Linguistics: Recent submissions
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Experience with a second language affects the use of fundamental frequency in speech segmentation
(Public Library of Science, 2017-07-24)This study investigates whether listeners’ experience with a second language learned later in life affects their use of fundamental frequency (F0) as a cue to word boundaries in the segmentation of an artificial language ... -
Cross-modal Association between Auditory and Visuospatial Information in Mandarin Tone Perception in Noise by Native and Non-native Perceivers
(Frontiers Media, 2017-12-04)Speech perception involves multiple input modalities. Research has indicated that perceivers establish cross-modal associations between auditory and visuospatial events to aid perception. Such intermodal relations can be ... -
Using event-related potentials to track morphosyntactic development in second language learners: The processing of number and gender agreement in Spanish
(Public Library of Science, 2018-07-27)We used event-related potentials to investigate morphosyntactic development in 78 adult English-speaking learners of Spanish as a second language (L2) across the proficiency spectrum. We examined how development is modulated ... -
A lower Chehalis phonology
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Sibilant Contrast: Perception, Production, and Sound Change
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)This study examines sibilant place contrast in the [_i] context in terms of its typology across Chinese dialects and its role in the historical development of Mandarin sibilants. The typology across 170 Chinese dialects ... -
How Native Chinese Listeners and Second-Language Chinese Learners Process Tones in Word Recognition: An Eye-tracking Study
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Chinese and English differ in the types of information they use to convey meaning in words: unlike English, Chinese uses lexical tones (i.e., pitch movement) to contrast word meanings (e.g., in Chinese, the word “ma” can ... -
Explicit teaching of Japanese mimetic words using voicing, gemintion, and reduplication rules
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Mimetics are commonly used by Japanese native speakers to express the manner of actions and sensations. However, they are often not taught explicitly in many Japanese language classrooms. The current study tested a novel ... -
Nominalization in Pulaar
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)There are a few strategies to construct nominal structures and phrases. The Pulaar infinitive, for instance is used genitive nominalization and other non-finite clauses with nominal properties. Relative clause (RC) ... -
Perceptual distinctiveness between dental and palatal sibilants in different vowel contexts and its implications for phonological contrasts
(Ubiquity Press, 2017-07-18)Mandarin Chinese has dental, palatal, and retroflex sibilants, but their contrasts before [_i] are avoided: The palatals appear before [i] while the dentals and retroflexes appear before homorganic syllabic approximants ... -
The role of argument structure in Meꞌphaa verbal agreement
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)This dissertation explores aspects of Me\textcharis{ꞌ}phaa morphosyntax, from verb roots to verb-initial word orders. I argue that patterns of agreement map directly onto the syntax of argument structure, which in turn ... -
THE USE OF SEGMENTAL AND SUPRASEGMENTAL INFORMATION IN LEXICAL ACCESS: A FIRST- AND SECOND-LANGUAGE CHINESE INVESTIGATION
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)The present study investigated first language (L1) and second language (L2) Chinese categorization of tones and segments and use of tones and segments in lexical access. Previous research has shown that English listeners ... -
Dissociating morphological and form priming with novel complex word primes: Evidence from masked priming, overt priming, and event-related potentials
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2015)Recent research suggests that visually-presented words are initially morphologically segmented whenever the letter-string can be exhaustively assigned to existing morphological representations, but not when an exhaustive ... -
Working memory capacity in L2 processing
(De Gruyter, 2016-02-23)In this paper, we review the current state of the second language (L2) processing literature and report data suggesting that this subfield should now turn its attention to working memory capacity as an important factor ... -
Second language lexical processing: influence of teaching method and word characteristics
(University of Kansas, 2004)Word learning was investigated in two experiments: a word translation experiment and a picture naming experiment. Two groups of bilinguals, differing in second language proficiency, were taught 40 Spanish words using one ... -
Acoustic analyses and perceptual data on anticipatory labial coarticulation in adults and children
(Acoustical Society of America, 1985-08)The present study investigated anticipatory labial coarticulation in the speech of adults and children. CV syllables, [s], [t], and [d] before [i] and [u], were produced by an adult male speaker and a female child speaker ... -
fMRI evidence for cortical modification during learning of Mandarin lexical tone
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2006-03-13)Functional magnetic resonance imaging was employed before and after six native English speakers completed lexical tone training as part of a program to learn Mandarin as a second language. Language-related areas including ... -
Acoustic characteristics of clearly spoken English tense and lax vowels
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Just noticeable differences for pitch direction, height, and slope for Mandarin and English listeners
(Acoustical Society of America, 2017-08)Previous studies on tones suggest that Mandarin listeners are more sensitive to pitch direction and slope while English listeners primarily attend to pitch height. In this study, just noticeable differences were established ... -
Syntactic Constraints and Individual Differences in Native and Non-Native Processing of Wh-Movement
(Frontiers Media, 2016-04-22)There is a debate as to whether second language (L2) learners show qualitatively similar processing profiles as native speakers or whether L2 learners are restricted in their ability to use syntactic information during ... -
Effects of the Native Language on the Learning of Fundamental Frequency in Second-Language Speech Segmentation
(Frontiers Media, 2016-06-29)This study investigates whether the learning of prosodic cues to word boundaries in speech segmentation is more difficult if the native and second/foreign languages (L1 and L2) have similar (though non-identical) prosodies ...