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Cross-Linguistic Association Between Phonological Awareness and Connected Speech Perception Skills of Chinese EFL Young Learners. 中国青年英语学习者语音意识与关联言语知觉技能的跨语言关联

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251338748

Huichao Bi, Rong Yan, Samad Zare

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Second Dialect Acquisition by North Korean Refugee Speakers: Acquiring Seoul Korean Stops. 朝鲜难民的第二次方言习得：获得首尔韩语停顿。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251334102

Jungah Lee, Kaori Idemaru, Charlotte Vaughn

{"title":"Second Dialect Acquisition by North Korean Refugee Speakers: Acquiring Seoul Korean Stops.","authors":"Jungah Lee, Kaori Idemaru, Charlotte Vaughn","doi":"10.1177/00238309251334102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251334102","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined Korean three-way stop contrasts produced by North Korean (NK) immigrant speakers now living in South Korea, from the perspective of second dialect acquisition (SDA). Their production was compared with that of South Korean (SK) speakers. SK speakers and NK refugee speakers (N = 22 each) completed three tasks designed to elicit careful and conversational speech: reading aloud lists of one-syllable words and short phrases and participating in a sociolinguistic interview. The potential acoustic cues voice onset time (VOT), F0, and H1-H2 were measured and analyzed for 14,478 stops. Results indicated that in conversational speech (interview), SK speakers neutralized VOT between lenis and aspirated and used F0 robustly to differentiate the two categories, while distinguishing the long VOT for lenis and aspirated from the short VOT for fortis stops. In careful speech (reading one-syllable words), SK speakers differentiated all three categories by VOT. In contrast, NK speakers distinguished all three categories by VOT in all tasks, except for neutralizing the contrast for fortis and lenis in phrase reading. Furthermore, F0 was not used as robustly by NK as by SK speakers. We also examined the effects of age of arrival (AoA) and length of residence (LoR) on NK speakers' SDA. Our results indicated that the longer the NK refugees lived in SK, the more they could produce more SK-like stops. The results suggest that NK stop contrasts are likely distinguished by VOT, and these refugee speakers are in the process of acquiring SK stop patterns.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251334102"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144182715","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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Systematicity Over the Course of Early Development: An Analysis of Phonological Networks. 早期发展过程中的系统性：语音网络的分析。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251331595

Catherine E Laing

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A Model of Attitudinal Reasons for Neologism Use. 新词使用的态度原因模型。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251336780

Sabrina Link, Hans-Jörg Schmid, Devin G Ray

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Acoustic Cues in the Production and Perception of Cantonese Sarcasm. 粤语反讽产生与感知的声学线索。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251333766

Chen Lan, Peggy Mok

{"title":"Acoustic Cues in the Production and Perception of Cantonese Sarcasm.","authors":"Chen Lan, Peggy Mok","doi":"10.1177/00238309251333766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251333766","url":null,"abstract":"Sarcasm has been associated with several acoustic cues, but exploration of such cues in Cantonese has been limited. The present study revisited the production and perception of sarcasm in Cantonese, investigating how prosodic features and voice quality measures signal sarcastic speech and how well they can be recognized. Eighteen native Hong Kong Cantonese speakers produced colloquial sentences with three attitudes: sarcasm, neutrality, and sincerity. Five prosodic parameters and three voice quality parameters were analyzed and compared between attitudes, genders, and individual speakers. In addition, 42 native listeners rated the degree of sarcasm and sincerity of the target utterances. Average rating scores were compared between attitudes. Results show that Cantonese sarcasm is characterized by a slower speech rate, lower mean F0, narrower F0 range, lower mean amplitude, greater amplitude range, higher harmonic-to-noise ratio (HNR), lower jitter, and lower shimmer than sincere speech. Speakers utilized different combinations of acoustic cues to express sarcastic feeling. Listeners were able to distinguish sarcasm from sincerity according to the acoustic cues alone in the absence of verbal context. The more acoustic cues were utilized in a sarcastic utterance, the easier it would be for the listeners to understand the implied sarcastic meaning. Moreover, the insertion of an intensifier \"zan55hai22 (really)\" enhanced the sarcastic intonation, increasing listeners' accuracy at recognizing the speaker's sarcastic intention. The present study contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between prosody and sarcastic speech by using an improved method and providing evidence of production and perception in native Cantonese speakers.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251333766"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144144395","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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Production and Perception Errors From Speech Error Corpora Reflect Macro- and Meso-Level Structure of the Phonological Language Network. 语音错误语料库中的产生错误和感知错误反映了语音语言网络的宏观和中观结构。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251330878

