Research has demonstrated distinct roles for consonants and vowels in speech processing. For example, consonants have been shown to support lexical processes, such as the segmentation of speech based on transitional ...

It is known that speech manifests itself not only acoustically, but also visually, through facial movements and body gestures, in addition to having physiological correlates such as movement of the vocal tract and neural ...

The purpose of this dissertation was to understand the possible relationships among exposure to high sound pressure levels, auditory processing, and performance in the routes of reading and writing, having in mind that ...

Lexical metaphors are still little studied in the light of the theoretical and methodological approach of Systemic-Functional Linguistics, especially regarding their evaluative potential, revealed by investigation from ...

Of the three aspects of intonation normally taught at EFL teacher/translator training colleges, namely the ‘chunking’ of speech into tone groups, the location of a main prominence or nucleus, and the behaviour of the pitch ...

In this work, we analyze the ethos of a self-help book on finances directed specifically to the female audience, in order to reveal the image that the enunciator of the book projects of herself by its mode of enunciation. ...