• Inequality in access to hearing care for older adults in residential homes 

  White, Joanna D.; Johnson, Christine; DePlacido, Christine; Matthews, Ben; Steenkamp, E. H. (Oxford University Press, 2019-07-31)

  Background The population of older people in residential homes is projected to rise. There are unrecognized hearing difficulties among residents and prevalence of hearing loss in this population is underreported. This can ...

• The effects of syllable and utterance position on tongue shape and gestural magnitude in /l/ and /r/ 

  Lawson, Eleanor; Leplatre, Gregory; Stuart-Smith, Jane; Scobbie, James M. (International Phonetic Association, 2019-08-10)

  This paper is an ultrasound-based articulatory study of the impact of syllable-position and utterance position on tongue shape and tongue-gesture magnitude in liquid consonants in American, Irish and Scottish English. Mixed ...

• Say again? Individual articulatory strategies for producing a clearly-spoken minimal pair wordlist 

  Scobbie, James M.; Ma, Joan K-Y (International Phonetic Association, 2019-08-10)

  We describe articulatory differences (lingual and labial) between two versions (neutral and clear) of a CVC wordlist of 12 targets (V = /ieaɔoʉ/; C_C = /p_p/ or /m_m/). A companion paper describes the background; the ...

• Bulgarian vowel reduction in unstressed position: An ultrasound and acoustic investigation 

  Dokovova, Marie; Sabev, Mitko; Scobbie, James M.; Lickley, Robin; Cowen, Steve (International Phonetic Association, 2019-08-10)

  Vowel reduction in Contemporary Standard Bulgarian (CSB) has been variously claimed to involve raising, no change or lowering of the high vowels /iəu/. There is a general agreement that the low vowels /ɛaɔ/ are raised when ...

• Say again? Individual acoustic strategies for producing a clearly-spoken minimal pair wordlist 

  Scobbie, James M.; Ma, Joan K-Y (International Phonetic Association, 2019-08-10)

  People make their speech clearer in difficult conversational contexts using global mechanisms (e.g. “Lombard Speech”) and by targeted enhancements of linguistic constituents (“hyperspeech”). We describe production changes ...

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