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Integrating phonological and phonetic aspects of Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi in auditory sentence disambiguation Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Wei Lai,Aini Li
This study investigates whether Mandarin listeners integrate a prosody-covarying phonological variable, the Chinese Tone 3 sandhi (T3S), into auditory sentence disambiguation. The T3S process changes the first of two consecutive low tones (T3) into a rising tone. It applies obligatorily within a foot and optionally across feet. When T3S is optional, it is more likely to apply to Tone 3 syllables across
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How relative frequency and prosodic structure affect the acoustic duration of English derivatives Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Simon David Stein,Ingo Plag
Morphological segmentability, i.e., the degree to which complex words can be decomposed into their morphological constituents, has been considered an important factor in research on morphological processing and is expected to affect acoustic duration (e.g., Hay, 2001, 2003). One way of operationalizing segmentability is through the relative frequency of a complex word to its base word. However, relative
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Measuring sign complexity: Comparing a model-driven and an error-driven approach Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Justine Mertz,Chiara Annucci,Valentina Aristodemo,Beatrice Giustolisi,Doriane Gras,Giuseppina Turco,Carlo Geraci,Caterina Donati
The study of articulatory complexity has proven to yield useful insights into the phonological mechanisms of spoken languages. In sign languages, this type of knowledge is scarcely documented. The current study compares an error-driven measure and a model-driven measure of complexity for signs in French Sign Language (LSF). The former measure is based on error rates of handshape, location, orientation
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Techniques and methods for investigating speech articulation: The centrality of instruments Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Lorenzo Spreafico,Alessandro Vietti
The editorial reflects on the role of instruments in phonetic sciences in the light of the themes addressed by the contributions in the special collection.
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Juncture prosody across languages: Similar production but dissimilar perception Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Martin Ho Kwan Ip,Anne Cutler
How do speakers of languages with different intonation systems produce and perceive prosodic junctures in sentences with identical structural ambiguity? Native speakers of English and of Mandarin produced potentially ambiguous sentences with a prosodic juncture either earlier in the utterance (e.g., “He gave her # dog biscuits,” “他给她#狗饼干 ”), or later (e.g., “He gave her dog # biscuits,” “他给她狗 #饼干 ”)
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Expanding the gestural model of lexical tone: Evidence from two dialects of Serbian Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Robin Karlin
There is mounting evidence suggesting that temporal information is necessary in representations of lexical tone. Gestural models of tone provide a natural entry point to linking abstract association with physical realization, but remain underdeveloped. We present the results of two acoustic production studies on two dialects of Serbian, a lexical pitch accent language. In the Belgrade dialect, pitch
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Phonetic indices of syllabic organization in German stop-lateral clusters Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Stavroula Sotiropoulou,Adamantios Gafos
Using articulatory data from five German speakers, we study how segmental sequences under different syllabic organizations respond to perturbations of phonetic parameters in the segments that compose them. Target words contained stop-lateral sequences /bl, gl, kl, pl/ in word-initial and cross-word contexts and were embedded in carrier phrases with different prosodic boundaries, i.e., no phrase boundary
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The perception of word stress cues in Papuan Malay: A typological perspective and experimental investigation Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Constantijn Kaland
Analyses of word prosody have shown that in some Indonesian languages listeners do not make use of word stress cues. The outcomes have contributed to the conclusion that these languages do not have word stress. The current study revisits this conclusion and investigates to what extent speakers of Papuan Malay, a language of Eastern Indonesia, use suprasegmental stress cues to recognize words. Acoustically
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Power mediates the processing of gender during sibilant categorization Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Ian Christopher Calloway
Prior studies suggest that listeners are more likely to categorize a sibilant ranging acoustically from [∫] to [s] as /s/ if provided auditory or visual information about the speaker that suggests male gender. Social cognition can also be affected by experimentally induced differences in power. A powerful individual’s impression of another tends to show greater consistency with the other person’s broad
