{"title":"The effect of cochlear implants on phonological acquisition","authors":"Evaggelia Lazarou, Marianna Hatzopoulou","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0023/000143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0023/000143","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the present study was to compare the phonological errors that occur in the speech of two 12-year-old Greek children with profound hearing loss. The first child used a cochlear implant (CI) and the second one used hearing aids (HA). The children’s phonological development has been assessed using the Phonetic and Phonological Development Test (PPDT), (Levandi et al. 1995) . In alignment with previous studies, the child with HA made more phonological errors than the child with CI, even though some unexpected findings were observed regarding the phonological processes used by both children.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"8 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":"125234384","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":"Models or strategies? on the perception of ambiguous words","authors":"Anzhelika Dubasova","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0016/000185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0016/000185","url":null,"abstract":"Models of lexical ambiguity resolution differ mainly with respect to the role played by context in lexical access. In my paper I focus on two opposing views: those of autonomous access models (non-context-oriented) and selective access models (context-oriented). I analyse two types of situations of: a. the activation of a wrong meaning of an ambiguous word unpredictable from both models and b. humour based on puns. Proceeding from my analysis I propose to include (those leading to errors) and consider existing models as strategies, consequently, treating unsuccessful lexical ambiguity resolution as the influence factors or as a selection of the wrong strategy.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"16 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":"125385911","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":"Tonal and syntactic correlates of focus perception in Greek and Russian","authors":"Olga Nikolaenkova","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0026/000195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0026/000195","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper reports on the way word order and tonal slope influence focus perception in Russian and Greek declaratives. Perception experiment was carried out in order to identify the impact falling tone slope and word order change have on focus identification. The speech material included manipulated stimuli with 5 and 3 different falling tone slopes for Russian and Greek respectively and involved 6 different word orders. The results of the perception test indicate that: (1) slope manipulation is a reliable focus indicator; (2) word order change is not sufficient for focus identification; (3) no major cross-language contrasts were observed.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"80 4 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":"123809937","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":"Structural priming and the phrasal/clausal distinction: the case of concealed questions","authors":"Gözde Bahadir, M. Polinsky","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0003/000172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0003/000172","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates whether structural priming is sensitive to the phrasal vs. clausal nature of the constructions it tests. To that end, we examine NPs that receive a question-like interpretation when embedded under certain predicates. These NPs are known as “concealed question (CQ) NPs ”. We first report the results of a pilot study that establishes co-occurrence patterns of the target embedding predicates. We then present two structural priming studies which test CQ NPs with “overt embedded questions ”: “embedded wh-questions ” and “embedded declaratives ”. Both written sentence completion tasks demonstrate structural priming, which turns out to be sensitive to the phrase-clause distinction. Results:","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"17 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":"125407577","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}
A. Botinis, Aikaterini Bakakou-Orphanou, Anthi Chaida
{"title":"Prosody and quantifier semantics in Greek","authors":"A. Botinis, Aikaterini Bakakou-Orphanou, Anthi Chaida","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0009/000178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0009/000178","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates prosody and semantic specification in Greek with reference to affirmative and negative sentence quantifier functions. A production and a perception experiment were carried out, the results of which indicate: (1) The negative interpretation of the w with focus on the quantifier, whereas the positive one with focus on the preceding verb. (2) The word in focus has an enlarged tonal range associated with the stressed syllable, while the material out of focus is tonally compressed. (3) The stressed syllable of the word in focus, especially the vowel, is significantly longer. (4) The affirmative and negative functions of the quantifier had high identification rates, indicating a one-to-one production and perception relation.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"2 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":"116133779","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":"Lexical stress in modern Halh Mongolian","authors":"Yumei Sang","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0029/000198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0029/000198","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to study lexical stress in Mongolian and its place of realization. Words and short declarative sentences are analyzed. We observe certain regularity in the rising of F0 on the most prominent syllables. We also show that duration is used as a correlate of stress in the sense that long vowels are privileged to receive stress: the stress falls on the syllable which contains a long vowel whatever its place within a word. In the case there is no long vowel, the stress falls on the second syllable. (Stress design here lexical stress).","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"12 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":"122367759","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":"Typology and spatial cognition in English, French and Greek: evidence from eye-tracking","authors":"E. Soroli","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0031/000200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0031/000200","url":null,"abstract":"Languages encode space in strikingly different ways (Talmy, 2000): Satelliteframed languages (e.g., English) lexicalize Manner in verb roots and express Path in satellites, whereas Verb-framed languages (e.g., French) lexicalize Path in verb roots, leaving Manner implicit or peripheral; other languages present parallel systems in which both Verband Satellite-framed structures are available (e.g., Greek). The present study investigates how speakers of three typologically different languages, English, French and Greek, performed a production task and allocated their visual attention while exploring and describing visual scenes involving motion -movement fixations differed substantially as a function of language-specific factors, arguing that typological constraints have a clear impact not only on linguistic but also on non-linguistic behaviours.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"124 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":"128134572","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":"Vowel-colour associations in non-synesthetes: a study with Spanish and Arabic participants","authors":"Pilar Mompeán Guillamón","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0019/000188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0019/000188","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper aims at contributing to the field of sound symbolism and, more specifically, to the association between sounds and colours as established by nonsynesthetes. A study based on a forced-choice task performed by Spanish and Arabic speakers is presented. The study asks participants to listen to primary cardinal vowels and choose from a range of colours the one considered most suitable for the sound. The data gathered reinforce previous results that non-synesthetic participants are able to significantly associate vowel sounds and colours at a better than chance degree. However, results seem to go against the general idea that the associations are cross-linguistic, although the phenomenon itself seems to be.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"31 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":"114748211","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":"Participle agreement and clitic omission","authors":"Vicenç Torrens","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0034/000203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0034/000203","url":null,"abstract":"Object clitic omission has been considered to be a general feature of child grammar. In this paper we show that while omission is high in young Catalan speaking children, it is very low in Spanish-speaking children. This difference can be attributed to the availability of participle agreement when objects cliticise. I present a research where we test, through a grammaticality judgement task, the sensitivity of Catalan and Spanish children to participle agreement and find a statistically significant difference between the two languages.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"158 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":"123262779","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":"Perceptual level of intonation in whispered voice","authors":"Géraldine Vercherand","doi":"10.36505/exling-2012/04/0037/000206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2012/04/0037/000206","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I propose to analyze the prosodic realization of two modalities (declarative and interrogative) through perception study of whispered voice in French. I present results of two modality identification tasks. Results of identification test based on natural stimuli show a good identification rate of the modality. The values of the duration of final syllable seem to be the main acoustic cue that is relevant in the identification of modality. I present also the results of modality identification task based on re-synthesized stimuli allowing to control the role played by duration parameter. Results of this second experiment show modality identification depends on perceptual level of the duration.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"52 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":"121203235","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}