Aude NoirayUniversité Grenoble Alpes
Aude Noiray
PhD Habil. Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition (LPNC)
Researcher (HDR), Language Sciences. Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition (LPNC), Université Grenoble-Alpes
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Introduction
My current research focuses on the dynamic relationships developing between perceptual, phonological, lexical, and speech motor abilities in the first decade of children’s life. To carry out this research, I use various empirical methods: ultrasound imaging, eye-movement tracking, acoustic and video, dev. assessments.
My personal webpage: https://noirayaude.wordpress.com
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October 2021 - April 2022
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage
Position
- Researcher
Education
November 2003 - June 2007
Publications
Publications (80)
This study examines the temporal organization of vocalic anticipation in German children from 3 to 7 years of age and adults. The main objective was to test for non-linear processes in vocalic anticipation, which may result from the interaction between lingual gestural goals for individual vowels, and those for their neighbors over time.
The techn...
The development of phonological awareness, the knowledge of the structural combinatoriality of a language, has been widely investigated in relation to reading (dis)ability across languages. However, the extent to which knowledge of phonemic units may interact with spoken language organization in (transparent) alphabetical languages has hardly been...
Open access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-child-language/article/developmental-differences-in-perceptual-anticipation-underlie-different-sensitivities-to-coarticulatory-dynamics/92C7BEF5A7FECED2AE1A96C404CD5C51
Anticipatory coarticulation is an indispensable feature of speech dynamics contributing to spoken language fluency....
Until at least the end of adolescence, children articulate speech differently than adults. While this discrepancy is often attributed to the maturation of the speech motor system, we sought to demonstrate that the development of spoken language fluency is shaped by complex interactions across motor and cognitive domains. In this study, we specifica...
We applied ultrasound tongue imaging to compare read aloud to repeated speech. To figure out whether children's subtle reading disfluencies are detectable in coarticulatory motion of the tongue, we recorded both primary school children and adults.
This paper presents and discusses implications for the phonology-phonetics interface that can be drawn from three of our studies on coarticulatory development across childhood. Vocalic coarticulation towards the left (anticipatory) as well as towards the right side (carryover) was investigated in children between 3 and 9 years of age as well as in...
Purpose
Coarticulatory effects in speech vary across development, but the sources of this variation remain unclear. This study investigated whether developmental differences in intrasyllabic coarticulation degree could be explained by differences in children's articulatory patterns compared to adults.
Method
To address this question, we first comp...
Coarticulatory patterns in developing speech have long been considered to provide a window into speech maturation. Previous research showing that children demonstrate greater degrees of intra-syllabic lingual coarticulation compared to adults has attributed these findings to developmental differences in independent control of speech articulators....
The development of spoken language fluency is shaped by multi-faceted developments in
the speech motor, perception, lexical and phonological domains. In this study, we
specifically investigated whether children’s reading proficiency interacts with their
coarticulatory organization, a fundamental property of spoken language fluency.
Speech perception is dynamic and shows changes across development. In parallel, functional differences in brain development over time have been well documented and these differences may interact with changes in speech perception during infancy and childhood. Further, there is evidence that the two hemispheres contribute unequally to speech segmenta...
This paper reviews data collection practices in electromagnetic articulography (EMA) studies, with a focus on sensor placement. We first introduce electromagnetic articulography as a method. We then focus on existing data collection practices. Our overview is based on a literature review of 905 publications from a large variety of journals and conf...
This work tests the hypothesis that age-related differences in coarticulatory patterns are related to developmental changes in articulatory strategies using ultrasound data analysis and task dynamical computational simulation.
Understanding the development of spoken language in young children has become increasingly important for advancing basic theories of language acquisition and for clinical practice. However, such a goal requires refined measurements of speech articulation (e.g., from the tongue), which are difficult to obtain from young children. In recent years tho...
Alcohol intoxication is known to affect many aspects of human behavior and cognition; one of such affected systems is articulation during speech production. Although much research has revealed that alcohol negatively impacts pronunciation in a first language (L1), there is only initial evidence suggesting a potential beneficial effect of inebriatio...
This study is the first to use kinematic data to assess lingual carryover coarticulation in children. We investigated whether the developmental decrease previously attested in anticipatory coarticulation, as well as the relation between coarticulatory degree and the consonantal context, also characterize carryover coarticulation. Sixty-two children...