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On covariation between nasal consonant weakening and anticipatory vowel nasalization: Evidence from a Caribbean and a non-Caribbean dialect of Spanish Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Silvina Bongiovanni
Dialects of Spanish can be (broadly) categorized as ‘preferring’ a coronal or a velar realization for the word-final nasal consonant ([n]- and [ŋ] -dialects, respectively). Scholars have observed that the phonetic and phonological details of the pre-nasal vowel among [ŋ]-dialects differ from those of [n]-dialects. The prevailing view in Spanish phonology is that backing and nasalization are part of
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Gridlines approach for dynamic analysis in speech ultrasound data: A multimodal app Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Simon Gonzalez
Having access to efficient technologies is essential for the accurate description and analysis of articulatory speech patterns. In the area of tongue ultrasound studies, the visualization/analysis processes generally require a solid knowledge of programming languages as well as a deep understanding of articulatory phenomena. This demands the use of a variety of programs for an efficient use of the
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Contrast implementation affects phonetic variability: A case study of Hindi and English stops Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Ivy Hauser
There is a large body of work in phonetics and phonology demonstrating sources and structure of acoustic variability, showing that variability in speech production is not random. This paper examines the question of how variability itself varies across languages and speakers, arguing that differences in extent of variability are also systematic. A classic hypothesis from Dispersion Theory (Lindblom
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Asymmetries in Perceptual Adjustments to Non-Canonical Pronunciations Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Molly Babel,Khia A. Johnson,Christina Sen
This paper examines two plausible mechanisms supporting sound category adaptation: directional shifts towards the novel pronunciation or a general category relaxation of criteria. Focusing on asymmetries in adaptation to the voicing patterns of English coronal fricatives, we suggest that typology or synchronic experience affect adaptation. A corpus study of coronal fricative substitution patterns confirmed
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The representation of variable tone sandhi patterns in Shanghai Wu Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Hanbo Yan,Yu-Fu Chien,Jie Zhang
Disyllabic verb-noun (V-N) items in Shanghai Wu have variable surface tone patterns: They can undergo either a rightward extension tone sandhi, which extends the lexical tone of the first syllable over the entire word, or tonal reduction on the first syllable. The current study investigates how the phonological properties of these alternation processes as well as variation influence how Shanghai speakers
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Speaking clearly improves speech segmentation by statistical learning under optimal listening conditions Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-23 Zhe-chen Guo,Rajka Smiljanic
This study investigated the effect of speaking style on speech segmentation by statistical learning under optimal and adverse listening conditions. Similar to the intelligibility and memory benefits found in previous studies, enhanced acoustic-phonetic cues of the listener-oriented clear speech could improve speech segmentation by statistical learning compared to conversational speech. Yet, it could
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A multi-method approach to correlate identification in acoustic data: The case of Media Lengua Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-16 Sky Onosson,Jesse Stewart
This study of Media Lengua examines production differences between mid and high vowels in order to identify the major correlates that distinguish these vowel types. The Media Lengua vowel system is unusual in that it incorporates lexical items originating in Spanish’s five-vowel system into a three-vowel system inherited from Quichua, resulting in high degrees of overlap between the front versus back
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The impact of animacy and speech rhythm on the word order of conjuncts in German preschoolers and adults Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Isabelle Franz,Gerrit Kentner,Frank Domahs
In this study, we investigated the impact of two constraints on the linear order of constituents in German preschool children’s and adults’ speech production: a rhythmic (*LAPSE, militating against sequences of unstressed syllables) and a semantic one (ANIM, requiring animate referents to be named before inanimate ones). Participants were asked to produce coordinated bare noun phrases in response to
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Perceptual vowel contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Tünde Szalay,Titia Benders,Felicity Cox,Michael Proctor
