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A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English: With Implications for Featural Specification. 重新分析英语中的语音效应：对特征规范的影响。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1177/00238309221142526

Rebecca L Morley, Bridget J Smith

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The Temporal Dynamics of Stop Consonant Perception: Evidence from Context Effects. 停顿辅音感知的时间动态：语境效应的证据

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-12 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231153355

Wenli Liu, Xiaoguang Pan, Xiang Zhou

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How Different Types of Linguistic Information Impact Voice Perception: Evidence From the Language-Familiarity Effect. 不同类型的语言信息如何影响语音感知？语言熟悉效应的证据。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-01-21 DOI: 10.1177/00238309221143062

Keke Yu, Yacong Zhou, Linjun Zhang, Li Li, Ping Li, Ruiming Wang

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Phonetic and Phono-Lexical Accuracy of Non-Native Tone Production by English-L1 and Mandarin-L1 Speakers. 英语- l1和普通话- l1使用者非本族语声调产生的语音和语音词汇准确性。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-01-15 DOI: 10.1177/00238309221143719

Tim Joris Laméris, Katrina Kechun Li, Brechtje Post

{"title":"Phonetic and Phono-Lexical Accuracy of Non-Native Tone Production by English-L1 and Mandarin-L1 Speakers.","authors":"Tim Joris Laméris, Katrina Kechun Li, Brechtje Post","doi":"10.1177/00238309221143719","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309221143719","url":null,"abstract":"Lexical tones are known to be a challenging aspect of speech to acquire in a second language, but several factors are known to affect tone learning facility, such as L1 tonal status (whether a learner's L1 is tonal or not), tone type (the shape of the tones to be acquired), and individual extralinguistic factors (such as musicianship, pitch aptitude, and working memory). Crucially, most of our knowledge of the effect of these factors is based on evidence from perception. The production side of tone learning and the origins of individual variability in learning facility remain relatively understudied. To this end, this study investigated non-native tone production-both in terms of phonetic accuracy in a pseudoword imitation task and in terms of phono-lexical accuracy in a picture-naming task-by English-L1 and Mandarin-L1 speakers. Results show that L1 tonal status and tone type dynamically affected both imitation and picture-naming accuracy, as there were specific accuracy patterns for the English and Mandarin groups. Production accuracy was further facilitated by individual musical experience, working memory, and pitch aptitude. This study's findings add to the currently limited literature on how both language-specific and individual extralinguistic factors modulate non-native tone processing in the speaking modality.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"974-1006"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10666469/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9080196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Why Aren't All Cantonese Tones Equally Confusing to English Listeners? 为什么不是所有粤语音调都能让英语听众感到困惑？

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.1177/00238309221139789

William Choi, Ming Ming Chiu

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Differential Cue Weighting in Mandarin Sibilant Production. 普通话音节产生中的差异提示权重。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-07 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231152495

Ivy Hauser

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Articulatory Insights into the L2 Acquisition of English-/l/ Allophony. 英语/l/辅音在二语习得中的发音分析。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231200629

Laura Colantoni, Alexei Kochetov, Jeffrey Steele

{"title":"Articulatory Insights into the L2 Acquisition of English-/l/ Allophony.","authors":"Laura Colantoni, Alexei Kochetov, Jeffrey Steele","doi":"10.1177/00238309231200629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309231200629","url":null,"abstract":"In many English varieties, /l/ is produced differently in onsets and codas. Compared with \"light\" syllable-initial realizations, \"dark\" syllable-final variants involve reduced tongue tip-alveolar ridge contact and a raised/retracted tongue dorsum. We investigate whether native French and Spanish speakers whose L1 lacks such positionally conditioned variation can acquire English-/l/ allophony, testing the hypotheses that (1) the allophonic pattern will be acquired by both groups but (2) learners will differ from native speakers in their phonetic implementation, particularly in codas; and (3) French-speaking learners will outperform their Spanish-speaking counterparts. The production of syllable-initial and -final /l/ (singletons and clusters) in words read in isolation and a carrier sentence by 4 French- and 3 Spanish-speaking learners as well as three native English speakers was analyzed via electropalatography and acoustic analysis. While some learners produced distinct onset and coda variants and all learners had moved away to some extent from their L1 production, they differed from the native speakers in certain ways. Moreover, between- and within-group variability was observed including greater target-like anterior and posterior contact reduction in codas in the L1 French versus L1 Spanish group and generally higher F2 values in both learner groups compared with their native speaker peers. A comparison of the learners' L1 and L2 production revealed L1-based patterns of positional reduction of the tongue tip and dorsum gestures. We conclude by addressing the contributions of EPG to our understanding of L2 speech and highlight avenues for future research including the study of both linguistic and speaker variables.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309231200629"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138464260","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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Phonetic Cues in Auditory Identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian Language of Origin. 保加利亚语、捷克语、波兰语和俄语原语听觉识别中的语音线索。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/00238309221119098

