journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37341707/individual-differences-in-attention-control-and-the-processing-of-phonological-contrasts-in-a-second-language
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joan C Mora, Isabelle Darcy
This study investigated attention control in L2 phonological processing from a cognitive individual differences perspective, to determine its role in predicting phonological acquisition in adult L2 learning. Participants were 21 L1-Spanish learners of English, and 19 L1-English learners of Spanish. Attention control was measured through a novel speech-based attention-switching task. Phonological processing was assessed through a speeded ABX categorization task (perception) and a delayed sentence repetition task (production)...
June 21, 2023: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37319340/merger-in-eivissan-catalan-an-acoustic-analysis-of-the-vowel-systems-of-young-native-speakers
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Silke Hamann, Francesc Torres-Tamarit
The vowel system of Catalan has been the focus of many studies, though work on the varieties spoken on the island of Eivissa (Ibiza) are scarce, with a single mention of the possible merger of the mid back vowels /o, ɔ/ (Torres Torres, Marià. 1983. Aspectes del vocalisme tònic eivissenc. Eivissa 14. 22-23). The present article provides the first acoustic analysis of the vowel inventory of 25 young native speakers of Eivissan Catalan, with a focus on the realisations of stressed /ə, ɛ/, and the back mid vowels /o, ɔ/...
June 16, 2023: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37312566/word-level-prosodic-and-metrical-influences-on-hawaiian-glottal-stop-realization
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lisa Davidson, Oiwi Parker Jones
Previous research on the phonetic realization of Hawaiian glottal stops has shown that it can be produced several ways, including with creaky voice, full closure, or modal voice. This study investigates whether the realization is conditioned by word-level prosodic or metrical factors, which would be consistent with research demonstrating that segmental distribution and phonetic realization can be sensitive to word-internal structure. At the same time, it has also been shown that prosodic prominence, such as syllable stress, can affect phonetic realization...
June 15, 2023: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37314963/two-part-vowel-modifications-in-child-directed-speech-in-warlpiri-may-enhance-child-attention-to-speech-and-scaffold-noun-acquisition
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rikke L Bundgaard-Nielsen, Carmel O'Shannessy, Yizhou Wang, Alice Nelson, Jessie Bartlett, Vanessa Davis
Study 1 compared vowels in Child Directed Speech (CDS; child ages 25-46 months) to vowels in Adult Directed Speech (ADS) in natural conversation in the Australian Indigenous language Warlpiri, which has three vowels (/i/, /a/, /u). Study 2 compared the vowels of the child interlocutors from Study 1 to caregiver ADS and CDS. Study 1 indicates that Warlpiri CDS vowels are characterised by fronting, /a/-lowering, f o -raising, and increased duration, but not vowel space expansion. Vowels in CDS nouns, however, show increased between-contrast differentiation and reduced within-contrast variation, similar to what has been reported for other languages...
June 14, 2023: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37261920/development-of-perceptual-similarity-and-discriminability-the-perception-of-russian-phonemes-by-chinese-learners
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuxiao Yang, Sunfu Chen, Fei Chen, Junzhou Ma
This study explored the perceptual assimilation and discrimination of Russian phonemes by three groups of Chinese listeners with differing Russian learning experience. A perceptual assimilation task (PAT) and a perceptual discrimination test (PDT) were conducted to investigate if/how L1-L2 perceptual similarity would vary as a function of increased learning experience, and the development of assimilation-discrimination relations. The PAT was analyzed via assimilation rates, dispersion K' values, goodness ratings and assimilation patterns...
June 1, 2023: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37013664/difficulties-in-decoupling-articulatory-gestures-in-l2-phonemic-sequences-the-case-of-mandarin-listeners-perceptual-deletion-of-english-post-vocalic-laterals
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yizhou Wang, Rikke L Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett J Baker, Olga Maxwell
Nonnative or second language (L2) perception of segmental sequences is often characterised by perceptual modification processes, which may "repair" a nonnative sequence that is phonotactically illegal in the listeners' native language (L1) by transforming the sequence into a sequence that is phonotactically legal in the L1. Often repairs involve the insertion of phonetic materials (epenthesis), but we focus, here, on the less-studied phenomenon of perceptual deletion of nonnative phonemes by testing L1 Mandarin listeners' perception of post-vocalic laterals in L2 English using the triangulating methods of a cross-language goodness rating task, an AXB task, and an AX task...
