Language and Speech最新文献_第2页

The Kinematics of Composite Stories: A Motion-Capture Study of Manual Telling Sequences With Varying Degrees of Constructed Action in Finnish Sign Language Narratives. 复合故事的运动学：芬兰手语叙事中不同程度构造动作的手动叙述序列的动作捕捉研究。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261471834

Sébastien Vandenitte, Anna Puupponen, Doris Hernández, Benjamin Anible, Tommi Jantunen

引用次数: 0

Effect of Visual Cueing and Referent Position on Syntactic Choices Varies With Language Flexibility and Language Status as L1/L2: Evidence From L1 Hindi and L2 English Sentence Production. 视觉提示和所指位置对句法选择的影响随语言灵活性和语言地位的不同而不同：来自母语印地语和二语英语句子生成的证据

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-03 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261477696

Swati Kushwaha, Niharika Singh

{"title":"Effect of Visual Cueing and Referent Position on Syntactic Choices Varies With Language Flexibility and Language Status as L1/L2: Evidence From L1 Hindi and L2 English Sentence Production.","authors":"Swati Kushwaha, Niharika Singh","doi":"10.1177/00238309261477696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261477696","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies on sentence production have shown that the accessibility of a referent in the speaker's mind influences the syntactic structure selected during utterance planning. The present study investigated how the effect of referent accessibility on structural choice during sentence production is influenced by language constraints, such as free vs. fixed word order, and by language status as L1 or L2. Hindi, a flexible word-order language with rich case-marking, allows constituent reordering without changing grammatical roles, whereas English, a fixed word-order language, requires a passive construction to place patient referent in the sentence initial position. In an event-description task, referent accessibility was manipulated through visual cueing (agent-cued vs. patient-cued) and referent position (agent-left vs. patient-left), while Hindi-English bilinguals produced sentences in Hindi (L1) and English (L2). In Hindi, visual cueing of the patient resulted in object-initial sentences through scrambling, whereas in English, no significant effect of visual cueing on structural choice was observed. In contrast, referent position exerted a robust influence on sentence structure in both languages. Left-positioned patients elicited more object-initial sentences in Hindi and more passive voice constructions in English. Eye-movement patterns reflected both independent and interactive effects of visual cueing and referent position in the two languages. These findings suggest that the influence of referent accessibility on structural choices is constrained by language flexibility and by the L1/L2 status of language in bilingual speakers.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261477696"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148889241","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}

引用次数: 0

Unveiling the Relationship Between L2 Utterance Fluency and Perceived Fluency in Monologic and Dialogic Speaking. 揭示二语话语流畅性与单语和对话语感知流畅性的关系。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251352105

Jianmin Gao, Peijian Paul Sun

{"title":"Unveiling the Relationship Between L2 Utterance Fluency and Perceived Fluency in Monologic and Dialogic Speaking.","authors":"Jianmin Gao, Peijian Paul Sun","doi":"10.1177/00238309251352105","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251352105","url":null,"abstract":"The study explored the relationship between L2 utterance fluency and perceived fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking. A total of 136 Chinese university English learners with diverse L2 proficiency levels and three experienced raters participated in the study. The study employed a mixed-methods approach integrating quantitative (regression analysis) and qualitative (stimulated recalls) analyses. In the monologic task, all utterance fluency dimensions (speed, breakdown, and repair fluency measures) significantly predicted perceived fluency ratings, except for filled pause rate and false start rate. Breakdown fluency measures, particularly silent pause measures, had the most substantial impact on perceived fluency ratings. In the dialogic task, breakdown fluency emerged as the sole significant predictor for perceived fluency scores, overshadowing the predictive impact of speed and repair fluency measures. The temporal measure of turn-taking did not significantly affect perceived fluency scores. Stimulated recalls were generally consistent with the quantitative results and revealed additional factors-content quality, pronunciation, and comprehensibility-that influenced fluency perceptions. The study highlighted the contextual effect on the relationship between utterance fluency and perceived fluency, suggesting that L2 speaking proficiency rating rubrics should be adjusted to account for differences between monologic and dialogic speaking.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"623-650"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144838532","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}