Cynthia S Q Siew, Jonas Fine W Z Tan

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Bilingual Acquisition of Morphology: Norwegian and Russian Influence on Children's Sentence Repetition in Estonian. 双语词法习得：挪威语和俄语对儿童爱沙尼亚语句子重复的影响。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251327209

Adele Vaks, Virve-Anneli Vihman

{"title":"Bilingual Acquisition of Morphology: Norwegian and Russian Influence on Children's Sentence Repetition in Estonian.","authors":"Adele Vaks, Virve-Anneli Vihman","doi":"10.1177/00238309251327209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251327209","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we investigate whether two structurally distinct languages, Norwegian and Russian, influence the use of Estonian morphosyntax by bilingual 5 to 7-year-olds. Using a sentence-repetition task, we tested the acquisition and use of Estonian morphosyntax by children acquiring Estonian alongside Norwegian and Russian, which differ in their use of morphological marking. We tested 69 children aged 4;9 to 7;10 (24 Estonian-Norwegian and 24 Russian-Estonian bilinguals, 21 Estonian monolinguals), using three sentence structures that vary across the languages (copula clauses, experiencer clauses, and complex conditional sentences). Quantitative results showed no significant differences between groups. Both groups were at ceiling for copula clauses, but they performed in opposite directions with the other two structures, suggesting possible effects of the other language. An error analysis revealed small differences in children's use of experiencer and conditional constructions. Contrary to expectations, Norwegian-speaking bilinguals did not produce more errors of omission than of commission in either sentence type. Rather, they used a wider array of cases in the experiencer clauses than Russian-speaking children. In the conditional items, both groups exhibited a tendency to use indicative past in place of conditional present, transferring the use of past forms for conditional meanings from Norwegian or Russian. Other differences are discussed in light of language structure, Estonian exposure, and study design.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251327209"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144024372","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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Investigating Cross-Cultural Vocal Emotion Recognition With an Affectively and Linguistically Balanced Design. 用情感和语言平衡的设计研究跨文化声音情感识别。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251318730

Yachan Liang, Martijn Goudbeek, Agnieszka Konopka, Jiyoun Choi, Mirjam Broersma

{"title":"Investigating Cross-Cultural Vocal Emotion Recognition With an Affectively and Linguistically Balanced Design.","authors":"Yachan Liang, Martijn Goudbeek, Agnieszka Konopka, Jiyoun Choi, Mirjam Broersma","doi":"10.1177/00238309251318730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251318730","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates cross-cultural vocal emotion recognition in a corpus with an affectively and linguistically balanced design. It has two main goals, one theoretical and the other methodological. First, it aims to explore the recognition of emotions in two typologically different languages, Dutch and Korean, within and across cultures. Second, it aims to contribute to the methodological development of the study of cross-cultural vocal emotion recognition by presenting a new corpus for Dutch and Korean emotional speech (the Demo/Koremo corpus), containing portrayals of eight emotions differing in arousal, valence, and basicness (joy, pride, tenderness, relief, anger, fear, sadness, irritation) produced by Dutch and Korean actors, and communicated in a single pseudo phrase which was viable in both languages. Dutch and Korean participants listened to recordings of all emotions produced by the Dutch and Korean actors and indicated for each one which emotion they thought it expressed. Both groups of listeners recognized emotions significantly above chance in both languages, but more accurately in their native language, in line with the Dialect Theory of emotion. Low-arousal emotions, negative emotions, and basic emotions were recognized more accurately than their counterparts. While some of these results replicate earlier findings, others-the effect of arousal and the within-cultural effect of valence and basicness-had not been previously investigated. This study provides new insights in cross-cultural vocal emotion recognition and contributes to the methodological toolkit of intercultural emotion recognition research.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251318730"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042054","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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L1 Versus L2 Gender Agreement Processing: Reliance on Gender Assignment or Morphophonological Cue Matching? 第一语言与第二语言性别协议处理：依赖性别分配还是词音线索匹配？

