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Sounds Sweet: Sound Reduplication in Brand Names Enhances Sweet Taste Expectations

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The association between brand name sounds and taste perception is an emerging area of interest in marketing research. This study aims to demonstrate the role of sound‐evoked cuteness in the expectation of sweet taste. Across seven studies (including two supplementary studies), our findings revealed that sound reduplication in brand names is ...
Kosuke Motoki, Sayo Iseki, Abhishek Pathak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speech sound discrimination in background noise across the lifespan: a comparative study in Mongolian gerbils and humans

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Many elderly listeners have difficulties with speech-in-noise perception, even if auditory thresholds in quiet are normal. The mechanisms underlying this compromised speech perception with age are still not understood.
Carolin Jüchter, Carolin Jüchter, Chieh-Ju Chi, Rainer Beutelmann, Rainer Beutelmann, Georg Martin Klump, Georg Martin Klump   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Initial glottalization and final devoicing in polish English [PDF]

, 2012
This paper presents an acoustic study of the speech of Polish leaners of English. The experiment was concerned with English sequences of the type George often, in which a word-final voiced obstruent was followed by a word-initial vowel.
Schwartz, Geoffrey
core   +1 more source

Voice and Speech in Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Background Motor speech disorders are early, common, and functionally limiting features of atypical parkinsonian disorders (APDs) such as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal syndrome (CBS), and multiple system atrophy (MSA). These impairments are underrecognized and undertreated in neurology clinics.
Federico Rodriguez‐Porcel, Farwa Ali, Michiko Bruno, Heather Davis Cuevas, Rohit Dhall, Kylie Dunne‐Platero, Lawrence I. Golbe, Ihtsham Haq, Nicole Herndon, Lawrence S. Honig, Kyurim Kang, Sarah Kremen, Guillaume Lamotte, Nikolaus R. McFarland, Michela Mir, Leila Montaser‐Kouhsari, Alexander Pantelyat, Joel Page, Hylan Pickett, Laura Purcell Verdun, Kelly Richardson, Jessica Shurer, Michelle Troche, Rene L. Utianski, Katya Villarreal‐Cavazos, Tuhin Virmani, Anne‐Marie Wills, as the Diagnosis and Treatment Working Group, CurePSP Center of Care (CoC) Network, Farwa Ali, Michiko Bruno, Timothy Chang, Rohit Dhall, Kimiko Domoto‐Reilly, Lawrence I. Golbe, Ihtsham Haq, Lawrence S. Honig, Sarah Kremen, Guillaume Lamotte, Zoltan Mari, Nikolaus R. McFarland, Leila Montaser‐Kouhsari, Alexander Pantelyat, Federico Rodriguez‐Porcel, Junaid Siddiqui, Jessica Shurer, Christopher Spears, Tuhin Virmani, Anne‐Marie Wills   +48 more
wiley   +1 more source

Syllable Segmentation with Vowel Detection on Verse Quranic Recitation

JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization
In speech recognition, segmentation involves partitioning a continuous audio signal containing speech into smaller units or segments, such as words, phonemes, or syllables.
Timor Setiyaningsih, Mohd Sanusi Azmi, Azah Kamilah Draman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phonemes in continuous speech are better recognized in context than in isolation

Frontiers in Communication, 2022
The contribution of context to phoneme perception is a subject of extensive study. In recent years, while the perception of phonemes in and out of context has become characterized as well-understood, new studies have emerged to challenge prevailing ...
Annemarie C. Brown, Eva Childers, Elijah F. W. Bowen, Gabriel A. Zuckerberg, Richard Granger   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning Phonemic Vowel Length from Naturalistic Recordings of Japanese Infant-Directed Speech

PLoS ONE, 2013
In Japanese, vowel duration can distinguish the meaning of words. In order for infants to learn this phonemic contrast using simple distributional analyses, there should be reliable differences in the duration of short and long vowels, and the frequency ...
R. A. Bion, Kouki Miyazawa, H. Kikuchi, R. Mazuka   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Airflow in stop-vowel sequences of German [PDF]

, 2009
This study reports on the results of an airflow experiment that measured the duration of airflow and the amount of air from release of a stop to the beginning of a following vowel in stop vowel-sequences of ...
Hamann, Silke, Velkov, Hristo
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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Fundamental study on the sounds of standard Baltic languages: phonetic and phonological differences

Lietuvių Kalba, 2020
The article discusses the most important differences in the sound structure of contemporary Lithuanian and Latvian standard languages, scientific and practical benefits of a fundamental comparative instrumental sound research, reviews possible further ...
Jurgita Jaroslavienė, Jolita Urbanavičienė   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source