Rise time perception and detection of syllable stress in adults with developmental dyslexia

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-73

  Leong, Victoria ^a   Hämäläinen, Jarmo ^a   Soltész, Fruzsina ^a   Goswami, Usha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Phonology; Rhythm; Rise time; Syllable stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349307150     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Arvaniti A. Rhythm, timing and the timing of rhythm. Phonetica 2009, 66:46-63.
2. Choi J.-Y., Hasegawa-Johnson M., Cole J. Finding intonational boundaries using acoustic cues related to the voice source. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2005, 118:2579-2587.
3. Cooper N., Cutler A., Wales R. Constraints of lexical stress on lexical access in English: Evidence from native and non-native listeners. Language & Speech 2002, 45:207-228.
4. Corriveau K., Pasquini E., Goswami U. Basic auditory processing skills and specific language impairment: A new look at an old hypothesis. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research 2007, 50:1-20.
5. Cummins F., Port R. Rhythmic constraints on stress timing in English. Journal of Phonetics 1998, 26:145-171.
6. Curtin S., Mintz T.H., Christiansen M.H. Stress changes the representational landscape: Evidence from word segmentation. Cognition 2005, 96:233-262.
7. Cutler A. Lexical stress. The handbook of speech perception 2005, 264-289. Blackwell, Oxford. D.B. Pisoni, R.E. Remez (Eds.).
8. Dauer R.M. Stress-timing and syllable-timing reanalyzed. Journal of Phonetics 1983, 11:51-62.
9. Dauer, R. M. (1987). Phonetic and phonological components of language rhythm. Paper presented at the 11th international congress of phonetic sciences (Vol. 5, pp. 447-450). Tallinn.
10. Echols C.H. A role for stress in early speech segmentation. Signal to syntax: Bootstrapping from speech to grammar in early acquisition 1996, 151-170. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ. J.L. Morgan, K. Demuth (Eds.).
11. Foxton, Riviere L.-D., Barone P. Cross-modal facilitation in speech prosody. Cognition 2010, 115:71-78.
12. Fredrickson N., Frith U., Reason R. Phonological assessment battery 1997, NFER-Nelson, Windsor. Standardised ed.
13. Fry D.B. Duration and intensity as physical correlates of linguistic stress. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1954, 26:138.
14. Gerken L. A metrical template account of children's weak syllable omissions from multisyllabic words. Journal of Child Language 1994, 21:565-584.
15. Goswami, U. (in press). Language, music and children's brains: A rhythmic timing perspective on language and music as cognitive systems. In P. Rebuschat et al. (Eds.), Language and music as cognitive systems.
16. Goswami, U., Gerson, D., & Astruc, L. (2009). Amplitude envelope perception, phonology and prosodic sensitivity in children with developmental dyslexia. Reading & Writing. doi:. doi:10.1007/s11145-009-9186-6.
17. Goswami U., Thomson J., Richardson U., Stainthorp R., Hughes D., Rosen S., et al. Amplitude envelope onsets and developmental dyslexia: A new hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2002, 99:10911-10916.
18. Goswami U., Fosker T., Huss M., Mead N., Szücs D. Rise time and formant transition duration in the discrimination of speech sounds: The Ba-Wa distinction in developmental dyslexia. Developmental Science 2010, [Published online March].
19. Goswami, U., Wang, H. -L. S., Cruz, A., Fosker, T., Mead, N., & Huss, M. (2010). Language-universal sensory deficits in developmental dyslexia: English, Spanish, and Chinese. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. doi:. doi:10.1162/jocn.2010.21453.
20. Grabe E., Low E.L. Durational variability in speech and the rhythm class hypothesis. Laboratory phonology 2002, Vol. 7:515-546. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
21. Greenberg S. Speaking in shorthand - A syllable-centric perspective for understanding pronunciation variation. Speech Communication 1999, 29:159-176.
22. Greenberg S. A multi-tier framework for understanding spoken language. Understanding speech: An auditory perspective 2006, 411-434. LEA, Mahweh, NJ. S. Greenberg, W. Ainsworth (Eds.).
23. Greenberg S., Carvey H., Hitchcock L., Chang S. Temporal properties of spontaneous speech - A syllable-centric perspective. Journal of Phonetics 2003, 31:465-485.
24. Gutiérrez-Palma N., Palma-Reyes A. Stress sensitivity and reading performance in Spanish, a study with children. Journal of Research in Reading 2007, 30:157-168.
25. Hämäläinen J., Leppänen P.H.T., Torppa M., Muller K., Lyytinen H. Detection of sound rise time by adults with dyslexia. Brain & Language 2005, 94:32-42.
26. Hämäläinen J., Leppänen P.H.T., Eklund K., Thomson J., Richardson U., Guttorm T.K., et al. Common variance in amplitude envelope perception tasks and their impact on phoneme duration perception and reading and spelling in Finnish children with reading disabilities. Applied Psycholinguistics 2009, 30:511-530.
27. Hämäläinen, J. A., Salminen, H. K., & Leppänen, P. H. T. (in press). Basic auditory processing deficits in dyslexia: Review of the behavioural and event-related potential/field evidence. Journal of Learning Disabilities.