In Australian English rimes, coarticulation between coda /l/ and its preceding vowel has the potential to attenuate cues that contribute to phonological vowel contrast. Therefore, vowel-/l/ coarticulation may increase ambiguity between prelateral vowels. We used a vowel identification task to test the effect of vowel-/l/ coarticulation on vowel disambiguation in perception. Listeners categorized vowels
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Stiffness and articulatory overlap in Moroccan Arabic consonant clusters Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Kevin D. Roon,Philip Hoole,Chakir Zeroual,Shihao Du,Adamantios I. Gafos
It has been claimed that patterns of regressive place assimilation in consonant clusters are attributable to the ‘inherent velocities’ of the primary oral articulators involved. The present study used articulatory data from Moroccan Arabic to evaluate whether there were reliable differences in peak velocity or measured stiffness based on primary oral articulator. Evidence for such differences was limited
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A review of data collection practices using electromagnetic articulography Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Teja Rebernik,Jidde Jacobi,Roel Jonkers,Aude Noiray,Martijn Wieling
This paper reviews data collection practices in electromagnetic articulography (EMA) studies, with a focus on sensor placement. It consists of three parts: in the first part, we introduce electromagnetic articulography as a method. In the second part, we focus on existing data collection practices. Our overview is based on a literature review of 905 publications from a large variety of journals and
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Production of prosodic cues in coordinate name sequences addressing varying interlocutors Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Clara Huttenlauch,Carola De Beer,Sandra Hanne,Isabell Wartenburger
Prosodic boundaries can be used to disambiguate the syntactic structure of coordinated name sequences (coordinates). To answer the question whether disambiguating prosody is produced in a situationally dependent or independent manner and to contribute to our understanding of the nature of the prosody-syntax link, we systematically explored variability in the prosody of boundary productions of coordinates
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Correction: Foxes, deer, and hedgehogs: The recall of focus alternatives in Vietnamese Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Annika Tjuka,Huong Thi Thu Nguyen,Katharina Spalek
This article details a correction to the article: Tjuka, A., Nguyen, H. T. T., & Spalek, K. (2020). Foxes, deer, and hedgehogs: The recall of focus alternatives in Vietnamese. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 11(1), 16. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.253 .
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The voice of experience: Causal inference in phonotactic adaptation Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Thomas Denby,Matthew Goldrick
Successfully grappling with widespread linguistic variation requires listeners to adapt to systematic variation in the environment while discarding incidental variation, based on listeners’ prior experience. We examine the role of prior experience in phonotactic learning. Talkers who differ in their language background are more likely to vary in their phonotactic grammars than talkers who share a language
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The link between syllabic nasals and glottal stops in American English Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Lisa Davidson,Shmico Orosco,Sheng-Fu Wang
Examples of syllabic nasals in English abound in phonological research (e.g., Hammond, 1999; Harris, 1994; Wells, 1995), but there is little explicit discussion about the surrounding consonant environments that condition syllabic nasals. This study examines the production of potential word-final syllabic nasals in American English following preceding consonants including oral stops, glottal stops,
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Korean laryngeal contrast revisited: An electroglottographic study on denasalized and oral stops Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jiayin Gao,Jihyeon Yun,Takayuki Arai
In several Korean dialects, domain-initial nasal onsets undergo denasalization as a recent sound change. Nasal stops may be realized as prevoiced or even devoiced stops. This makes it necessary to examine the interplay of phonetic properties of the denasalized and the three oral stop series as a whole, in synchrony and diachrony. What are their concomitant and conflicting properties? Our study provides
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Vowel harmony and positional variation in Kyrgyz Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Adam G. McCollum
While it is well known that the phonetic realization of a segment may differ by position, it is unclear how positional variation interacts with vowel harmony, the imperative that vowels be identical along some phonological dimension. Pearce (2008, 2012) contends that phonological harmony blocks phonetic reduction, suggesting that phonology dictates phonetic realization for this class of assimilatory
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Physical and phonological causes of coda /t/ glottalization in the mainstream American English of central Ohio Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Scott Seyfarth,Marc Garellek
