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Plain-to-clear speech video conversion for enhanced intelligibility
(Springer, 2023-01-28)Clearly articulated speech, relative to plain-style speech, has been shown to improve intelligibility. We examine if visible speech cues in video only can be systematically modified to enhance clear-speech visual features ... -
Obituary: Wendy Herd (1973-2020)
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The Effect of Lexicality, Frequency, and Markedness on Mandarin Tonal Categorization
(Frontiers Media, 2022-07-22)While the Ganong lexicality effect has been observed for phonemic and tonal categorization, the effects of frequency and markedness are less clear, especially in terms of tonal categorization. In this study, we use Mandarin ... -
The Effect of Instructed Second Language Learning on the Acoustic Properties of First Language Speech
(MDPI, 2020-10-26)This paper reports on a comprehensive phonetic study of American classroom learners of Russian, investigating the influence of the second language (L2) on the first language (L1). Russian and English productions of 20 ... -
Voice Reversals and Syntactic Structure: Evidence from Hittite
(Open Library of Humanities, 2020-12-21)We address the relationship between syntactic valency and voice morphology in Hittite (Anatolian, Indo-European), focusing on cases where active syntax is expressed using non-active morphology, and vice versa. We argue ... -
Detecting integration of top-down information using the mismatch negativity: Preliminary evidence from phoneme restoration
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019)The current study utilizes mismatch negativity in the phenomenon of phoneme restoration to investigate the critical debate regarding the integration of top down (lexical) and bottom up (acoustic) processing in spoken word ... -
Investigating the relationship between individual differences and island sensitivity
(Ubiquity Press, 2020-09-17)It is well-attested that native speakers tend to give low acceptability ratings to sentences that involve movement from within islands, yet the source of island effects remains an active debate. The grammatical account ... -
A qualitative study of how self-harm starts and continues among Chinese adolescents
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-12-17)Background It is essential to investigate the experiences behind why adolescents start and continue to self-harm in order to develop targeted treatment and prevent future self-harming behaviours. Aims The aims of this ... -
Investigating the relationship between individual differences and island sensitivity
(Ubiquity Press, 2020-09-17)It is well-attested that native speakers tend to give low acceptability ratings to sentences that involve movement from within islands, yet the source of island effects remains an active debate. The grammatical account ... -
ADFAC: Automatic detection of facial articulatory features
(Elsevier, 2020-07-22)Using computer-vision and image processing techniques, we aim to identify specific visual cues as induced by facial movements made during monosyllabic speech production. The method is named ADFAC: Automatic Detection of ... -
The Role of Surface and Underlying Forms When Processing Tonal Alternations in Mandarin Chinese: A Mismatch Negativity Study
(Frontiers Media, 2020-04-08)Phonological alternation (sound change depending on the phonological environment) poses challenges to spoken word recognition models. Mandarin Chinese T3 sandhi is such a phenomenon in which a tone 3 (T3) changes into a ... -
The Acquisition of Directionals in Two Mayan Languages
(Frontiers Media, 2019-11-01)We use the comparative method of language acquisition research in this article to investigate children’s expression of directional clitics in two Eastern Mayan languages – K’iche’ and Mam (Pye and Pfeiler, 2014; Pye, 2017). ... -
Acoustic and perceptual evidence of complete neutralization of word-final tonal specification in Japanese
(University of Kansas, 2002-05-31)This study investigates the extent to which Japanese lexical pitch-accent distinction is neutralized in word-final position. Native speakers of Tokyo Japanese produced minimal word pairs differing in final accent status. ... -
Sensitivity to Inflectional Morphology in a Non-native Language: Evidence From ERPs
(Frontiers Media, 2019-05-20)The extent to which non-native speakers are sensitive to morphological structure during language processing remains a matter of debate. The present study used a masked-priming lexical decision task with simultaneous ... -
Context-Sensitivity and Individual Differences in the Derivation of Scalar Implicature
(Frontiers Media, 2018-09-20)The derivation of scalar implicatures for the quantifier some has been widely studied to investigate the computation of pragmatically enriched meanings. For example, the sentence “I found some books” carries the semantic ... -
Acoustics and Perception of Clear Fricatives
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Everyday observation indicates that speakers can naturally and spontaneously adopt a speaking style that allows them to be understood more easily when confronted with difficult communicative situations. Previous studies ... -
Almost at-a-distance
(Lingustics and Philosophy, 2019-08-08)We claim that the meaning of the adverbial almost contains both a scalar proximity measure and a modal that allows it to work sometimes when proximity fails, what we call the at-a-distance reading. Essentially, almost can ... -
Kiowa verb incorporation and types of mediating relations
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Latent homomorphism and content satisfaction: The double life of Turkic auxiliary -(I)p bol-
(Ubiquity Press, 2018-04-10)This paper argues that the Turkic auxiliary construction –(İ)p bol–, at least in Uyghur and Uzbek, is actually a pair of auxiliaries with distinct meanings. The first auxiliary is described as expressing “full completion” ... -
An ERP investigation of individual differences in the processing of wh-dependencies by native and non-native speakers
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)This study examines the processing of wh-dependencies by native English speakers and Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners of English. Wh-dependencies involve a long-distance relationship between a fronted wh-word (e.g., who) ...
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