This study is the first to use kinematic data to assess lingual carryover coarticulation in children. We investigated whether the developmental decrease previously attested in anticipatory coarticulation, as well as the relation between coarticulatory degree and the consonantal context, also characterize carryover coarticulation. Sixty-two children...
Understanding the development of spoken language in young children has become increasingly important for advancing basic theories of language acquisition and for clinical practice. However, such a goal requires refined measurements of speech articulation (e.g., from the tongue), which are difficult to obtain from young children. In recent years tho...
In this study, we investigated the influence of alcohol intake on pronunciation in both a native and a non-native language. At a Dutch music festival, we recorded the speech of 87 participants in Dutch (native language) and English (non-native language) when reading a few sentences in both languages. The recorded audio samples were judged by 108 so...
Abstract
The development of phonological awareness, the knowledge of the structural combinatoriality of a language, has been widely investigated in relation to its predictive role for reading (dis)ability across languages. However, few studies have investigated to what extent phonological awareness may affect spoken language organization, which in...
The development of phonological awareness, the knowledge of the structural combinatoriality of a language, has been widely investigated in relation to reading (dis)ability across languages. However, the extent to which knowledge of phonemic units may interact with spoken language organization in (transparent) alphabetical languages, has hardly been...
This study investigates developmental differences in infants' attention to audiovisual information .
In the first years of life, children differ greatly from adults in the temporal organization of their speech gestures in fluent language production. However, dissent remains as to the maturational direction of such organization. The present study sheds new light on this process by tracking the development of anticipatory vowel-to-vowel coarticulati...
Summary of the number of analyzed trials per consonant context per age cohort.
Cohort abbreviations are C3–3-year-old children, C4–4-year-old children, C5–5-year-old children, C7–7-year-old children, and A—adults.
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Ultrasound data.
Raw ultrasound image of a 5-year-old boy’s tongue (CM5_005) at the temporal midpoint of the articulation of an [e] on the left and the semi-automatically labeled surface contour on top of the same frame on the right side. The tip of the tongue is to the left in both images.
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Model output for the vowel’s effect on schwa in every consonant context for each cohort.
Cohort abbreviations are C3–3-year-old children, C4–4-year-old children, C5–5-year-old children, C7–7-year-old children, and A—adults.
(DOCX)
Measures of the horizontal position of the highest point on the tongue dorsum.
Column description: SUBJECT—Participant ID (Cohort abbreviation, F—female, M—male, T (in 7-year-olds only: typically developing)), BLOCK—Number of block the word was recorded in, TRIAL—trial number, WORD—stimulus word, CONSONANT1 –C1 in /aɪnə C1VC2ə/, CONSONANT2 –C2 in /...
(In press. Pre-final version, due to copyright)
In previous research, Mutual Information (MI) was employed to quantify the physical information shared between consecutive phonological segments, based on electromagnetic articulography data (EMA).
In this study, MI is extended to quantifying coarticulatory resistance (CR) versus overlap in German adu...
(in press; excerpt from a non final abstract due to copyright restriction)
This study reports on a cross-sectional investigation of lingual coarticulation in 57 typically developing German children (four cohorts from 3.5 to 7 years of age) as compared with 12 adults. It examines whether the organization of lingual gestures for intrasyllabic coartic...
Purpose: This study reports on a cross-sectional investigation of lingual coarticulation in 57
typically developing German children (four cohorts from 3.5 to 7 years of age) as compared
with 12 adults. It examines whether the organization of lingual gestures for intrasyllabic
coarticulation differs as a function of age and consonantal context.
Meth...
This supplement contains the abstracts of the eighth edition of Ultrafest,
which was held in Potsdam, Germany, October 4 – 6, 2017. Ultrafest is an international meeting gathering scientists, speech and language pathologists, engineers and students all working with ultrasound imaging technique for linguistic investigations.
In this study, we examined whether reading disordered (RD) children differ in lingual coarticulatory patterns as compared to their typically developing (TD) peers as a result of potential phonological processing deficits that often include poor phoneme segmentation skills (e.g. Bryant & Bradely, 1981), speech production errors (e.g., Mann & Foy, 20...
Tongue movements for speech segments vary depending on their phonetic context. For adults, it has been shown that these coarticulatory effects do not only occur between adjacent segments but can span several segments in both the anticipatory and carryover direction. Moreover, especially the two directions of vowel-to-vowel (V-to-V) coarticulation a...