April 4, 2023: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36974956/robustness-of-lateral-tongue-bracing-under-bite-block-perturbation
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yadong Liu, Sophia Luo, Monika Łuszczuk, Connor Mayer, Arian Shamei, Gillian de Boer, Bryan Gick
Lateral tongue bracing is a lingual posture in which the sides of the tongue are held against the palate and upper molars, and has been observed cross-linguistically. However, it is unknown whether lateral bracing makes adjustments to external perturbation like other body postures. The present study aims to test the robustness of lateral tongue bracing with three experiments. The first baseline experiment was an analysis of an electropalatogram database and the results showed lateral bracing being continuously maintained...
March 29, 2023: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36927603/uptalk-in-l2-english-the-phonetic-identity-and-perception-of-final-declarative-rises-in-serbian-efl
#28
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tatjana Paunović
Uptalk has been increasingly documented in different L1 English varieties and communicative contexts, but is rarely recognized in formal L2 educational contexts, where it is still attributed to learners' inadequate mastery of intonation. This study is a cross-sectional corpus-based exploration of the phonetic realization of uptalk in Serbian EFL students' semi-spontaneous expository speech, and its perception as a sentence-finality signal. The corpus comprised all rising intonation units (IU) produced by 14 female and 9 male participants, classified by structural clues as syntactic continuation, listing, polar questions, or uptalk, to explore the relatedness of the phonetic properties to structural position and gender...
March 16, 2023: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36719795/transphonologization-of-onset-voicing-revisiting-northern-and-eastern-kmhmu
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James Kirby, Pittayawat Pittayaporn, Marc Brunelle
Phonation and vowel quality are often thought to play a vital role at the initial stage of tonogenesis. This paper investigates the production of voicing and tones in a tonal Northern Kmhmu' dialect spoken in Nan Province, Thailand, and a non-tonal Eastern Kmhmu' dialect spoken in Vientiane, Laos, from both acoustic and electroglottographic perspectives. Large and consistent VOT differences between voiced and voiceless stops are preserved in Eastern Kmhmu', but are not found in Northern Kmhmu', consistent with previous reports...
January 31, 2023: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37000667/books-available-for-review
#30
REVIEW
Oliver Niebuhr
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
December 16, 2022: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36420529/-the-oxford-handbook-of-language-prosody-edited-by-carlos-gussenhoven-and-aoju-chen-oxford-oxford-university-press-2020-lvi-892pp-%C3%A2-125-00-hardback-isbn-978-0-1988-3223-2-hbk
#31
REVIEW
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36420530/vowels-in-urban-and-rural-albanian-the-case-of-the-southern-gheg-dialect
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Josiane Riverin-Coutlée, Enkeleida Kapia, Conceição Cunha, Jonathan Harrington
Albanian comprises two main dialects, Gheg and Tosk, as well as a Tosk-based standard variety. The study was concerned with the extent to which the vocalic system of Southern Gheg, spoken in the capital city Tirana and surrounding rural area, has been shaped in urban versus rural contexts by extensive contact with Tosk and the standard. Through an apparent-time comparison across two groups of adults and first-grade children, one from Tirana and the other from the nearby village of Bërzhitë, we investigated three vocalic features of Southern Gheg: rounding of /a/, vowel lengthening and monophthongization, all of which were expected to be maintained more in the rural community than in the urban one, and also more by adults than by children...
November 22, 2022: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36395076/individual-differences-in-phonetic-imitation-and-their-role-in-sound-change
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anne-France Pinget
This paper explores the possibility that the spread of sound change within a community correlates with individual differences in imitation capacities. The devoicing of labiodental fricatives in Dutch serves as a case study of an ongoing sound change showing regional and individual variation. The imitation capacities of Dutch speakers born and raised in five regions of the Dutch language area were investigated in a forced imitation task (Study 2) and a spontaneous imitation task (Study 3), and compared to baseline productions (Study 1) of the variable undergoing sound change...
