanti vieraana kielenä -oppikirjassa. Suomalaisilla englannin kielen oppijoilla on todettu olevan ongelmia erityisesti eräiden foneemien ääntämisessä, ja ongelmia on nostettu esiin myös mediassa. Tutkielman taustoitukseksi tutustuttiin tutkimuksiin ääntämisen opettamisen roolista kouluissa, englannin kielen ääntämiseen yleisellä tasolla sekä suomalaisille ongelmallisiin piirteisiin, jotka sisältyvät myös itse tutkielman tuloksista raportoimiseen. Aiemmissa tutkimuksissa oli todettu ääntämisen opettamisen perustuvan juuri oppikirjojen materiaalille, joiden laatua …
Costs and Benefits of Orthographic Inconsistency in Reading: Evidence from a Cross-Linguistic Comparison.
2016
We compared reading acquisition in English and Italian children up to late primary school analyzing RTs and errors as a function of various psycholinguistic variables and changes due to experience. Our results show that reading becomes progressively more reliant on larger processing units with age, but that this is modulated by consistency of the language. In English, an inconsistent orthography, reliance on larger units occurs earlier on and it is demonstrated by faster RTs, a stronger effect of lexical variables and lack of length effect (by fifth grade). However, not all English children are able to master this mode of processing yielding larger inter-individual variability. In Italian, …