Linguistics Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The recruitment of knowledge regarding plurality and compound formation during language comprehension
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2012-01-01)Compound formation has been a major focus of research and debate in mental lexicon research. In particular, it has been widely observed that compounds with a regular plural non-head are dispreferred, and a long line of ... -
Contingent categorization in speech perception
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)The speech signal is notoriously variable, with the same phoneme realized differently depending on factors like talker and phonetic context. Variance in the speech signal has led to a proliferation of theories of how ... -
Speakers of tonal and non-tonal Korean dialects use different cue weightings in the perception of the three-way laryngeal stop contrast
(Elsevier, 2013-03)The current study investigated the perception of the three-way distinction among Korean voiceless stops in non-tonal Seoul and tonal Kyungsang Korean. The question addressed is whether listeners from these two dialects ... -
Electrophysiological evidence for the morpheme-based combinatoric processing of English compounds
(Taylor and Francis, 2014)The extent to which the processing of compounds (e.g., “catfish”) makes recourse to morphological-level representations remains a matter of debate. Moreover, positing a morpheme-level route to complex word recognition ... -
Distinct neural correlates for pragmatic and semantic meaning processing: An event-related potential investigation of scalar implicature processing using picture-sentence verification
(Elsevier, 2012-10-26)The present study examines the brain-level representation and composition of meaning in scalar quantifiers (e.g., some), which have both a semantic meaning (at least one) and a pragmatic meaning (not all). We adopted a ... -
Pragmatic inferences modulate N400 during sentence comprehension: evidence from picture-sentence verification
(Elsevier, 2013-02-08)The present study examines the online realization of pragmatic meaning using event-related potentials (ERPs). Participants read sentences including the English quantifier some, which has both a semantic meaning (at least ... -
A Survey of Switch-Reference in North America
(International Journal of American Linguistics, 2015-07)This paper introduces a new survey of switch-reference in the languages of North America. The survey’s purposes are to provide a broad basis for future analysis of switch-reference (SR), spur further research on the languages ... -
The Pragmatics of Proverb Performance in Limonese Creole
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Two Types of Noun Incorporation: A Lexical Analysis
(Linguistic Society of America, 1989-06-01)In recent work Noun Incorporation has been argued to result from head movement, in which the head of an object noun phrase moves into the verb, creating a complex verb. This paper argues instead that NI derives from word ... -
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Mayan Telegraphese: Intonational Determinants of Inflectional Development in Quiché Mayan
(Linguistic Society of America, 1983-09-01)See article for abstract.