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{"title":"inda mbu, nambu or ine ti pu? acquiring complex structures in Cypriot Greek","authors":"Natalia Pavlou","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0036/000156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0036/000156","url":null,"abstract":"The current study investigates the hypothesis that certain Cypriot Greek (CG) whphrases show similar paths of acquisition with cleft sentences based on syntactic complexity. That is, wh-phrases of the inda (mbu)-type in CG can be decomposed in an abstract way as clefts, giving ine ti pu ‘what is it that’. Targeting a comparison between these two structures, wh-questions with inda (mbu) along with subjectand object-clefts were included in a production elicitation experiment given to children aged 2;7-6;4. The preliminary results raise several issues ranging from syntactic complexities and movement difficulties in the two structures to sociolinguistic factors and implications for the possible diglossic situation in the Greek Cypriot community.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133408457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pretonic schwa reduction in dutch: frequency effects interact with phonotactics","authors":"M. Sloos","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0030/000199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0030/000199","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Word frequency plays a role in reduction processes: high-frequency words undergo more reduction than low-frequency words. Pretonic schwa reduction in Dutch is susceptible to frequency effects in this way, but the well-formedness of the cluster that remains after schwa deletion also plays a role. An experiment shows that cluster well-formedness and frequency effects in fact interact with each other. This suggests that phonological models should incorporate both lexical as well a grammatical information. Key words: Frequency effects, phonotactics, pretonic schwa, reduction. Introduction It has been observed for Dutch, that schwa deletion is more likely to be applied, when the resulting consonant cluster consists of an obstruent and subsequent liquid (Booij 1995). Thus all other things being equal, gelijk >\u0002$\u0005%\u0007–O\u0007-\u0007 \u0002$\u0005%\u0007–QL\u0007S@\u0003µPHDQ¶, because in Dutch \u0002$O is a well-formed cluster but \u0002$n is not. However, pretonic vowels in Dutch are also known to be more reduced in high-frequency (HF) words than in low-frequency (LF) words (van Oostendorp 1999). This raises the question of whether frequency effects interact with the well-formedness of the cluster that remains after deletion. Is it the case that frequency effects are only found in potential well-formed onset clusters? Or is it rather the case that schwa reduction in consonant-liquid clusters is dependent on word frequency? How does frequency interact with phonotactics exactly? To investigate the effect of cluster well-formedness (CWF) and frequency, a word reading task was carried out. HF and LF words were extracted from Corpus Gesproken Nederlands (Spoken Dutch Corpus) available on www.tst.inl.nl and from the CELEX database on www.celex.mpi. Each HF word with WKH\u0003FRQWH[W\u0003&\u0005%&- was matched with an LF word following a number of criteria: the consonants preceding the schwa and following the schwa were identical, the number of syllables was identical, the number of phonemes was matched as much as possible and stress placement was identical. The corpus frequency counts may deviate from the frequency of the individual lexicon of the subjects. It is well-known in psycholinguistics that word frequency is related to naming latency, in the sense that HF words have shorter latencies than LF words (Oldfield & Wingfield 1965, Jescheniak &","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123784235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Text punctuation and prosody in Greek","authors":"Anthi Chaida, Elina Nirgianaki, Eleni Panaretou","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0007/000127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0007/000127","url":null,"abstract":"A production experiment was carried out, in order to investigate text punctuation, including standard as well as ungrammatical (communicative) punctuation marks, and prosody relations. It is shown that punctuation is directly related to the duration of pauses, leading to the following structure: question mark>exclamation mark>full stop> colon>comma> ellipsis. Pitch resetting occurs in all cases, except for commas and ellipses, and gender differences seem to be significant. Ungrammatical punctuation is more prominently marked by both temporal and tonal means.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122019216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phonology and phonetics of Greek palatalisation","authors":"A. Botinis, Anthi Chaida, Evgenia Magoula","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0010/000179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0010/000179","url":null,"abstract":"The present investigation examines palatal production as well as the relation of phonology and phonetics in Greek. In accordance with one production experiment, the results indicate: (1) palatal productions that surface from one underlying segment are significantly longer than palatal productions that surface from two underlying segments, (2) palatal productions are voice assimilated with the preceding stop and fricative consonant production and, (3), the locus frequencies of male palatal productions are in the area of 1800-2000 Hz.