When I open my mouth to speak, sometimes the sentences flow with an effortlessness that most people take for granted. Other times my face clenches and the words come out in repetitive machine-gun ...
The study of second language speech fluency has advanced significantly in recent years, drawing attention to both the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms underlying fluent speech production. This area ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pronunciation accuracy may not be the most important thing for making non-native English speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including fewer pauses, ...
When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But ...
Early research ties word-finding difficulty (WFD) to the same neural highways that falter in Alzheimer’s disease.
Research by Adeen Flinker and Müge Özker at New York University reports regions of the brain that signal when the speech we try to produce doesn’t match what we hear. Publishing February 3 rd in the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Neuroscientists are striving to give a voice to people unable to speak in a fast-advancing quest to harness ...
When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But ...