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251325270

Ezequiel M Durand-López, Vicente Iranzo

{"title":"L1 Versus L2 Gender Agreement Processing: Reliance on Gender Assignment or Morphophonological Cue Matching?","authors":"Ezequiel M Durand-López, Vicente Iranzo","doi":"10.1177/00238309251325270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251325270","url":null,"abstract":"Studies exploring gender agreement processing in late bilinguals whose first language (L1) lacks the gender feature suggest that advanced second language (L2) learners can detect gender agreement violations in the L2. Importantly, these studies have mainly included gender canonical nouns (e.g., la silla, el libro). However, the specific mechanisms L2 learners use while processing L2 gender agreement are unclear: Do learners rely on morphophonological cues (i.e., gender suffix) or on their gender assignment? In this study, English advanced L2 learners of Spanish and Spanish monolinguals completed a moving window task containing sentences with canonical and deceptive nouns engaged in noun-adjective gender (dis)agreement relations (e.g., casa antigua/*o, mano rosada/*o). Results revealed that Spanish monolinguals and advanced L2 learners were sensitive to violations with canonical nouns. However, native speakers were significantly slower at computing gender disagreement than agreement with deceptive nouns, while advanced L2 learners exhibited the opposite processing pattern (i.e., they took longer to process gender agreement than disagreement with deceptive nouns). The findings suggest that native speakers seem to rely on their gender assignment, while L2 learners focus more on suffix matching patterns (i.e., if -o in the noun, -o in the adjective).","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251325270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144057987","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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Form-Meaning Relations in Russian Confirmative and Surprise Declarative Questions. 俄语确认疑问句和意外疑问句的形式-意义关系。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251314862

Andrei Munteanu, Angelika Kiss

{"title":"Form-Meaning Relations in Russian Confirmative and Surprise Declarative Questions.","authors":"Andrei Munteanu, Angelika Kiss","doi":"10.1177/00238309251314862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251314862","url":null,"abstract":"Declarative questions (DQs) are declarative sentences used as questions. As declaratives, they differ from information-seeking polar questions (ISQs) in their syntax, and as biased questions, they differ from polar questions because they can convey various epistemic stances: a request for confirmation, surprise, or incredulity. Most studies on their intonation typically compare just one subtype to ISQs. In this paper, we present a production study where participants pronounced ISQs, confirmative and surprise DQs, and assertions in Russian. We analyzed the pitch and duration of the target utterances, as these prosodic cues proved to be important in the formal markedness of various biased question types across languages. A principal component analysis (PCA) on the pitch contours shows that DQs bear the same rise-fall contour as ISQs, but its peak falls on the stressed syllable of the last word of the sentence instead of the verb. The intonation of surprise DQs differs from that of confirmative ones in that they also exhibit a slight peak on the subject. Pitch alone is thus enough to distinguish the four utterance types tested. The PCA analysis was also used to identify higher-level trends in the data (principal components), two of which appear to correspond to core semantic properties, namely belief change and commitment. In addition to intonation, speaker commitment also correlates with utterance duration.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309251314862"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143743905","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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