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128233261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating languages functions in a trilingual setting","authors":"Ioannis Galantomos, G. Andreou, Fotini Anastassiou","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0014/000134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0014/000134","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this research was to investigate the language functions of trilinguals that live in Greece. This study consisted of personal interviews conducted at a State Evening School in Volos in January 2010 and the participants were between 19 and 24 years old. They were all male and they came from immigrant families of Albanian origin. The study aimed to locate the instances that each one of the languages L1 Albanian, L2 Greek, L3 English is used and to record the reasons that make the students use each one of their languages.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124467550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dialect and generational differences in vowel space areas","authors":"R. Fox, E. Jacewicz","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0012/000132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0012/000132","url":null,"abstract":"We address methodological issues in calculating the size of the working vowel space area. Although corner vowels are most commonly used in determining its size, we show that this approach may severely underestimate the actual working space. The vowel spaces determined using the large vowels set provided insight into subtle differences between dialects and among age groups. Three approaches were tested which were based on the number of vowels used, formant measurement location and the way boundary lines were drawn.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127543799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human-computer interaction systems and elderly users: linguistic specifications for prosodic modelling","authors":"C. Alexandris","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0002/000122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0002/000122","url":null,"abstract":"The present linguistic specifications and language-independent parameters for prosodic modelling aim to provide a general framework for facilitating both the construction and the evaluation processes of the Dialog Interface of HumanComputer Interaction Systems in Service for the Elderly and the related prosodic modelling. The proposed specifications target to the features of Comprehensibility and User-friendliness in the spoken output and the overall safety, efficiency and reliability of the System’s performance.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129377381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tarascan dialectal and generational differences around aspirated stops","authors":"F. J. García","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0017/000137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0017/000137","url":null,"abstract":"The Tarascan or phurépecha language contrasts aspirated stops from non-aspirated word initially, but this contrast was hardly heard in Hiwatzio, a lake dialect (Friedrich 1971:177). We measured the length of the aspirated feature following stops and vowels /i a u/'s formants F1 and F2 so as to identify differences among subjects. The results show that adult men speakers from a mountain dialect make an aspiration shorter than men from a lake dialect. The opposite pattern applies for women belong to the same dialects. Regarding generational differences, a young man from a lake dialect does a shorter aspiration than the older men do and a young girl’s F1 and F2 of /i, a, u/ tend to be higher than older women.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129921277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prosodic evidences to sentential negation in Brazilian portuguese","authors":"L. D. Sousa","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0045/000165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0045/000165","url":null,"abstract":"Brazilian Portuguese (BP) permits at least three kinds of sentential negation Neg1 (Não VP), Neg2 (Não VP Não) and Neg3 (VP Não). The theme of this paper is the nature of this variation. We will try to demonstrate that at least in some contexts Neg2 exhibit properties associated with presupposed denial, reflecting fundamental differences in relation to canonical negation (Neg1). Some contexts show the incompatibility of Neg2 and Neg1. We believe this incompatibility can be explained by presupposition and scope. The aim of this paper is try to show the relation between the negation structures in BP and the pragmatic content.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131382721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Time selected multiple algorithms for reliable f0 tracking in difficult recording conditions","authors":"Philippe Martin","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0023/000192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0023/000192","url":null,"abstract":"Prosodic data mining in large spontaneous speech corpora often requires acoustic analysis of recordings done in poor conditions. The most detrimental pertain to the absence first harmonic in voiced segments and the presence of echo. In such cases it is very difficult to separate inter vocalic consonantal voicing from echo, or recover Fo from remaining harmonics. To address these problems, 10 different pitch tracking algorithms were implemented in the software program WinPitch, in order to allow an expert user, guided by an underlying displayed narrow band spectrogram, to select manually the appropriate process to deliver a satisfactory Fo curve for a selected time segment.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130739799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}