Linguistics Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
The Realization of Scalar Inferences: Context Sensitivity without Processing Cost
(Public Library of Science, 2013-05-16)Scalar inference is the phenomenon whereby the use of a less informative term (e.g., some of) is inferred to mean the negation of a more informative term (e.g., to mean not all of). Default processing accounts assume that ... -
Parkin, A Top Level Manager in the Cell’s Sanitation Department
(Bentham, 2011)Parkin belongs to a class of multiple RING domain proteins designated as RBR (RING, in between RING, RING) proteins. In this review we examine what is known regarding the structure/function relationship of the Parkin ... -
Models of Successful Cooperation
(Benjamins, 2010-09)This chapter uses case studies to develop a model of productive collaborative research. In contrast to the privileged position academician-researchers may accord themselves, true collaborations recognize full agency in all ... -
Uprooted and replanted: recontextualizing a genre.
(2011-01-26)Decontextualized cultural material presents an interpretive challenge. A list of proverbs gives no indication of the range of social purposes for which speakers deploy them, nor how the proverbs came about. Such proverbs ...
