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The Effects of Perceived Ethnicity and Prosodic Accuracy on Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness in L2 Mandarin Chinese. 民族知觉和韵律准确性对二语普通话可理解性、可理解性和重音性的影响。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251361010

Robert Squizzero

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The Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent in South Kyungsang Korean: The Relevance of Accent Shape. 庆尚南道朝鲜语词汇音高重音的感知：重音形状的相关性。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251368294

Hyunjung Joo, Mariapaola D'Imperio

{"title":"The Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent in South Kyungsang Korean: The Relevance of Accent Shape.","authors":"Hyunjung Joo, Mariapaola D'Imperio","doi":"10.1177/00238309251368294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251368294","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we tested whether the perception of pitch contours within a lexical pitch accent can be better understood through tonal targets in the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model or as an entire tonal configuration identification. Specifically, a categorization experiment was conducted to see how South Kyungsang Korean (SKK) listeners perceive their high (H) and rising (LH) lexical pitch accents. Auditory stimuli were manipulated depending on H peak alignment (earlier vs. later), rise shape (domed or \"convex\" vs. scooped or \"concave\"), or segmental duration (shorter vs. longer). Results showed that F0 rise shape and segmental duration influenced SKK listeners' categorization, while no effect of peak alignment was observed. Specifically, they responded to more scooped shapes as an LH, while more domed shapes were mainly assigned to H responses. Moreover, shorter duration induced a H categorization, while longer duration was related to an LH. Results suggest that SKK listeners use both F0 shape and segmental duration as important cues for tonal contrast, though F0 shape shows stronger categorical effect than duration. Thus, F0 shape information is important to determine phonological representation of lexical pitch accents, as opposed to strict tonal alignment defined in Autosegmental-Metrical theory.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251368294"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145034606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers. 西班牙语传统使用者元音入侵的发展。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251315068

Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura

{"title":"Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers.","authors":"Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura","doi":"10.1177/00238309251315068","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251315068","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the sound system of heritage speakers (henceforth, HSs) as they shift dominance from their heritage language to their majority language. Specifically, it analyzes the production of intrusive vowels in Spanish consonant clusters across the lifespan of HSs, focusing on tautosyllabic clusters (i.e., /Cɾ/) and heterosyllabic clusters (i.e., /ɾ.C/). Semi-spontaneous speech was elicited from three age groups of Spanish HSs-younger children, older children, and adults-for whom American English is the majority language, as well as from three age-matched groups of non-heritage Spanish speakers raised in Mexico. The presence and duration of intrusive vowels were examined, with the latter calculated as a ratio of intrusive vowel duration to tap duration. Overall, the results indicate that all speaker groups more frequently produce consonant clusters with intrusive vowels than without. However, Spanish HSs produced fewer and shorter intrusive vowels compared with their non-heritage counterparts. In addition, heritage and non-heritage speakers exhibited a lower rate of intrusive vowel production in the 5-to-8 -year-old group compared with adults. Despite this, the absence of an interaction between age group and speaker type suggests a parallel pattern of change in intrusive vowel production across all ages. Voicing emerged as the most consistent phonetic factor, predicting a higher rate of intrusive vowels with a longer duration relative to the tap.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"633-654"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Preference for Distinct Variants in Learning Sound Correspondences During Dialect Acquisition. 方言习得过程中不同变体对语音对应学习的偏好。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241308171

Xiaoyu Yu, Youngah Do

{"title":"Preference for Distinct Variants in Learning Sound Correspondences During Dialect Acquisition.","authors":"Xiaoyu Yu, Youngah Do","doi":"10.1177/00238309241308171","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241308171","url":null,"abstract":"Sound correspondences (SCs) have been found to be learnable phonological patterns in second dialect acquisition. Cross-linguistically, SCs consist of similar as well as distinct variants. However, in the study of SC learning, the effect of the similarity between the corresponding variants remains understudied. The salience hypothesis proposes that distinct dialect variants are more salient and learnable, while the learning bias hypothesis in phonological learning predicts that SC patterns with similar variants are preferred by learners. We conducted an artificial language learning experiment to test how sound similarity affects SC learning. Specifically, the degrees of similarity between variants were evaluated from multidimensional metrics, including phonetic and phonological measures, which are cross-validated with typological evidence. While there was no effect of variant similarity in learning simple one-to-one SCs, a preference for the most distinct dialect variant was found in the learning of SCs exhibiting more complex mapping structures (i.e., two-to-one and one-to-two). Our results confirm a preference for distinct variants in SC learning, although this effect relies on two conditions. First, the preference for distinction emerges only in the presence of complex mapping structures. Second, this preference requires an activation threshold, in that the distance of the SC must be sufficiently large to trigger the effect.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"534-565"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142985381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dimensionality Reduction in Lingual Articulation of Vowels: Evidence From Lax Vowels in Northern Anglo-English. 元音发音的维数降低：来自北方盎格鲁英语中元音松弛的证据。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251320581

Patrycja Strycharczuk, Sam Kirkham, Emily Gorman, Takayuki Nagamine

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Perceptual Salience of Tones, Vowels, and Consonants in Mandarin Speech Errors. 普通话语音错误中声调、元音和辅音的感知突出。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241302334