In American English, a glottal stop is sometimes pronounced in place of an expected syllable coda /t/, and audible glottalization is attested before both /t/ and /p/ in coda position. Following previous work, we claim that the voiceless stops in American English involve a glottal constriction gesture to produce voicelessness in coda position, which contrasts with the glottal spreading gesture used
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Sampling the progression of domain-initial denasalization in Seoul Korean Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Kayeon Yoo,Francis Nolan
Word-initial nasals in Korean are known to exhibit prosody-sensitive denasalization. The literature on the subject is still scarce and even the basic description of the process is debated. This study tested the speculation that inconsistencies in the literature may be explained if certain features of denasalization have developed relatively recently as part of an ongoing sound change. Based on apparent-time
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Nasal coda neutralization in Shanghai Mandarin: Articulatory and perceptual evidence Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Matthew Faytak,Suyuan Liu,Megha Sundara
Shanghai Mandarin is reported to neutralize /n/ and /ŋ/ after non-low vowels, a change also reported for other varieties of Chinese. However, the place of articulation of the resulting nasal is unclear. We used production and perception experiments to determine the contexts which condition neutralization and the place of articulation of the resulting nasal. Analysis of ultrasound data using a dimensionality
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The perceptual filtering of predictable coarticulation in exemplar memory Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Jonathan Manker
Exemplar models of word representations have remained ambivalent or impressionistic as to precisely what veridical auditory information is stored in individual word exemplars. Earlier models ( Johnson, 1997b ) suggest all perceived information was stored in memory, whereas more recent proposals ( Pierrehumbert, 2002 ; Goldinger, 2007 ) suggest some degree of abstraction occurs in storing particular
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Prosody, clause typing, and wh-in-situ: Evidence from Mandarin Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Stella Gryllia,Jenny S. Doetjes,Yang Yang,Lisa L. Cheng
This paper examines the use of prosody for marking upcoming linguistic material in speech production and for anticipating them in speech perception. More specifically, it examines whether in the absence of any overt morphosyntactic cues in the beginning of an utterance, speakers use prosodic means to mark the clause type (declarative or wh-question) and whether listeners use these prosodic cues to
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Rejecting false alternatives in Chinese and English: The interaction of prosody, clefting, and default focus position Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Mengzhu Yan,Sasha Calhoun
In a discourse, a listener must keep track of information which is presupposed, or established, with the speaker, and that which is new in the common ground. Focus marking helps listeners identify the new information, and reject false alternatives to it; while presupposed information is not expected to be falsified. It is not yet clear, however, what cues listeners use to identify the focus, beyond
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A perceptual pathway for voicing-conditioned vowel duration Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Chelsea Sanker
When codas and vowels are cross-spliced, vowels originally produced with voiced codas are perceived as longer than vowels of the same duration produced with voiceless codas. The spliced coda has the opposite effect: Vowels presented with voiced codas are perceived as shorter. To explain what characteristics make vowels produced with voiced codas sound longer than vowels produced with voiceless codas
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Foxes, deer, and hedgehogs: The recall of focus alternatives in Vietnamese Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Annika Tjuka,Huong Thi Thu Nguyen,Katharina Spalek
In tonal languages, the role of intonation in information-structuring has yet to be fully investigated. Intuitively, one would expect intonation to play only a small role in expressing communicative functions. However, experimental studies with Vietnamese native speakers show that intonation contours vary across different contexts and are used to mark certain types of information, for example, focus
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Transphonologization of voicing in Chru: Studies in production and perception Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Marc Brunelle,Tạ Thành Tấn,James Kirby,Đinh Lư Giang
Chru, a Chamic language of south-central Vietnam, has been described as combining contrastive obstruent voicing with incipient registral properties (Fuller, 1977). A production study reveals that obstruent voicing has already become optional and that the voicing contrast has been transphonologized into a register contrast based primarily on vowel height (F1). An identification study shows that perception