引用次数: 0

Biases for Vowel Harmony Over Disharmony in Phoneme Monitoring. 音素监测中元音和谐大于不和谐的偏差。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251378475

Sara Finley

引用次数: 0

The Role of Prosody in Expressing Subjective and Objective Causality in English. 韵律在表达英语主客观因果关系中的作用。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251369482

Na Hu, Aoju Chen, Hugo Quené, Ted J M Sanders

引用次数: 0

The Role of Gender in the Social Evaluation of Korean Short Tongue Pronunciation. 性别在韩语短舌发音社会评价中的作用。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251388973

Jeffrey J Holliday, Eun Jong Kong

{"title":"The Role of Gender in the Social Evaluation of Korean Short Tongue Pronunciation.","authors":"Jeffrey J Holliday, Eun Jong Kong","doi":"10.1177/00238309251388973","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251388973","url":null,"abstract":"Short tongue pronunciation (STP) refers to an enregistered set of pronunciation variants in Korean that is popularly thought to result from underdeveloped speech articulation, having a physically shorter tongue, or intentionally imitating such a pronunciation. Because these explanations can be tied to children's speech, there is a potential role of gender in mediating the social evaluation of STP. To investigate this, we carried out a between-subjects (n = 474) survey on beliefs and attitudes toward STP produced by adult men and women. The results confirmed that STP is a familiar concept to Korean speakers, primarily referring to the stopping, affrication, fronting, and tensification of obstruents, resembling certain child-like speech patterns. While STP was generally perceived negatively, the gender of both the listener and the imagined talker influenced its evaluation. Stopping and affrication were more frequently associated with female talkers, and male listeners perceived female STP, but not male STP, as cute in certain sociopragmatic contexts. In contrast, fronting, which was more frequently associated with male talkers, was regarded as an innate speech deficit and consistently evaluated negatively, regardless of talker gender. These findings highlight the complex interplay of sociophonetic perception and gendered expectations in Korean.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"871-890"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145702909","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}

引用次数: 0

Cantonese Tone Perception by Punjabi Speakers of Cantonese: Evidence and Implications for the Perceptual Assimilation Model of Second Language Speech Learning. 旁遮普粤语使用者的粤语声调感知：第二语言言语学习知觉同化模型的证据与启示。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251384983

William Choi, Doris Yu, Kin Ho Chan, Veronica Ka Wai Lai

引用次数: 0

Apparent Talker Variability and Speaking Style Similarity Can Enhance Comprehension of Novel L2-Accented Talkers. 说话人的明显变异性和说话风格的相似性可以增强对l2口音新说话人的理解。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251390505

Nicholas B Aoki, Georgia Zellou

{"title":"Apparent Talker Variability and Speaking Style Similarity Can Enhance Comprehension of Novel L2-Accented Talkers.","authors":"Nicholas B Aoki, Georgia Zellou","doi":"10.1177/00238309251390505","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251390505","url":null,"abstract":"Certain studies report facilitatory effects of multiple-talker exposure on cross-talker generalization of L2-accented speech (often defined as greater comprehension of novel talkers). However, a confound exists in prior work: do multiple-talker exposure benefits stem from the greater number of talkers (numerosity) or greater phonological variability (heterogeneity)? This study examined how apparent talker variability and speaking style affect L2-accent adaptation, while keeping phonological variation as constant as possible across exposure conditions. L1-English participants transcribed sentences in noise for a single Mandarin-accented English talker in an exposure phase and a novel Mandarin-accented English speaker in a test phase (a control condition received no exposure). Although all exposure stimuli came from one speaker, half of the listeners who received exposure were led to believe that multiple talkers were present by shifting the F0 and formants of a subset of sentences. We find: (a) when the test talker produces casual speech, all critical conditions with exposure enhance generalization (i.e., greater comprehension of the test talker relative to control); (b) when the test talker produces hard-of-hearing-directed speech, there is no difference in transcription accuracy between the control and critical conditions; and (c) when the test talker produces casual speech, generalization is greatest when listeners are exposed to multiple apparent talkers, but only given speaking style similarity between exposure and test (i.e., when the exposure phase also presents casual speech). This work lends credence to numerosity accounts-given a minimal change in phonological variability, the illusion of multiple-talker exposure can facilitate cross-talker generalization of L2-accented speech.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"946-976"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13494121/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145764569","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}

