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Linguistics: Recent submissions
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Perception of clear fricatives by normal-hearing and simulated hearing-impaired listeners
(The Acoustical Society of America, 2008-02-01)Speakers may adapt the phonetic details of their productions when they anticipate perceptual difficulty or comprehension failure on the part of a listener. Previous research suggests that a speaking style known as clear ... -
American Chinese learners’; acquisition of L2 Chinese affricates /ts/ and /tsh/
(The Acoustical Society of America, 2013-03-12)Many studies on L2 speech learning focused on testing the L1 transfer hypothesis. In general, L2 phonemes were found to be merged with similar L1 phoneme to different degrees (Flege 1995). Few studies examined whether ... -
Measures of the sentence intonation of read and spontaneous speech in American English
(The Acoustical Society of America, 1985-02-01)The visual abstraction procedure used in previous studies of declination was tested using 12 subjects who each fit the F 0 contours of 19 spoken short simple sentences with baselines. These baselines were found to be poorly ... -
Method for the location of burst-onset spectra in the auditory-perceptual space: A study of place of articulation in voiceless stop consonants
(The Acoustical Society of America, 1991-02-01)A method for distinguishing burst onsets of voiceless stop consonants in terms of place of articulation is described. Four speakers produced the voiceless stops in word‐initial position in six vowel contexts. A metric was ... -
Duration of frication noise required for identification of English fricatives
(The Acoustical Society of America, 1989-04-01)Natural speech consonant–vowel (CV) syllables ([f, s, θ, š, v, z, F] followed by [i, u, a]) were computer edited to include 20–70 ms of their frication noise in 10‐ms steps as measured from their onset, as well as the ... -
Acoustic characteristics of English fricatives
(The Acoustical Society of America, 2000-09-01)This study constitutes a large-scale comparative analysis of acoustic cues for classification of place of articulation in fricatives. To date, no single metric has been found to classify fricative place of articulation ... -
Perceptual and production training of intervocalic /d, Q, r/ in American English learners of Spanish
(Acoustical Society of America, 2013-06-01)This study investigates the effectiveness of three high variability training paradigms in training 42 speakers of American English to correctly perceive and produce Spanish intervocalic /d, ɾ, r/. Since Spanish spirantization ... -
Effects of variance and input distribution on the training of L2 learners' tone categorization
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Recent psycholinguistic findings showed that (a) a multi-modal phonetic training paradigm that encodes visual, interactive information is more effective in training L2 learners' perception of novel categories, (b) decreasing ... -
The Clause Structure of Pulaar
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)In this thesis, I investigate the clause structure of Pulaar, an Atlantic language spoken in Senegal. Specifically, I look at the ordering of functional heads under the hypothesis on the Hierarchy of Functional Heads in ... -
Perception of sound symbolism in mimetic stimuli: The voicing contrast in Japanese and English
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Sound symbolism is a concept in which the sound of a word and the meaning of the word are systematically related. Some aspects of sound symbolism have been found to be language-specific and some to be cross-linguistic. The ... -
THE PRODUCTION OF EMPHASIS BY SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS OF ARABIC
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)The purpose of this study was to examine the production of emphasis by American L2 learners of Arabic. Nineteen participants, 5 native speakers and 14 L2 learners participated in a production experiment in which they ... -
The Interaction of Indirect Evidentiality, Temporality and Epistemic Modality in Jordanian Arabic: The Case of Deverbal Agentives
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Abstract Evidentiality is commonly concerned with two basic notions: evidence type and the speaker's commitment towards the truth of the proposition expressed (Chafe and Nichols 1986). Throughout a detailed study of the ... -
Speaker Sex Influences Processing of Grammatical Gender
(Public Library of Science, 2013-11-13)Spoken words carry linguistic and indexical information to listeners. Abstractionist models of spoken word recognition suggest that indexical information is stripped away in a process called normalization to allow processing ... -
Effects of tone on the three-way laryngeal distinction in Korean: An acoustic and aerodynamic comparison of the Seoul and South Kyungsang dialects
(International Phonetic Association, 2012-08-01)The three-way laryngeal distinction among voiceless Korean stops has been well documented for the Seoul dialect. The present study compares the acoustic and aerodynamic properties of this stop series between two dialects, ... -
fMRI evidence for cortical modification during language learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003-10-01)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 ... -
The role of linguistic experience in the hemispheric processing of lexical tone
(Cambridge University Press, 2004-06-01)This study investigated hemispheric lateralization of Mandarin tone. Four groups of listeners were examined: native Mandarin listeners, English–Mandarin bilinguals, Norwegian listeners with experience with Norwegian tone, ... -
Phonation Types in Marathi: An Acoustic Investigation
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)This dissertation presents a comprehensive instrumental acoustic analysis of phonation type distinctions in Marathi, an Indic language with numerous breathy voiced sonorants and obstruents. Important new facts about breathy ... -
The Role of the L1 and Individual Differences in L2 Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Features: An ERP Investigation
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)This study used ERP (event-related potentials) to examine both the role of the L1 and the role of individual differences in the processing of agreement violations. Theories of L2 acquisition differ with regard to whether ... -
Ideology, Gender Roles, and Pronominal Choice: A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English third person generic pronouns by native speakers of Arabic
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This study is a sociolinguistic investigation of the use of four English generic pronouns (he, she, he or she, singular they) by Arabic-speaking second language learners of English. This study takes a different approach ... -
ACOUSTIC CORRELATES OF LEXICAL STRESS IN NATIVE SPEAKERS OF UYGHUR AND L2 LEARNERS
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)Some syllables are louder, longer and stronger than other syllables at the lexical level. These prominent prosodic characteristics of certain syllables are captured by suprasegmental features including fundamental frequency, ...