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Vocal Learning in Adulthood: Investigating the mechanisms of vocal imitation ...
This collection contains behavioural and brain activation data from 3 laboratory studies of speech imitation. Each of the three studies involved behavioural and imaging (MRI)... -
Carers' talk to children with language difficulties during shared book readin...
The aim of this research was to explore whether the advantages of shared book reading (the joint attention and high quality adult language input) remain true where children have... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Multiple Cu...
It has long been claimed that the child’s experience of language is not sufficient to enable them to learn language, and so language structure must be innate and internal to the... -
The Use and Utility of Localised Speech Forms in Determining Identity Corpus ...
The data deposited are taken from fieldwork recordings undertaken with speakers from the three fieldwork sites, Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the Northeast of... -
Interference in spoken communication: Evaluating the corrupting and disruptin...
The datasets comprise behavioural responses to speech stimuli. These stimuli are either simplified analogues of spoken sentence-length utterances or syllables (for datasets 1-4... -
LifeLUCID Corpus: Recordings of Speakers Aged 8 to 85 Years Engaged in Intera...
This speech corpus contains recordings for 104 monolingual native southern British English speakers aged between 8 and 85 years old while they engaged in a problem-solving... -
WYRED - West Yorkshire Regional English Database 2016-2019
The West Yorkshire Regional English Database (WYRED) consists of approximately 200 hours of high-quality audio recordings of 180 West Yorkshire (British English) speakers. All... -
Mental simulations of phonological representations are causally linked to sil...
In three experiments, this project explored the phonological aspect and the causal role of speech simulations in silent reading of tongue twisters in direct speech, indirect... -
Discrimination Thresholds of Duration, Intensity, and F0 for a Synthesized Vo...
This dataset contains measures of just-noticeable differences, or JND, of duration (ms), intensity (dB), and pitch or F0 (Hz) for a synthetic vowel. JNDs were measured under 4... -
English Liquid Consonants Ultrasound Tongue Imaging Video Database, 2016-2019
The English Liquids video corpus is a subset of the ultrasound speech corpus generated from the Changes in Shape, Space and Time, project, and two other ultrasound corpora... -
Reading Direct Speech Quotes Increases Theta Phase-locking: Evidence for Thet...
Growing evidence shows that theta-band (4-7Hz) activity in the auditory cortex phase-locks to rhythms of overt speech. Does theta activity also encode the rhythmic dynamics of... -
Speech Across Dialects of English: Acoustic Measures from SPADE Project Corpo...
The SPADE project aims to develop and apply user-friendly software for large-scale speech analysis of existing public and private English speech datasets, in order to understand...