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Spring 2015
This dissertation examines native speaker perception and processing of the variability inherent to non-native speech, specifically, Mandarin-accented English. In order to accomplish this, subjective ratings were first collected as a measure of perceived foreign accentedness. The influence of...
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Pitch perception in vocal learners: Fundamental shared components of pitch processing and biological relevance
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Pitch perception is important in both music and language perception in humans. Vocal learners, including humans, share the property of learning their vocalizations from a tutor when young. Similar behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying vocal production among different species of vocal...
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Sensory processing and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
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Although sensory processing abnormalities and attention deficits are both used in the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), their relationship has not previously been explored in children with FASD. A very low correlation between sensory processing, measured by the total and...
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2016-01-01
Gao, H.H., Nicoladis, E. , Wang, H.
Within a semantic domain, terms that can be used in a similar way to describe a similar event are members of the same class of words, or near-synonyms. They are common in a language but difficult to distinguish from one and another. Physical action verbs such as ‘throw’ verbs are a typical...