In this paper, we draw on data from world languages teachers (English, Spanish and French, in particular) to explore and unpack binaries encountered i... [more]
Decades of research has investigated the heterogeneity of English among speakers of various linguistic and cultural backgrounds, but there still remai... [more]
By speaking loudly for extended periods, teachers are vulnerable to laryngeal and voice changes associated with vocal fold vibration overdose. Voice clinicians frequently recommend voice amplification ostensibly designed to reduce vibration dose and impro
Distinguishing between vocal changes that occur with normal aging and those that are associated with disease is an important goal of research in voice. Several acoustic measures have been used in an attempt to illuminate the integrity of the vocal mechani
Normative voice range profiles (VRPs) are calculated for a group of untrained boys and girls between 6 and 11 years based on 35 and 39 recordings, respectively. All individuals had healthy voices. These normative VRPs contain 95% prediction intervals (PI)
Behavioural models offer the ability to simulate autonomous agents like organisms and living beings. Psychological studies have shown that human behaviour can be described by a perception-decision-action loop, in which the decisional process should integr
Background. This systematic review aimed at evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of pulse examination in detecting surgical arterial lesions associated with knee dislocation. Methods. MEDLINE, CINAHL, and SportDiscus databases were searched in all languages
Objective: To investigate the 3-year course of learning disorders (LDs) and academic achievement in a sample of students with psychiatric disorders who were newly classified by the special education category of behavioral disorder (BD). Method: The occurr
In this paper we consider the problem of scheduling expression trees on delayed-load architectures. The problem tackled here takes root from the one considered in [Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '91 Conf. on Programming Language Design and Implementation
I show that any sentence of nth-order (pure or applied) arithmetic can be expressed with no loss of compositionality as a second-order sentence containing no arithmetical vocabulary, and use this result to prove a completeness theorem for applied arithmet
Speech recognition in noise improves when speech and noise sources are separated in space. This benefit has two components whose effects are strongest, in different frequency regions: (1) interaural level differences (e.g., head Shadow), which are largest
Classical temporal integration (TI) is often viewed as a frequency-dependent, energy-based detection process. Detection thresholds for brief sinusoidal increments in either a fixed-level or a random-level broadband pedestal are reported that refute this t
To accommodate growing vocabularies, young children are thought to modify their perceptual weights as they gain experience with speech and language.The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the perceptual weights of children and adults wit
Listeners with normal hearing (NH) and with sensorineural hearing impairment (HI) were tested on a speech-recognition task requiring across-frequency integration of temporal speech information. Listeners with NH correctly identified a majority of key word
Age-related hearing loss (ARHL or presbyacusis) is an increasingly common form of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) as a result of changing demographics, and the auditory brainstem response (ABR) is a common experimental and clinical tool in audiology and
Narratives were elicited in two story tasks, retelling and generation, from two groups of adults, 55 with closed head injury (CHI) and 47 non-brain-injured (NBI), recruited from rehabilitation facilities. in three northeastern states. Participants were cl
Late talkers with normal receptive language and typically developing peers matched at 24- to 31-month intake on socieoeconomic status and nonverbal cognitive skills were compared at age 3 (N = 29, 20) and age A (N = 37, 16) on grammatical morpheme supplia