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Description:: As monolinguals and bilinguals hear words unfold over time, they experience competition from words that share sounds within the same language (e.g., st- activates strict and stamp). Unique to bilinguals is that they are also prone to competition from similar sounding-words between their two languages. In the present dissertation, we...
Keyword:: speech perception, phonotactic constraints, bilingualism, and parallel language activation
Subject:: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Creator:: Max Ryan Freeman
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/19/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Inability to understand speech in the presence of background noise is one of the most common complaints of individuals with hearing impairment. Two hearing aid processing strategies specifically recommended for improved speech perception in noise include: digital noise reduction (DNR) and cognition-based wide dynamic range compression (WDRC) speed. While previous...
Keyword:: hearing aids, acoustics, reverberation, and signal processing
Subject:: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Creator:: Paul Reinhart
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/16/2018
Date Modified:: 01/29/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
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

Description:: In the past few decades, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research has shown that nouns and verbs are processed differently in cognitively healthy individuals, and can be selectively impaired in aphasic individuals. However, this noun-verb dichotomy is poorly understood. This dissertation investigated cognitive and neural distinctions between nouns and verbs by studying...
Keyword:: semantics, word-class processing , aphasia, morphology, and zero-derivation
Subject:: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Creator:: Sladjana Lukic
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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