Jacek Kudera, Irina Stenger, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow

{"title":"Phonetic Cues in Auditory Identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian Language of Origin.","authors":"Jacek Kudera, Irina Stenger, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow","doi":"10.1177/00238309221119098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309221119098","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents the results of an auditory language of origin identification experiment. Disyllabic and trisyllabic logatomes were recorded by speakers of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian, and presented to L1 speakers of the abovementioned Slavic languages. The goals of the test were to verify the ability of lay listeners to recognize the linguistic origin of speakers, based on spoken samples with limited segmental and suprasegmental information, and to correlate the signal features with the subjects' performance. It was found that position of word stress is not an important predictor in language recognition. However, inherent vowel characteristics such as duration and vowel space computed by the means of Pillai scores correlate with subjects' performance. Both the linguistic profile and the familiarity with closely related languages also appear to be relevant predictors of listeners' performance. Finally, the information-theoretic notion of surprisal applied on regular cross-linguistic sound correspondences was correlated with recognition scores; though, the correlations did not reach the threshold of statistical significance. We conclude that auditory identification of linguistic origin by lay persons, native speakers of closely related languages, is possible even when exposed to limited segmental information, which can serve as a cue in the identification of linguistic origin.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":"66 3","pages":"606-624"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9906136","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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The Relationship between Non-Native Perception and Phonological Patterning of Implosive Consonants. 非母语感知与内爆辅音语音模式的关系。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/00238309221132495

Madeleine Oakley, Hannah Sande

{"title":"The Relationship between Non-Native Perception and Phonological Patterning of Implosive Consonants.","authors":"Madeleine Oakley, Hannah Sande","doi":"10.1177/00238309221132495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309221132495","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses non-native perception data to examine the relationship between perceived phonetic similarity of segments and their phonological patterning. Segments that are phonetically similar to one another are anticipated to pattern together phonologically, and segments that share articulatory or acoustic properties are also expected to be perceived as similar. What is not yet clear is whether segments that pattern together phonologically are perceived as similar. This study addresses this question by examining how L1 English listeners and L1 Guébie listeners perceive non-native implosive consonants compared with plosives and sonorants. English does not have contrastive implosives, whereas Guébie has a bilabial implosive. The bilabial implosive phonologically patterns with sonorants in Guébie, to the exclusion of obstruents. Two perception experiments show English listeners make more perceptual categorization errors between implosives and voiced plosives than Guébie listeners do, but both listener groups are more likely to classify implosives as similar to voiced plosives than sonorants. The results also show that Guébie listeners are better at categorizing non-native implosive consonants (i.e., alveolar implosives) than English listeners, showing that listeners are able to extend features or gestures from their L1 to non-native implosive consonants. The results of these experiments suggest a cross-linguistic perceptual similarity hierarchy of implosives compared with other segments that are not affected by L1 phonological patterning.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":"66 3","pages":"786-815"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9915485","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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Relative Difficulty in the Acquisition of the Phonetic Parameters of Obstruent Coda Voicing: Evidence from Mandarin-Speaking Learners of French. 法语普通话学习者习得辅音语音参数的相对困难。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/00238309221114143

Matthew Patience, Jeffrey Steele

{"title":"Relative Difficulty in the Acquisition of the Phonetic Parameters of Obstruent Coda Voicing: Evidence from Mandarin-Speaking Learners of French.","authors":"Matthew Patience, Jeffrey Steele","doi":"10.1177/00238309221114143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309221114143","url":null,"abstract":"A recurring finding of research on the L2 acquisition of coda obstruent voicing is that, in terms of the phonetic parameters that serve to realize the voicing contrast, learners are overwhelmingly more accurate with duration than the voicing of the obstruent itself. The current work expands our understanding of this asymmetry in two ways. First, as previous studies have focused almost exclusively on learners of English, we investigate here whether L2 learners' superior production of duration is also found among learners of other target languages via a study of Mandarin-speaking learners' production of French stop and fricative codas. Results from 18 Mandarin-speaking learners of French, primarily of beginner and intermediate proficiency who completed a sentence reading task, parallel those of previous studies with greater accuracy observed for vowel duration than the laryngeal voicing of the obstruent. Second, we explore potential sources of this asymmetry, in particular, the roles of L1 experience as well as of universal factors, namely, the relative perceptual salience of duration versus voicing, and the articulatory difficulty of voicing obstruents.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":"66 3","pages":"625-651"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/f7/4d/10.1177_00238309221114143.PMC10394971.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9920316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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