How is the voicing contrast in German realised with respect to its laryngeal and supralaryngeal articulation and their coordination? This book offers a comprehensive overview of the underlying articulatory mechanisms and their corresponding acoustics with a particular focus on differences in various word and stress positions. It provides the first data on glottal opening occurring in word final position, where the phonological rule of final devoicing should apply. The results are discussed in light of the phonetics-phonology-interface, the use of phonological terminology, the role of timing,...

Inter-individual variation in speech is a topic of increasing interest both in human sciences and speech technology. It can yield important insights into biological, cognitive, communicative, and social aspects of language. Written by specialists in psycholinguistics, phonetics, speech development, speech perception and speech technology, this volume presents experimental and modeling studies that provide the reader with a deep understanding of interspeaker variability and its role in speech processing, speech development, and interspeaker interactions. It discusses how theoretical models...

Learning and memory processes are basic features of human existence. They allow us to (un)consciously adapt to changes in our social and physical environment in a variety of ways and may have been a precursor for survival in human evolution. Through several reviews and original work the book focuses on three key topics that enhanced our understanding of the topic in the last twenty years: first, the role of real-time auditory feedback in learning, second, the role of motor aspects for learning and memory, and third, representations in memory and the role of sleep on memory consolidation.