A successful characterization of vocal tract control during speech needs to account for regular variability in the degree of coarticulatory overlap allowed by different speech segments. While some segments allow for large degree of articulatory overlap, others show high coarticulation resistance (CR) i.g. ability to resist influence from neighbors...
This is an abstract submitted for the 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control on the developmental changes in lingual control for vowel production in German preschoolers and schoolchildren.
In the domain of spoken language acquisition, a large body of empirical research has focused on coarticulation mechanism, which regards the binding of articulatory gestures for neighboring phonemes. Coarticulation is an important mechanism to investigate as it engages multiple speech articulators (e.g., the lips, the tongue) whose actions must be f...
This study investigates lingual V-to-V anticipatory coarticula-tion in German preschoolers and adults using ultrasound measures. In light of conflicting results in the literature, the aim was to study effects in large cohorts and with a widespread set of vowels. Results provide evidence for V-to-V coarticulation in children as well as adults, indep...
In adults, the production of word pairs that are not identical but share similar phonemes or phoneme sequences (e.g. top cop versus top top) are produced less accurately and more slowly than identical or dissimilar pairs (Butterworth & Whittacker 1980; Sevald & Dell 1994). This has been attributed to competition in planning and executing similar ar...
While the maturation of speech production abilities has been well documented in the past decades, little is known about the temporal organization of the articulatory processes occurring during speech planning. In this study, we tested seven 8 to 10 year-old speakers of American English as well as four adults for comparison. We employed a delayed pi...
The present study investigates the development of coarticulation in German children between 3 and 7 years of age. To quantify coarticulation degree, we will not only apply the commonly used method of Locus Equations (LE) on the acoustic signal, but also on the articulation recorded with ultrasound, which so far has been rarely done in children (Noi...
We present here a customized method developed jointly by scientists at LOLA (Potsdam University) and Haskins Laboratories (New Haven) for the recording of both tongue and lip motion during speech tasks in young children. The method is currently being used to investigate the development of 1) coarticulation (resistance and anticipatory coarticulatio...
In adults, it has been shown that the production of word pairs that are not identical but share similar phonemes are more difficult to produce than word pairs that are either identical or more dissimilar (e.g., Sevald & Dell 1994, Goldrick, Mooshammer et al, 2010), e.g. top cop is more error-prone and takes more time to initiate than identical (top...
This study investigates effects of lexical and sublexical properties on the temporal organization of children’s real word production. In adults, structural, frequency, and probabilistic characteristics of words have been shown to influence word production both at the planning (prior internal organization) and the articulation stage (actual producti...
This study investigates effects of lexical and sublexical properties on the temporal organization of children's real word production. In adults, structural, frequency, and probabilistic characteristics of words have been shown to influence word production both at the planning (prior internal organization) and the articulation stage (actual producti...
The study aims to investigate the development of coarticulation in 5-year old German children. The main goal was to examine the way different aspects of consonant production vary on a quantitative coarticulation -invariance scale as a function of age. To achieve this goal, we employed Mutual Information (MI), a method that has been used to measure...
The nature of the links between speech production and perception has been the subject of longstanding debate. The present study investigated the articulatory parameter of tongue height and the acoustic F1-F0 difference for the phonological distinction of vowel height in American English front vowels. Multiple repetitions of /i, ɪ, e, ε, æ/ in [(h)V...
The present study focuses on differences in lingual coarticulation between French children and adults. The specific question pursued is whether 4-5 year old children have already acquired a synergy observed in adults in which the tongue back helps the tip in the formation of alveolar consonants. Locus equations, estimated from acoustic and ultrasou...
The modeling of anticipatory coarticulation has been the subject of longstanding debates for more than 40 yr. Empirical investigations in the articulatory domain have converged toward two extreme modeling approaches: a maximal anticipation behavior (Look-ahead model) or a fixed pattern (Time-locked model). However, empirical support for any of thes...
Learning to speak a language is related to the emergence of sensorimotor “maps” in which vowels and consonants are associated with articulatory-acoustic vocal tract configurations. One main challenge for young children is to develop these associations while integrating anatomical changes, as well as motor, perceptual, and cognitive abilities (Green...
