Books in the Speech Production and Perception series

Through several reviews and original work, the book focuses on three key topics: first, the role of real-time auditory feedback in learning, second, the role of motor aspects for learning and memory, and third, representations in memory and the role of sleep on memory consolidation.

This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans.

This book is concerned with the articulatory coordination of syllable structure in Italian. The results shown in this book shed light on a long standing problem for syllable phonology in Italian, namely the syllabification of "s" when it occurs in a consonant cluster such as "sp" in "sport".

Inter-individual variation in speech is a topic of increasing interest in the humanities. It can yield important insights into biological, linguistic, cognitive, and social features of language. The big challenge is to find out which speaker- and listener-specific details are crucial. This book introduces such details from various perspectives.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of glottalization in word-final syllables in Italian. Combining theory-based and experimental approaches, the book sheds light on the source of word-final glottalization, the contextual factors determining its occurrence, and the acoustic correlates which characterize its production.