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Linguistics: Recent submissions
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Analysis of Pronunciation Errors of Saudi ESL Learners
(Dept. of Linguistics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2008-08)This study was conducted as a qualitative investigation to determine the difficulty of /p v r/ to Saudi ESL speakers. More specifically, this study investigated what word environments were most difficult for Saudi speakers -
Grammatically-guided resolution of filler-gap dependencies: An investigation of Chinese multiple dependencies
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)Previous studies have provided evidence that the parser avoids positing gaps in grammatically unlicensed positions such as islands, suggesting that the grammar constrains the construction of filler-gap dependencies (e.g., ... -
The role of phonological alternation in speech production: evidence from Mandarin tone sandhi
(Acousical Society of America, 2012)We investigate the role of phonological alternation during speech production in Mandarin using implicit priming, a paradigm in which participants respond faster to words in sets that are phonologically homogeneous than in ... -
Paragraph Structure in Arabic and English Expository Discourse
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Proficiency and working memory based explanations for nonnative speakers’ sensitivity to agreement in sentence processing
(University of Chicago Press, 2013-03-07)This study examines the roles of proficiency and working memory (WM) capacity in second-/foreign-language (L2) learners’ processing of agreement morphology. It investigates the processing of grammatical and ungrammatical ... -
Free Relative Clauses in Two Mixtec Languages
(University of Chicago Press, 2013-01)Two previously unstudied Mixtec languages—Nieves Mixtec and Melchor Ocampo Mixtec—are investigated, with special emphasis on free relative clauses and two related wh-constructions: interrogative wh-clauses and headed ... -
A Tale of Two Mam Children: Contact-Induced Language Change in Mayan Child Language
(University of Chicago Press, 2013-10)Mayan languages have been in contact with Spanish for nearly 500 years and yet maintain much of their structural integrity. The arrival of bilingual schools and television has now altered the circumstance of language use ... -
Syntactic Islands in Uyghur
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)In this thesis, I investigate the status of syntactic islands in Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. Syntactic islands are constructions originally ... -
Evidence of diachronic sound change: A comparative acoustic study of Seoul and Kyungsang Korean
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)The phonetics and phonology of the Kyungsang dialect of Korean is distinct from those of the standard Seoul dialect with regard to segments and lexical pitch. However, whether the distinctive phonetics and phonology of ... -
The morpho-syntax of silent wh-expressions in Wolof
(Springer Netherlands, 2011-11-01)This paper analyzes the morphology and syntax of wh-expressions and agreeing complementizers in Wolof, an Atlantic language. I argue that Wolof possesses a set of null wh-expressions, in addition to a set of overt ones. ... -
LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF IRAQI NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ARABIC: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC INVESTIGATION
(2014-05-20)This study investigates language attitudes of Iraqi native speakers of Arabic towards two Arabic varieties in Iraq, Standard Arabic (SA) and Iraqi Arabic (IA). The sample of the study comprises 196 participants divided ... -
Categorization of Sounds
(The American Psychological Association, 2006-06-01)The authors conducted 4 experiments to test the decision-bound, prototype, and distribution theories for the categorization of sounds. They used as stimuli sounds varying in either resonance frequency or duration. They ... -
Contributions of semantic and facial information to perception of non-sibilant fricatives
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2003-12-01)Most studies have been unable to identify reliable acoustic cues for the recognition of the English nonsibilant fricatives /f, v, θ, ð/. The present study was designed to test the extent to which the perception of these ... -
What information is necessary for speech categorization? Harnessing variability in the speech signal by integrating cues computed relative to expectations
(The American Psychological Association, 2011-04-01)Most theories of categorization emphasize how continuous perceptual information is mapped to categories. However, equally important are the informational assumptions of a model, the type of information subserving this ... -
The phonological status of Dutch epenthetic schwa
(Cambridge University Press, 2002-08-06)In this paper, we use articulatory measures to determine whether Dutch schwa epenthesis is an abstract phonological process or a concrete phonetic process depending on articulatory timing. We examine tongue position during ... -
Acoustic and perceptual evaluation of Mandarin tone productions before and after perceptual training
(The Acoustical Society of America, 2003-02-01)Training American listeners to perceive Mandarin tones has been shown to be effective, with trainees’ identification improving by 21%. Improvement also generalized to new stimuli and new talkers, and was retained when ... -
Training American listeners to perceive Mandarin tones
(The Acoustical Society of America, 1999-12-01)Auditory training has been shown to be effective in the identification of non-native segmental distinctions. In this study, it was investigated whether such training is applicable to the acquisition of non-native ... -
Modified locus equations categorize stop place in a perceptually realistic time frame
(The Acoustical Society of America, 2012-06-01)Slope and y-intercepts of locus equations have previously been shown to successfully classify place of articulation for English voiced stop consonants when derived from measurements at vowel onset and vowel midpoint. ... -
Speaker normalization in the perception of Mandarin Chinese tones
(The Acoustical Society of America, 1997-09-01)This study investigated speaker normalization in perception of Mandarin tone 2 (midrising) and tone 3 (low-falling–rising) by examining listeners’ use of F0 range as a cue to speaker identity. Two speakers were selected ... -
Acoustic characteristics of clearly spoken English fricatives
(The Acoustical Society of America, 2009-06-01)Speakers can adopt a speaking style that allows them to be understood more easily in difficult communication situations, but few studies have examined the acoustic properties of clearly produced consonants in detail. This ...