28. Hoequist C.A. The perceptual centre and rhythm categories. Language & Speech 1983, 26:367-376.
29. Huss, M., Verney, J. P., Fosker, T., Fegan, N., & Goswami, U. (2010). Music, rhythm, rise time perception and developmental dyslexia: Perception of musical meter predicts reading and phonology. Cortex doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2010.07.010.
30. Johnson E.K., Tyler M.D. Testing the limits of statistical learning for word segmentation. Developmental Science 2010, 13:339-345.
31. Jusczyk P.W., Houston D.M., Newsome M. The beginnings of word segmentation in English-learning infants. Cognitive Psychology 1999, 39:159-207.
32. Kelly M.H., Morris J., Verrekia L. Orthographic cues to lexical stress: Effects on naming and lexical decision. Memory & Cognition 1998, 26:822-832.
33. Kitzen, K. R. (2001). Prosodic sensitivity, morphological ability and reading ability in young adults with and without childhood histories of reading difficulty. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Columbia, 2001). Dissertation Abstracts International, 62 (02), 0460A.
34. Klein H. Learning to stress: A case study. Journal of Child Language 1984, 11:375-390.
35. Kochanski G., Grabe E., Coleman J., Rosner B. Loudness predicts prominence: Fundamental frequency adds little. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2005, 118:1038-1054.
36. Levitt H. Transformed up-down methods in psychoacoustics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1971, 49:467-477.
37. Liberman, M. (1975). The intonational system of English. Ph.D. thesis, MIT Cambridge, MA. Published by Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1978.
38. Lorenzi C., Dumont A., Fullgrabe C. Use of temporal envelope cues by children with developmental dyslexia. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 2000, 43:1367-1379.
39. Mattys S.L., Juscyk P.W. Phonotactic cues for segmentation of fluent speech by infants. Cognition 2001, 78:91-121.
40. Mehta G., Cutler A. Detection of target phonemes in spontaneous and read speech. Language & Speech 1988, 31:135-156.
41. Miller J., Schwanenflugel P.J. A longitudinal study of the development of reading prosody as a dimension of oral reading fluency in early elementary school children. Reading Research Quarterly 2008, 43:336-354.
42. Morton J., Marcus S.M., Frankish C. Perceptual centres (P-centres). Psychological Review 1976, 83:405-408.
43. Muneaux M., Ziegler J.C., Truc C., Thomson J., Goswami U. Deficits in beat perception and dyslexia: Evidence from French. NeuroReport 2004, 15:1255-1259.
44. Pasquini E., Corriveau K., Goswami U. Auditory processing of amplitude envelope rise time in adults diagnosed with developmental dyslexia. Scientific Studies in Reading 2007, 11:259-286.
45. Pierrehumbert J. Phonetic diversity, statistical learning and acquisition of phonology. Language & Speech 2003, 46:115-154.
46. Port R. How are words stored in memory? Beyond phones and phonemes. New Ideas in Psychology 2007, 25:143-170.
47. Protopapas A., Gerakaki S. Development of processing stress diacritics in reading Greek. Scientific Studies in Reading 2009, 13:453-483.
48. Ramus F., Nespor M., Mehler J. Correlates of linguistic rhythm in speech signal. Cognition 1999, 73:265-292.
49. Richardson U., Thomson J., Scott S.K., Goswami U. Supra-segmental auditory processing skills and phonological representation in dyslexic children. Dyslexia 2004, 10:215-233.
50. Rocheron I., Lorenzi C., Fullgrabe C., Dumont A. Temporal envelope perception in dyslexic children. NeuroReport 2002, 13:1683-1687.
51. Slowiaczek L.M. Effects of lexical stress in auditory word recognition. Language and Speech 1990, 33:47-68.
52. Snowling M.J. Dyslexia 2000, Blackwell, Oxford. 2nd ed.
53. Suranyi S., Csepe V., Richardson U., Thomson J., Honbolygo F., Goswami U. Sensitivity to rhythmic parameters in dyslexic children: A comparison of Hungarian and English. Reading & Writing 2009, 22:41-56.
54. Thiessen E.D., Saffran J.R. When cues collide: Use of stress and statistical cues to word boundaries by 7- to 9-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology 2003, 39:706-716.
55. Thomson J.M., Goswami U. Rhythmic processing in children with developmental dyslexia: Auditory and motor rhythms link to reading and spelling. Journal of Physiology - Paris 2008, 102:120-129.
56. Thomson J.M., Fryer B., Maltby J., Goswami U. Auditory and motor rhythm awareness in adults with dyslexia. Journal of Research in Reading 2006, 29:334-348.
57. Vihman M., Croft W. Phonological development: Towards a "radical" templatic phonology. Linguistics 2007, 45:683-725.
58. Wechsler D. The wechsler adult intelligence scale 1998, The Psychological Corporation, London. 3rd ed.
59. Wechsler D. Wechsler abbreviated scale of intelligence 1999, The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX.
60. Whalley K., Hansen J. The role of prosodic sensitivity in children's reading development. Journal of Research in Reading 2006, 29:288-303.
61. Wilkinson GS. Wide range achievement test 3 1993, Wide Range, Wilmington, DE.
62. Wood C., Terrell C. Poor readers' ability to detect speech rhythm and perceive rapid speech. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 1998, 16:397-413.
63. Ziegler J.C., Goswami U. Reading acquisition, developmental dyslexia, and skilled reading across languages: A psycholiguistic grain size theory. Psychological Bulletin 2005, 131:3-29.