The available evidence base indicates that multiple oppositions is a promising intervention with probable efficacy for creating system-wide change that increases speech intelligibility in children ...

Using intracerebral recordings, the authors find abstract prosodic categories in continuous speech are encoded differently to segmental features by Heschl’s gyrus, suggesting specialized ...

Even the smallest tonal variations, such as a speaker’s emphasis or intent, can significantly guide speech processing.

A new study reveals that Heschl’s gyrus, once thought to only process sound, actually plays a crucial role in interpreting speech melody, or prosody.

Abstract: Prosody plays a fundamental role in human speech and communication, facilitating intelligibility and conveying emotional and cognitive states. Extracting accurate prosodic information from ...

Natural speech is always 'contaminated' with prosodic features, which increase word–length variability and introduce pitch and amplitude variations; these variables can be completely avoided ...