引用次数: 0

Disfluencies in Public and Private Speech. 公开和私下讲话的不流畅。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251380518

Darinka Verdonik, Peter Rupnik, Nikola Ljubešić

{"title":"Disfluencies in Public and Private Speech.","authors":"Darinka Verdonik, Peter Rupnik, Nikola Ljubešić","doi":"10.1177/00238309251380518","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251380518","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates how speakers adapt their use of disfluencies in public versus private speech settings. Existing studies suggest systematic differences in disfluency rates, depending on who we are communicating with, how interactive the communication is, how difficult the topic is, whether the interaction is broadcast or not, and whether the speech is pre-scripted or not. We aim to improve this understanding through analysis in the Slovenian language, using data from the Training Corpus of Spoken Slovenian ROG-Artur. We investigate whether quantitative differences in the use of disfluency exist between private and public speech, and aim to explain these differences by investigating the relationship between disfluency functions and the physical, social, cognitive, and other factors influencing communication behavior. Our results revealed significant differences in disfluency patterns: disfluencies, in general, are more frequent in private speech, whereas filled pauses, unrepaired pronunciations and blocks, are more common in public speech. We group disfluency functions into two general categories. In contextual analysis, we interpret that speakers reduce disfluencies in public speech due to its high relevance, formal expectations, partial pre-scripting, time constraints and advanced speaker skills, while the higher frequency of filled pauses, unrepaired pronunciations and blocks in public speech reflect the impact of longer dialog turns, time constraints and emotional stress. The findings of this study should be interpreted with caution, given the interpretative nature of qualitative analysis and the potential confounding effect of the involvement of different speakers in the public and private speech samples.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"778-804"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13494130/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145490873","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}

引用次数: 0

Perceptual Style-Shifting Across Singing and Speech: Music Activates Pop Song English for NZ Listeners. 在歌唱和演讲中感知风格的转变：音乐激活了新西兰听众的流行歌曲英语。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251353527

Andy Gibson, Jennifer Hay

{"title":"Perceptual Style-Shifting Across Singing and Speech: Music Activates Pop Song English for NZ Listeners.","authors":"Andy Gibson, Jennifer Hay","doi":"10.1177/00238309251353527","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251353527","url":null,"abstract":"American singing accents are prevalent in popular music throughout the English-speaking world. Singing with an American-influenced phonological style is a supralocal norm, referred to here as Pop Song English (PSE). This article presents two perception experiments that explore New Zealand (NZ) listeners' speech processing in musical and non-musical contexts. An analysis of the Phonetics of Popular Song corpus provides the foundation for the first experiment, revealing that sung dress and spoken trap have similar values for F1 in NZ. Experiment 1 then examines the categorization of these phonemes for words that fall on a continuum between bed and bad. In Experiment 2, a lexical decision task, NZ listeners hear words and nonwords produced by a New Zealand and an American speaker. In both experiments, results show that listeners are influenced by the presence of music, undergoing a perceptual style-shift. In Experiment 1, their perceptual phoneme boundary shifts to a more open position in the Music condition, and in Experiment 2, they exhibit a facilitation in reaction time to the US voice in the musical compared with the non-musical conditions. PSE is thus not only the norm for singing in NZ, it is also a norm for listening to song, represented in the minds of the general music-listening public. This finding extends our understanding of how speech perception depends on context. Speech and song are two highly distinct and perceptually contrastive contexts of language use, and listeners employ knowledge of how linguistic variation maps onto these contexts to resolve ambiguities in the speech signal.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"651-683"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13494131/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144977839","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}

引用次数: 0