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Automatic Motion Tracking of Lips using Digital Video and OpenFace 2.0 Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Peter A. Krause,Christopher A. Kay,Alan H. Kawamoto
Because the lips are external organs, they can be easily observed by means that are non-invasive, including simple video recording. The current paper introduces a free-of-charge, highly portable, automatic solution for extracting oral posture from digital video, based on an existing facetracking utility. We describe how this solution might benefit various lines of laboratory phonology research, including
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Using Rapid Prosody Transcription to probe little-known prosodic systems: The case of Papuan Malay Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Sonja Riesberg,Janina Kalbertodt,Stefan Baumann,Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
This paper shows how the Rapid Prosody Transcription method (RPT, cp. Cole & Shattuck-Hufnagel, 2016) can be utilized when investigating the prosodic systems of a little-described language. We report the results of a set of perception experiments on the prosody of Papuan Malay, which support the claim made in earlier (production) studies that Malayic varieties appear to lack stress (i.e., lexical stress
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Vocalic activation width decreases across childhood: Evidence from carryover coarticulation Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 Elina Rubertus,Aude Noiray
This study is the first to use kinematic data to assess lingual carryover coarticulation in children. We investigated whether the developmental decrease previously attested in anticipatory coarticulation, as well as the relation between coarticulatory degree and the consonantal context, also characterize carryover coarticulation. Sixty-two children and 13 adults, all native speakers of German, were
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Predictability modulates pronunciation variants through speech planning effects: A case study on coronal stop realizations Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron,Meghan Clayards,Michael Wagner
Predictability has been shown to be associated with many dimensions of variation in speech, including durational variation and variable omission of segments. However, the mechanism or mechanisms that underlie these effects are still unclear. This paper presents data on a new aspect of predictability in speech, namely how it affects allophonic variation. We examine two coronal stop allophones in English
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Phonetic effects of onset complexity on the English syllable Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Anna Mai
Although onsets do not arbitrate stress placement in English categorically, results from Kelly (2004) and Ryan (2014) suggest that English stress assignment is nevertheless sensitive to onset complexity. Phonetic work on languages in which onsets participate in categorical weight criteria shows that onsets contribute to stress assignment through their phonetic impact on the nucleus, primarily through
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Intonational variation and incrementality in listener judgments of ethnicity Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Nicole Holliday,Dan Villarreal
The current study examines how listeners make gradient and variable ethnolinguistic judgments in an experimental context where the speaker’s identity is well-known. It features an open-guise experiment (Soukup, 2013) that assessed whether sociolinguistic judgments are subject to incrementality, with judgments increasing in magnitude as variable stimuli demonstrate more extreme differences. In particular
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Analyzing speech in both time and space: Generalized additive mixed models can uncover systematic patterns of variation in vocal tract shape in real-time MRI Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Christopher Carignan,Phil Hoole,Esther Kunay,Marianne Pouplier,Arun Joseph,Dirk Voit,Jens Frahm,Jonathan Harrington
We present a method of using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) to analyze midsagittal vocal tract data obtained from real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rt-MRI) video of speech production. Applied to rt-MRI data, GAMMs allow for observation of factor effects on vocal tract shape throughout two key dimensions: time (vocal tract change over the temporal course of a speech segment) and space
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Locating de-lateralization in the pathway of sound changes affecting coda /l/ Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Patrycja Strycharczuk,Donald Derrick,Jason Shaw
‘Vocalization’ is a label commonly used to describe an ongoing change in progress affecting coda /l/ in multiple accents of English. The label is directly linked to the loss of consonantal constriction observed in this process, but it also implicitly signals a specific type of change affecting manner of articulation from consonant to vowel, which involves loss of tongue lateralization, the defining
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Individual empathy levels affect gradual intonation-meaning mapping: The case of biased questions in Salerno Italian Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Riccardo Orrico,Mariapaola D’Imperio
