• The dynamics of voiceless sibilant fricative production in children between seven and thirteen years old: an ultrasound and acoustic study 

  Hardcastle, William J.; Gibbon, Fiona E.; Zharkova, Natalia (Acoustical Society of America, 2018-09-19)

  This study reports on dynamic tongue shape and spectral characteristics of sibilant fricatives /s/ and /ʃ/ in Scottish English speaking children aged between 7 and 13 years old. The sequences /əCa/ and /əCi/ were produced ...
• Preface to the special issue on covert contrasts 

  Gibbon, Fiona E.; Lee, Alice S. (Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2016-12-07)
• Speaking rate and articulation rate of native speakers of Irish English 

  Doherty, Rachel; Lee, Alice S. (Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2017-02-14)

  Previous studies have shown apparent difference in speaking rate and/or articulation rate between different dialects of English. In addition, native speakers of Irish English are perceived to be speaking very fast; however, ...
• Speech and language therapy for aphasia following stroke 

  Brady, Marian C.; Kelly, Helen; Godwin, John; Enderby, Pam; Campbell, Pauline (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; Cochrane Collaboration, 2016-06-01)

  Background: Aphasia is an acquired language impairment following brain damage that affects some or all language modalities: expression and understanding of speech, reading, and writing. Approximately one third of people ...
• The effect of different speaker accents on sentence comprehension in children with speech sound disorder. 

  Harte, Jennifer; Frizelle, Pauline; Gibbon, Fiona E. (Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-26)

  There is substantial evidence that a speaker’s accent, specifically an unfamiliar accent, can affect the listener’s comprehension. In general, this effect holds true for both adults and children as well as those with typical ...

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