Tahltan is an Athapaskan language with perhaps the world's only three-way consonant harmony system (dental, alveolar, and alveopalatal). Although most explanations have depended on feature analysis, Gafos [1] proposed that differences in tongue grooving could account for the pattern. Here, we use ultrasound to examine the initial plausibility of th...
The objective of this paper is to study the articulatory strategies used by children to produce speech targets. Those targets can be considered as phonological goals, implemented by phonetic articulatory gestures. Considering the facts that (i) 4-year-old children can produce intelligible phonemes, (ii) their motor control capacities are still imma...
Learning to speak a language is related to the emergence of sensorimotor “maps” in which vowels and consonants are associated with articulatory-acoustic vocal tract configurations.
One main challenge for young children is to develop these associations while integrating anatomical changes, as well as motor, perceptual, and cognitive abilities (Green...
Vowels are generally described along three articulatory dimensions: Height, Fronting and Rounding. These represent primary dimensions (often codified as distinctive features) allowing for comparison among vowels of the world’s languages. Direct measurements of the articulators have been difficult to align with the universal feature system (Fischer-...
This chapter investigates the cross-language validity of the Movement Expansion Model (MEM) and its developmental relevance. The first part reports on a test of the classical rounding anticipatory coarticulation models with adults from two different language backgrounds (American English and Canadian French). Anticipatory movement patterns were des...
In this study, we explore the processes involved in the development of speech motor control using ultrasound recordings. More specifically, we investigate lingual coarticulation in VCV syllables in 4-year-old children and adult French speakers.
Vowels are typically described according to three articulatory dimensions: height, frontness, and rounding. Other researchers propose a role for the jaw in the height dimension. In the present study, we measured the relative contribution of the tongue and jaw for vocalic height distinction in American English vowels. Tongue and jaw motions were col...
This article reports an experimental study on labial anticipatory coarticulation –namely vowel rounding – in French children in-between 3.5 and 8 years of age. Child phonological development beyond 3 years, in the process of language-specific attunement, was not considered as simple emulation behaviour, i.e. aiming at an acoustic goal, but rather a...
One of the goals of speech production research is to understand the functioning of the tongue in the production of overlapping lingual segments. This is especially important since all vocalic and most consonantal contrasts involve a tongue gesture. An obstacle to progress in this area has been the difficulty of observing tongue motion in enough spa...
Though lip constriction is acoustically the most robust parameter for rounding, most studies on anticipatory coarticulation relied on the investigation of protrusion via EMG, optoelectrical systems or audiovisual processing. These various methods produced inconsistent anticipatory profiles across studies or even speakers. The Movement Expansion Mod...
Vowels are traditionally described according to three articulatory dimensions: height, frontness and rounding. Despite the linguistic importance of vowel height in many languages, there is still disagreement about its physiological implementation and its acoustic consequences. One area of controversy is whether the jaw or the tongue dorsum is the m...
A test of the current labial anticipatory coarticulation models was performed on 8 adults (4 American English and 4 Canadian French). The subjects were audiovisually recorded, uttering (iC u) sequences. In order to describe their anticipatory movement patterns, protrusion as well as constriction temporal functions were obtained simultaneously via t...
This article reports an experimental study on labial anticipatory coarticulation – namely vowel rounding – in French children in-between 3.5 and 8 years of age. Child phonological development beyond 3 years, in the process of language-specific attunement, has not been considered here as simple emulation behaviour, i.e. aiming at an acoustic goal, b...
Vowels are traditionally described according to three
articulatory dimensions: height, frontness and
rounding. Despite the linguistic importance of vowel
height in many languages, there is still disagreement
about its physiological implementation and its
acoustic consequences. One area of controversy is
whether the jaw or the tongue dorsum is the m...
L’anticipation semble bien être le secret universel pour la réussite des comportements moteurs. Dans la parole, sous l’aspect de la coarticulation, elle permet de souder les composantes de la syllabe, les syllabes entre elles et les mots. Pendant plus de 40 ans, deux principaux modèles rivaux se sont affrontés sur des langues différentes, essentiel...
We report a longitudinal study initiated on labial anticipatory coarticulation in the framework of a description of motor control development. Four French children between 3,5 and 8 years old have been audio-visually recorded, uttering [iC n y] puppets names, in which C n corresponded to a varying number of intervocalic consonants. A kinetic lip ar...
This study investigates anticipatory labial coarticulation in French children from 3 to 7 years of age by means of articulatory data (i.e, labial shape tracking system).