The paper investigates the interplay between intonational cues and individual variability in the perceptual assessment of speakers’ epistemic bias in Salerno Italian yes-no questions. We present a perception experiment in which we manipulated pitch span within the nuclear configuration (both nuclear accent and boundary tone) to predict degree of perceived positive bias (i.e., expected positive answer)
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From categories to gradience: Auto-coding sociophonetic variation with random forests Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Dan Villarreal,Lynn Clark,Jennifer Hay,Kevin Watson
The time-consuming nature of coding sociophonetic variables that are typically treated as categorical represents an impediment to addressing research questions around these variables that require large volumes of data. In this paper, we apply a machine learning method, random forest classification (Breiman, 2001), to automate coding (categorical prediction) of two English sociophonetic variables traditionally
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The imitation of coarticulatory timing patterns in consonant clusters for phonotactically familiar and unfamiliar sequences Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Marianne Pouplier,Tomas O. Lentz,Ioana Chitoran,Philip Hoole
This paper investigates to what extent speakers adapt to unfamiliar consonant cluster timing patterns. We exploit naturally occurring consonant overlap differences between German and Georgian speakers’ productions to probe the constraints that language-specific patterns put on the flexibility of cluster articulation. We recorded articulography data from Georgian and German speakers imitating CCV clusters
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Recording and analyzing kinematic data in children and adults with SOLLAR: Sonographic & Optical Linguo-Labial Articulation Recording system Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Aude Noiray,Jan Ries,Mark Tiede,Elina Rubertus,Catherine Laporte,Lucie Ménard
Understanding the development of spoken language in young children has become increasingly important for advancing basic theories of language acquisition and for clinical practice. However, such a goal requires refined measurements of speech articulation (e.g., from the tongue), which are difficult to obtain from young children. In recent years though, technological advances have allowed developmental
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Prevocalic t-glottaling across word boundaries in Midland American English Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Kamil Kaźmierski
Rates of t-glottaling across word boundaries in both preconsonantal and prevocalic contexts have recently been claimed to be positively correlated with the frequency of occurrence of a given word in preconsonantal contexts (Eddington & Channer, 2010). Words typically followed by consonants have been argued to have their final /t/s glottaled more often than words less frequently followed by consonants
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The ΔF method of vocal tract length normalization for vowels Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Keith Johnson
Given the acoustic consequences of physiological differences between talkers, there is a practical need for effective and theoretically motivated procedures of vowel normalization to facilitate comparison of speech produced by people who differ by dialect or language. In addition, there is a question whether listeners might utilize a normalization procedure during speech perception. This paper reports
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Implicit effects of regional cues on the interpretation of intonation by Corsican French listeners Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-12-04 Cristel Portes,James S. German
It is now well documented for different varieties of English that the speech production and perception systems rapidly adapt to contextual social cues. This adaptation is sensitive not only to speaker social identity but also to implicit social cues, suggesting that the underlying mechanism is automatic rather than controlled. While it has recently been shown that the interpretation of intonation depends
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Epenthetic vowel production of unfamiliar medial consonant clusters by Japanese speakers Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-11-25 Wakayo Mattingley,Kathleen Currie Hall,Elizabeth Hume
Existing nativized loanword studies have traditionally suggested that there are three epenthetic vowels in Japanese, which reflect both phonotactic restrictions and articulatory properties of certain consonant-vowel sequences in the language. Recent findings, however, call this tri-partite epenthesis pattern into question: First, several studies suggest that this epenthesis pattern is not true in the
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The phonetics and phonology of lenition: A Campidanese Sardinian case study Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-09-26 Jonah Katz,Gianmarco Pitzanti