Zifeng Liu, Ioana Chitoran, Giuseppina Turco

{"title":"Perceptual Salience of Tones, Vowels, and Consonants in Mandarin Speech Errors.","authors":"Zifeng Liu, Ioana Chitoran, Giuseppina Turco","doi":"10.1177/00238309241302334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309241302334","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examines the perceptual salience of tonal speech errors compared with segmental errors (consonant and vowel). Tonal errors are observed less often than segmental errors. We thus hypothesize that tone errors are more easily ignored during transcription tasks because tones may have lower perceptual salience relative to segments. We test this hypothesis in Mandarin, via a number reconstruction task. Sixty-nine Mandarin native listeners heard sequences of numbers in which one number was altered by substituting its vowel, consonant, or tone. They were asked to identify which number that was. We found that Mandarin listeners identified the original number most accurately when consonants were substituted. They were the least accurate when vowels were substituted. For tone substitution, the accuracy was lower than for consonant substitution, but not significantly different from vowel substitution. Reaction times to identify a number with tone substitution were comparable to those for other types of substitutions. The results show that, contrary to our hypothesis, tone errors are not perceptually less salient than segmental errors. Specifically, tone errors are as salient as vowel errors and more salient than consonant errors, suggesting a similar phonological status shared by tone, vowel, and consonant in constraining word selection.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":"68 3","pages":"495-511"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144977855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Politeness and Prosody: The Effect of Power, Distance, and Imposition on Pitch Contours in Spanish. 礼貌与韵律：权力、距离和强加对西班牙语音高轮廓的影响。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-06 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241307891

Bruno Staszkiewicz

{"title":"Politeness and Prosody: The Effect of Power, Distance, and Imposition on Pitch Contours in Spanish.","authors":"Bruno Staszkiewicz","doi":"10.1177/00238309241307891","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241307891","url":null,"abstract":"Research in the last few decades has examined the intersection between phonetics and politeness in multiple languages. While most of the studies have analyzed the role of politeness on suprasegmental features (i.e., pitch or duration), few have considered the key contextual variables of power, distance, and imposition. This study investigates the systematic effects of power, distance, and imposition on the final intonational contours of polar questions in Central Peninsular Spanish native speakers. A total of 36 native speakers from Madrid completed a contextualized reading-sentence task in which they read aloud paragraph-length contextualizing situations and the target polar questions. The situations were balanced for two levels of power (high/low), distance (high/low), and imposition (high/low). The results from the contextualized reading-sentence task showed that the low-rising final intonational contour (L*H%) was the most employed intonational contour in every context, while the remaining contours were H*H%, H*L%, L*L%. The results confirm that L*H% is the prevailing final intonational contour in Spanish polar questions while also shedding light on the variability of other intonational configurations. In addition, the study determines whether final nuclear contours are impacted by power, distance, and impositions. The findings are discussed within the framework of Politeness Theory and the work on the phonetics and pragmatics interface.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"512-533"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Prosodic Cues for Broad, Narrow, and Corrective Focus in Persian. 波斯语中宽焦点、窄焦点和矫正焦点的韵律线索。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241311924

Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, Simon Roessig, Lena Pagel, Doris Mücke

{"title":"Prosodic Cues for Broad, Narrow, and Corrective Focus in Persian.","authors":"Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, Simon Roessig, Lena Pagel, Doris Mücke","doi":"10.1177/00238309241311924","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241311924","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have demonstrated that focus significantly alters sentential prosody in Persian. However, research on the phonetic realization of non-corrective narrow focus is scarce compared to that on broad and corrective focus. This paper presents a systematic production study investigating whether Persian speakers distinguish between three focus structures on target words that bear a pitch accent, that is, broad, narrow, and corrective focus. In a multidimensional phonetic analysis, we investigated the parameters of intensity, duration, and F0. Taking a local perspective, results show that the duration of the target word is a robust cue for focus marking in both syllables of the word, exhibiting a three-step pattern (corrective > narrow > broad). In the first syllable, intensity is a reliable cue to distinguish broad focus from the other two focus types, with higher intensities in broad focus. In the accented syllable, a different two-step pattern is observed, with narrow and corrective focus showing larger F0 spans than broad focus. Taking a global perspective that considers the parts of the utterance before and after the target word, we find a lowering of F0 and decreased intensity for narrow and corrective focus in the pre-target region. In the post-target region, we find strong evidence for differences in mean F0 and intensity with lower F0 in corrective focus than in broad and narrow focus, while the intensity is lower in narrow and corrective focus than in broad focus. Our analysis deepens our understanding of Persian prosody.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"566-591"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143076443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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F0 and Voice Quality of Coarticulated Mandarin Tones. F0与普通话连音音质。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251315081

Yaqian Huang

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How Aging and Age-Related Hearing Loss Affect the Recognition of Emotion in Whispered Speech. 衰老和与年龄相关的听力损失如何影响耳语中情绪的识别。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251315835

Yingyang Wang, Min Xu, Jing Shao

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