{"title":"Exploring sound symbolism in the investigation of speech expressivity","authors":"S. Madureira, Z. Camargo","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0027/000147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0027/000147","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this paper is to examine specific uses of sound symbolism concerning segmental and prosodic properties. The typology developed by Hilton et al (2004) is taken as reference. The corpus of this work is a poem recorded by a professional actor. A research methodology comprising prosodic perceptual analysis, prosodic acoustic analysis and affective states evaluation tests is proposed. The results indicate the speaking strategies used by the actor have been found to make use of three types of sound symbolism (synesthesic, imitative and metalinguistic). Correlations among acoustic properties, perceived affective states and text meaning production demonstrate productive use of sound symbolism and corroborate the discussion on the direct links between sound and meaning.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"14 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":"126804246","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":"Observations on the prosodic characteristics of Finnish-speaking youngsters with Asperger syndrome","authors":"M. Lehtinen","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0024/000144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0024/000144","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents some preliminary results of a post doctoral research project directed towards the prosodic and nonverbal deficiencies of Frenchand Finnishspeaking youngsters with Asperger Syndrome. More precisely, the paper is focussed on the salient prosodic features that characterise the speech of the Finnishspeaking informants of the project. The term ‘prosody’ is conceived here in a large sense, encompassing also such paralinguistic features as breathiness, creak, nasalization and whisper (Couper-Kuhlen 2000). The data consists of audiovisual recordings of two neuropsychiatric group therapy sessions where two different groups of 11–13-year-old boys discuss with two therapists and with each other. Methodologically, the study is based on Conversation Analysis and, more precisely, on the interactional approach to the study of prosody.","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":"131432408","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":"Phonetic factors influencing /l/-rhoticisation in Greek","authors":"D. Müller","doi":"10.5282/UBM/EPUB.18061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5282/UBM/EPUB.18061","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates phonetic factors – vocalic/consonantal context, duration, stress - favouring rhotic perception of the lateral approximant in Greek. Nonsense words containing the lateral in different lengths in both intervocalic and internal coda position, alongside similar words containing a rhotic, were presented to Greek listeners for categorisation as /l/ or /r/. Results showed that laterals were perceived as rhotics if they matched the rhotic in duration. Rhotics, on the other hand, were only perceived as laterals if they were articulated as an approximant rather than as a tap.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"47 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":"131684436","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}
Zoltán Bánréti, E. Meszaros, I. Hoffmann, Zita Orley
{"title":"Recursion in language, theory-of-mind inference and arithmetic: aphasia and Alzheimer's disease","authors":"Zoltán Bánréti, E. Meszaros, I. Hoffmann, Zita Orley","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0005/000174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0005/000174","url":null,"abstract":"We found a variety of dissociations among the linguistic and non-linguistic operations tested. In the case of Hungarian speaking patients with a medium-serious AD, syntactic recursion is relatively unimpaired, as opposed to their limited ability to tackle theory-of-mind and arithmetical recursion. Conversely, we found limited syntactic recursion but normal theory-of-mind inferences and recursive arithmetical operations in Hungarian speaking agrammatic aphasics. We argue for a model that posits a module of recursive operations in the human mind that is shared by linguistic, theory-of-mind, and arithmetical performance.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"81 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":"116151409","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 and lexical priming of syntactic construction in young children","authors":"Meesook Kim","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0022/000191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0022/000191","url":null,"abstract":"Two experiments are reported to investigate the roles of perceptual priming and lexical priming in Korean children s production of passive sentences. Experiment 1 examined whether manipulations of focal attention could affect Korean children s linguistic choices regarding subject role assignment, by using so-called fish film (Tomlin, 1997). 5-year-olds and 6-year-olds were not able to produce passives even when a patient was perceptually primed by a flashing arrow. Experiment 2 examined lexical priming effects in children s production of passives. 5-year-olds and 6-yearolds were more likely to use passive sentences if a patient has been verbally primed by the experimenter. These results indicate that young children s production of passive voice is more likely to be affected by linguistic cues than perceptual salience.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"48 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120911825","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":"How context affects perception: judging distress and linguistic content in forensic audio recordings","authors":"Lisa Roberts, Peter French","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0039/000159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0039/000159","url":null,"abstract":"In order to assess the role of context on the perception of speech sounds, extracts of speech material from authentic forensic cases were played to two groups of listeners (experienced vs inexperienced forensic phoneticians) in two conditions (with and without sequential context). Listeners were asked to categorise each extract according to a four-way scale of perceptible distress and rate each extract according to a five-point scale of perceptible linguistic content. Findings show that extracts played without context are perceived as reflecting higher degrees of distress and lower levels of linguistic content. Experienced phoneticians performed more consistently as a group and were less prone to changing their responses across the two conditions.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"5 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":"121250193","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 patterns in child speech","authors":"Roksolana Mykhaylyk","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0025/000194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0025/000194","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an experimental study contributing to the issue of prosodysyntax-semantics interaction in child speech. The data from 12 3-4-year-old children acquiring Ukrainian have been analyzed in order to establish main prosodic patterns associated with different semantic types of SVO and SOV sentences. The results show that the children are mostly adult-like in the prosodic realization of post-verbal object pronouns, but often apply non-adult-like prosodic contours to the sentences with contextually-dependent object NPs.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"298 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":"122722284","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":"English communication skills for prospective English teachers in Japan","authors":"Yuichi Todaka","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0048/000168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0048/000168","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of this study are twofold: (1) to promote necessary English oral skills; and (2) to provide prospective English teachers with a necessary roadmap towards achieving competency in English oral communication skills. Prospective English teachers at 11 Japanese universities participated, and we tested our text materials in terms of the degree of motivation, and of the progress on their English oral communication skills. Based upon the obtained results, our text materials helped our participants improve their motivation towards English study and their English oral communication skills. Various modifications that have to be made to the text materials for our next project were also found, however.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"3 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":"116998161","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}
T. Chernigovskaya, K. Gor, G. Kataeva, A. Korotkov, Maxim Kireev, K. Memetova, S. Medvedev
{"title":"Processing Russian inflectional morphology: a PET study of verb generation","authors":"T. Chernigovskaya, K. Gor, G. Kataeva, A. Korotkov, Maxim Kireev, K. Memetova, S. Medvedev","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0014/000183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0014/000183","url":null,"abstract":"For many years, acquisition of verbal morphology has been an issue of much debate within linguistic theory, research on first and second language acquisition, mental grammar representation, and cognitive processing. The proponents of the Dual Mechanism account claim that regularly inflected forms are computed by a ruleprocessing system, while morphologically irregular forms are processed in associative memory. The opposite Single Mechanism account claims that both regular and irregular forms are processed in associative memory. In the present PET study significant rCBF increase in the anterior cingulate gyrus of the left hemisphere (24 BA) was shown for regular verb generation.This may support the rule-based (de)compositional account.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"35 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":"126106145","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":"Perception of \"tonal focus\" in Greek","authors":"Olga Nikolaenkova","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0031/000151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0031/000151","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper reports on the way tonal correlates of focus impact its identification in Greek simple declaratives. The material was based on 4 utterances with different focus placement. Manipulation of the F0 contour and duration of the original utterances resulted in a list of 18 utterances, repeated 10 times each, and presented randomly to each of 10 informants. The informants were asked to indicate what part of each utterance bore focus. The results showed that: (1) F0 is the most reliable parameter for focus perception, especially the rate of tonal rise/fall, (2) duration expansion is not sufficient for focus perception, and (3) combining F0 and duration affects successful focus identification.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"42 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":"115162355","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}