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Description:: Both the timing (i.e., ‘when’) and amount (i.e., ‘how much’) of language exposure have been shown to affect language-learning outcomes. Monolinguals and (most) bilinguals confound these two factors of early exposure and extended exposure (i.e., their first-acquired language is their most used or dominant language), making it difficult to isolate...
Keyword:: speech, bilingualism, frequency, linguistics, and vocabulary
Subject:: Linguistics
Creator:: Michael Blasingame
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/25/2019
Date Modified:: 02/25/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: An amazing characteristic of the speech signal is that it contains a variety of temporal features that occur simultaneously in the signal, and each of these features provides unique and essential information for speech perception. An equally astonishing fact is that, in most cases, the human auditory system is able...
Keyword:: speech, language impairment, dyslexia, cortex, and temporal processing
Subject:: Communication Sciences and Disorders - Learning Disabilities
Creator:: Daniel Abrams
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/10/2018
Date Modified:: 09/10/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a highly heterogeneous and pervasive developmental disorder that affects nearly 1 in 150 children. A primary indicator of ASD is behavioral language impairment with respect to social communication, but the neurophysiology behind this impairment is not well understood. Both the perception and production of prosody...
Keyword:: speech, neurophysiology, language, autism, and evoked potentials
Subject:: Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
Creator:: Nicole Monique Russo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/10/2018
Date Modified:: 09/10/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: When we speak, we communicate not only with the words we choose, but also with the patterns of sound we create. As auditory experts, musicians are especially adept at making sense of sound, and accumulating research reveals that this extends to their processing of speech and other communication signals. Much...
Keyword:: speech, music, perception, language, and rhythm
Subject:: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Creator:: Jessica Louise Slater
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/13/2018
Date Modified:: 02/13/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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