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Language and Speech is a peer-reviewed journal which provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of human production, perception, processing, learning, use, and disorders of speech and language. The journal accepts reports of original research in all these areas. Interdisciplinary submissions are encouraged. Corpus-based, experimental, and observational research bringing spoken or written language within the domain … View full journal description

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Perceiving and Modeling the Scope of Question Focus in Korean

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  • Yoolim Kim
  • Cong Zhang
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Comparing Prosodic Timing Effects in Hadari and Bedouin Dialects of Kuwaiti Arabic: A Speech Cycling Study

  • Saleh Ghadanfari
  • Jalal Al-Tamimi
  • Ghada Khattab
  • Laurence White
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Effects of Native Language and Exposure to Foreign Language on Categorization and Discrimination of Vowel Duration and Lexical Tone

  • Kaijun Jiang
  • Xueqiao Li
  • Chaoxiong Ye
  • Peixin Nie
  • Jarmo A. Hämäläinen
  • Piia Astikainen
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External Vowel Sandhi in Castilian Spanish: An Acoustic Study of Vowel Sequences Across Word Junctures

  • Miquel Simonet
  • Jessica C. Tiegs
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Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics

  • Christine Mooshammer
  • Dominique Bobeck
  • Henrik Hornecker
  • Kierán Meinhardt
  • Olga Olina
  • Marie Christin Walch
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Bilinguals from Larynx to Lips: Exploring Bilingual Articulatory Strategies with Anatomic MRI Data

  • Pierre Badin
  • Thomas R. Sawallis
  • Marija Tabain
  • Laurent Lamalle
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Early L2 Spoken Word Recognition Combines Input-Based and Knowledge-Based Processing

  • Seth Wiener
  • Kiwako Ito
  • Shari R Speer
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Regional Variation in West and East Coast African-American English Prosody and Rap Flows

  • Steven Gilbers
  • Nienke Hoeksema
  • Kees de Bot
  • Wander Lowie
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A Corpus Study on the Difference of Turn-Taking in Online Audio, Online Video, and Face-to-Face Conversation

  • Ying Tian
  • Siyun Liu
  • Jianying Wang
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How Different Types of Linguistic Information Impact Voice Perception: Evidence From the Language-Familiarity Effect

  • Keke Yu
  • Yacong Zhou
  • Linjun Zhang
  • Li Li
  • Ping Li
  • Ruiming Wang
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Phonetic and Phono-Lexical Accuracy of Non-Native Tone Production by English-L1 and Mandarin-L1 Speakers

  • Tim Joris Laméris
  • Katrina Kechun Li
  • Brechtje Post
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Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions

  • Rose Stamp
  • David Cohn
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  • Wendy Sandler
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