November 17, 2022: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36327446/the-interaction-between-predictability-and-pre-boundary-lengthening-on-syllable-duration-in-taiwan-southern-min
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sheng-Fu Wang
This study investigated how predictability and prosodic phrasing interact in accounting for the variability of syllable duration in Taiwan Southern Min. Speech data were extracted from 8 hours of spontaneous speech. Three predictability measurements were examined: bigram surprisal, bigram informativity, and lexical frequency. Results showed that higher informativity and surprisal led to longer syllables. As for the interaction with prosodic positions, there was a general weakening of predictability effects for syllables closer to the boundary, especially in the pre-boundary position, where pre-boundary lengthening was the strongest...
November 3, 2022: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36306469/glottalized-lateral-in-rikvani-andi-an-acoustic-study
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexander Shiryaev, Michael Daniel, George Moroz
Glottalized sonorants are a rare sound type that has been under scrutiny for a number of reasons of general relevance to the phonetic theory. It has been claimed that the timing of glottalization of glottalized sonorants may shift in accordance with the position in the syllable onset (pre-glottalization) or coda (post-glottalization), to provide a cue for its place of articulation; other studies argued against this claim. The paper investigates acoustic properties of the glottalized lateral in Rikvani Andi, a one-village dialect of Andi (East Caucasian)...
October 28, 2022: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36452976/carlos-gussenhoven-and-aoju-chen-eds-the-oxford-handbook-of-language-prosody
#36
REVIEW
Yao Wang, Yongtao Xie
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
October 26, 2022: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36073964/are-serbian-and-english-listeners-deaf-to-lexical-pitch-accents-in-serbian
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dušan Nikolić, Stephen Winters
The paper investigated possible "deafness" effects in the perception of lexical pitch accents by native and non-native listeners, that is, by Serbian and English listeners, respectively. The objective of the study was to explore which word-prosodic categories listeners used when they were required to contrast and recall sequences of lexical pitch accents. To that effect, Serbian and English listeners performed a Sequence Recall Task (SRT) in which they contrasted pairs of non-words with different Serbian lexical pitch accent types, and recalled the sequences of these non-words under different memory load conditions...
September 8, 2022: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35981718/the-role-of-f0-shape-and-phrasal-position-in-papuan-malay-and-american-english-word-identification
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Constantijn Kaland, Matthew K Gordon
The prosodic structure of under-researched languages in the Trade Malay language family is poorly understood. Although boundary marking has been uncontroversially shown as the major prosodic function in these languages, studies on the use of pitch accents to highlight important words in a phrase remain inconclusive. In addition, most knowledge of pitch accents is based on well-researched languages such as the ones from the Western-Germanic language family. This paper reports two word identification experiments comparing Papuan Malay with the pitch accent language American English, in order to investigate the extent to which the demarcating and highlighting function of prosody can be disentangled...
August 19, 2022: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35918784/makkan-arabic-does-not-have-post-focus-compression-a-production-and-perception-study
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Muhammad Swaileh Alzaidi
Post-focus compression (PFC), in which words following focus are compressed in F 0 and intensity, is recently found to be effective in encoding focus. Recent studies find that PFC is present in Egyptian, Hijazi and Lebanese Arabic, and hence they are classified as +PFC languages. However, there are languages from the same family language which differ mainly in terms of the presence and absence of PFC. The current study investigated the production and perception of prosodic focus marking in Makkan Arabic, an under-researched Arabic dialect...
August 3, 2022: Phonetica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35689305/post-focus-compression-in-brahvi-and-balochi
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nasir Abbas Syed, Abdul Waheed Shah, Anqi Xu, Yi Xu
Previous research has shown that post-focus compression (PFC) - the reduction of pitch range and intensity after a focused word in an utterance, is a robust means of marking focus, but it is present only in some languages. The presence of PFC appears to follow language family lines. The present study is a further exploration of the distribution of PFC by investigating Brahvi, a Dravidian language, and Balochi, an Indo-Iranian language. Balochi is predicted to show PFC given its presence in other Iranian languages...
June 13, 2022: Phonetica
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