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Assessing the effect of beat gestures on the perception of lexical stress in full Spanish utterances
In everyday communication, interlocutors typically both hear and see each other. The auditory and visual modalities interact in speech …
Cos, F.
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van Maastricht, L.
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Bosker, H. R.
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Maran, M.
, &
Janse, E.
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Beat gestures facilitate lexical access in quiet and degraded speech
peakers often produce simple up-and-down flicks of the hands, called beat gestures, that are carefully timed with speech. On the …
Maran, M.
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Dragan, S. D.
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Bosker, H. R.
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Rapid Prosody Transcription as a tool to assess the perception of phrase-level prominence in Mandarin
A linguistic unit is commonly considered to bear prominence when it is perceived as more salient than adjacent units. Acoustic factors …
Rohrer, P. L.
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Sun, Y.
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Chen, Y.
, &
Bosker, H. R.
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A gradient effect of hand beat timing on spoken word recognition
Visual cues play a key role in speech perception. Beat gestures (i.e., simple up-and-down hand movements) usually co-occur with …
Ye, C.
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McQueen, J. M.
, &
Bosker, H. R.
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Beat gestures made by human-like avatars affect speech perception
In face-to-face communication, several visual cues support speech perception. Even the timing of simple up-and-down flicks of the hand, …
Maran, M.
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Rötjes, R.
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Schreurs, A. R. E.
, &
Bosker, H. R.
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Gestures time to vowel onset and change the acoustics of the word in Mandarin
Recent research on multimodal language production has revealed that prominence in speech and gesture go hand-in-hand. Specifically, …
Rohrer, P. L.
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Hong, Y.
, &
Bosker, H. R.
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How to test gesture-speech integration in ten minutes
Human conversations are inherently multimodal, including auditory speech, visual articulatory cues, and hand gestures. Recent studies …
Maran, M.
, &
Bosker, H. R.
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Knowledge of a talker’s f0 affects subsequent perception of voiceless fricatives
The human brain deals with the infinite variability of speech through multiple mechanisms. Some of them rely solely on information in …
Uluşahin, O.
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Bosker, H. R.
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McQueen, J. M.
, &
Meyer, A. S.
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Test-retest reliability of audiovisual lexical stress perception after >1.5 years
In natural communication, we typically both see and hear our conversation partner. Speech comprehension thus requires the integration …
Cos, F.
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Bujok, R.
, &
Bosker, H. R.
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The timing of beat gestures affects lexical stress perception in Spanish
It has been shown that when speakers produce hand gestures, addressees are attentive towards these gestures, using them to facilitate …
Rohrer, P. L.
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Bujok, R.
,
van Maastricht, L.
, &
Bosker, H. R.
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