• The Short-Term Acoustic Effects of Vocal Warm-Up on Voice Quality in Non-disordered, Untrained, Female Voices 

  De Deyn, Stephanie (2018)

  This study aims to collect accurate, reliable and valid quantitative data using acoustic analysis of voice, to determine if, and to what extent, vocal warm-up (WU) results in short-term improvement of voice quality in ...

• The effect of an individual’s gender and height, and the perceptual characteristics of a bolus on sip volume 

  Rothery, Katie (2018)

  Background: This study placed focus on variables that may influence the amount of liquid an individual takes on an initial sip from a cup. There is ambiguity surrounding whether gender or height affects sip volume due to ...

• A Comparison of Pragmatic Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically Developing Children. 

  O’ Reilly, Helen (2018)

  Background: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) present with difficulties using pragmatic language and the use of speech acts in social communication is an important indicator of pragmatic skills. Speech acts are ...

• Non-segmental correlates of foreign accent: Perception of accentedness in filtered speech. 

  Unknown author (Queen Margaret University, 2017)

  This study investigated foreign accent detection in filtered speech samples of German bilingual speakers of English. The investigation was conducted with a perceptual experiment and acoustic analysis of the production data. ...

• Why do we sometimes… Hesitate?: A study investigating the variation in prevalence of disfluencies observed in the spontaneous speech of typical speakers. 

  Unknown author (Queen Margaret University, 2017)

  Disfluencies are a common phenomenon in everyday conversational speech, occurring approximately 6 times per 100 words. Previous studies attempting to explore what may affect the frequency of disfluencies in the spontaneous ...

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