This paper gives a detailed description of the consonant system of Campidanese Sardinian and makes methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of lenition. The data are drawn from a corpus of field recordings, including roughly 400 utterances produced by 15 speakers from the Trexenta and Western Campidanese areas. Campidanese has a complex lenition system that interacts with length, voicing
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Limitations of difference-in-difference for measuring convergence Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-09-11 Uriel Cohen Priva,Chelsea Sanker
Linguistic convergence is the phenomenon in which interlocutors’ speech characteristics become more similar to each other’s. One of the methods frequently used to measure convergence is the difference-in-difference (DID) approach, comparing change in absolute distance between a subject and an interlocutor or model talker. We show that this approach is not a reliable measure of convergence when the
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Inductive learning of locality relations in segmental phonology Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-07-31 Kevin McMullin,Gunnar Ólafur Hansson
This paper reports on a series of artificial grammar learning experiments focused on locality relations in patterns of long-distance consonant agreement (harmony) and disagreement (dissimilation). Participants in experimental conditions were exposed to dependencies affecting stem-suffix pairs of liquids at either a short-range (transvocalic, CVCV L V- L V) or medium-range (beyond-transvocalic, CV L
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Sources of variability in phonetic perception: The joint influence of listener and talker characteristics on perception of the Korean stop contrast Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-07-16 Jessamyn Schertz,Yoonjung Kang,Sungwoo Han
Where there is dialectal variability in production of a sound contrast, listeners from the two dialects may show parallel differences in perception. At the same time, perception is not static and can be influenced by other factors, including listeners’ experience with, and expectations about, different talkers. This work examines perception of the Korean three-way stop phonation contrast by listeners
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The role of native phonology in spontaneous imitation: Evidence from Seoul Korean Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-06-14 Harim Kwon
This study investigates the role of phonology in spontaneous imitation in Seoul Korean speakers’ imitation of aspirated stops by comparing the primary and non-primary cues. Seoul Korean aspirated stops are differentiated from stops of other phonation types by at least two distinct acoustic properties, stop VOT and f0 of the post-stop vowel, with the latter being the primary cue. In the imitation experiment
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Variation in children’s vowel production: Effects of language exposure and lexical frequency Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-05-22 Helena Levy,Adriana Hanulíková
According to usage-based models of phonology, the more frequently a word is used and perceived in accented pronunciation variants, the more exemplars of accented tokens are stored and then used for subsequent productions of this word. This may lead to greater production variability in speakers with more variable input than in speakers with less variable input (cf. Pierrehumbert, 2001). This contrasts
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Can kiwis and koalas as cultural primes induce perceptual bias in Australian English speaking listeners? Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-04-09 Michael Walker,Anita Szakay,Felicity Cox
The presence of culturally significant objects has been shown to induce biases in speech perception consistent with features of the dialect relevant to the object. Questions remain about the transferability of this effect to different dialect contexts, and the efficacy of the task in inducing the effect. This paper details an Australian-context experiment modelled on Hay and Drager’s (2010) New Zealand-context
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Inter-consonantal intervals in Tripolitanian Libyan Arabic: Accounting for variable epenthesis Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-03-05 Leendert Plug,Abdurraouf Shitaw,Barry Heselwood
This paper reports on an acoustic investigation of inter-consonantal intervals in plosive sequences in Tripolitanian Libyan Arabic (TLA). TLA permits a wide range of two, three, and four-consonant strings within and across word boundaries. Previous descriptive work has suggested that TLA is characterized by widespread, partly optional vowel epenthesis throughout these sequences. We conducted a production
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Ki(ng) in the north: Effects of duration, boundary, and pause on post-nasal [ɡ]-presence Laboratory Phonology (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2019-02-07 George Bailey
This paper highlights a hitherto unreported change in progress among northern speakers of British English, with increasing post-nasal [ɡ]-presence in words like sing or wrong pre-pausally. The factors that condition this innovation are unclear due to collinearity between various boundary phenomena. The right edge of phrasal prosodic categories may be associated with boundary tones, final lengthening