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Acoustic and Perceptual Differences of Aegyo Speaking Style Across Gender in Seoul Korean. 首尔朝鲜语Aegyo说话风格的声学和感知差异

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-10 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251383547

Ji-Eun Kim, Volker Dellwo

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The Role of Phonological Factors in the Processing of Polish Phonotactics. 语音因素在波兰语语音策略加工中的作用。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251327671

Paula Orzechowska, Andrzej Porębski, Marta Nowak

{"title":"The Role of Phonological Factors in the Processing of Polish Phonotactics.","authors":"Paula Orzechowska, Andrzej Porębski, Marta Nowak","doi":"10.1177/00238309251327671","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251327671","url":null,"abstract":"One of the predominant questions asked in phonological research refers to the way in which strings of vowels and consonants are perceived and processed by native speakers. In this paper, we make an attempt at uncovering the mental processes that underlie the online processing of phonotactics in Polish; a language featuring an unusual array of strings of consonants. We report on a reaction time experiment using nonce monosyllables with final consonant clusters and identify phonological factors that determine their acceptability. The factors include cluster (non-)existence in the lexicon of Polish, cluster well-formedness in terms of the universally preferred sonority slope, and the quality of the nuclear vowel. The findings testify to the facilitative role of cluster existence and well-formedness on phonotactic intuitions. That is, universally preferred and existent clusters are easily identified as possible and involve the shortest reaction times. Moreover, we detected a systematic perceptual contribution of vowels, whereby the front-back dimension (rather than sonority-related high-low dimension) seems to facilitate the decision-making process.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"684-707"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13494138/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144977904","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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Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production. 学习准确的起始簇：感知滞后于生产。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-18 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251362881

Claire Moore-Cantwell, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Ashley Farris-Trimble

{"title":"Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production.","authors":"Claire Moore-Cantwell, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Ashley Farris-Trimble","doi":"10.1177/00238309251362881","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251362881","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates young school-aged children's knowledge (at 4-7 years) of accurate English word-initial onset clusters. By this age, we expect children to be mostly accurate in producing #CC clusters (rather than repairing them with deletion or epenthesis). We ask how well can they recognize and reject cluster repair errors, in both real and nonce word tasks. The results suggest that these learners' cluster judgment skills lag behind their cluster production abilities, and that asymmetries in error types do not overall align between the two domains. Perceptual errors are made most often when comparing clusters with epenthesis repairs, not deletion, and the cluster's sonority profile does not directly influence error rates. After comparing these findings with similar results from adult L2 English speakers as well, we discuss the ways in which issues like recoverability, salience, and contiguity can account for our findings. We also suggest that more work on phonological knowledge and judgments in older children will provide a broader understanding of sound pattern acquisition across development.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"726-752"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13494117/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145318725","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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Comparing Online and Face-to-Face Administration of the Polish Sentence Repetition Task in Monolingual and Multilingual Children: Higher Scores in Face-to-Face Testing. 单语和多语儿童波兰语句子重复任务在线管理和面对面管理的比较：面对面测试得分更高。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-14 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251394372

Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak, Magdalena Kochańska, Maria Obarska, Maria Zajączkowska, Joanna Świderska, Ewa Haman

{"title":"Comparing Online and Face-to-Face Administration of the Polish Sentence Repetition Task in Monolingual and Multilingual Children: Higher Scores in Face-to-Face Testing.","authors":"Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak, Magdalena Kochańska, Maria Obarska, Maria Zajączkowska, Joanna Świderska, Ewa Haman","doi":"10.1177/00238309251394372","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251394372","url":null,"abstract":"This study compared online and face-to-face (f2f) testing using the short Polish version of the LITMUS Sentence Repetition Task (SRep) with multilingual and monolingual Polish-speaking children. The shift to remote testing during the COVID-19 pandemic prompted questions about whether online methods yield results comparable with in-person testing for assessing multilingual children's grammatical abilities. Reliable online testing could enhance access to underrepresented populations, enabling families from diverse backgrounds to participate from home. We tested 92 multilingual children (speaking Polish and English or German) and 55 monolingual Polish-speaking children aged 4;6-7;6. Each child completed the SRep task twice (online and f2f) in a counterbalanced order. Results showed better performance on f2f tasks for both groups. Multilingual children improved on their second attempt, regardless of format, while monolinguals consistently scored higher in the f2f condition. These findings indicate differences in performance across testing modalities and the need to adapt and norm the SRep task for both online and f2f administration separately.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"918-945"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13494118/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145758397","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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French Speakers Prefer Prosody Over Statistics to Segment Speech. 说法语的人更喜欢韵律而不是统计。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251374295

Joan Birulés, Mireia Marimon, Alexandre Duroyal, Anne Vilain, Gérard Bailly, Mathilde Fort

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Graded Sensitivity to Vowel Mispronunciations in Newly Learned Words. 新学单词中元音错读的分级敏感性。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-07 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251389179

Molly Massar, Erin Conwell

{"title":"Graded Sensitivity to Vowel Mispronunciations in Newly Learned Words.","authors":"Molly Massar, Erin Conwell","doi":"10.1177/00238309251389179","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251389179","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of word recognition have demonstrated that listeners show graded sensitivity to mispronunciations of consonants in words, as well as better mispronunciation detection for more familiar words. However, little research has considered whether this graded sensitivity to mispronunciation can also be found for vowels and how that might interact with word familiarity. In this study, 73 English-speaking adults learned novel consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) labels for novel objects, with varying amounts of exposure to those labels during learning. Participants were then tested on their learning of these word-referent pairs, as well as on their responses when these newly learned words were mispronounced with a vowel that either had the same backness (±) as the original vowel (small mispronunciation) or the opposite backness as the original vowel (large mispronunciation). Participants reliably matched learned words to referents when the words were correctly pronounced but sometimes selected a distractor referent when the words were mispronounced, suggesting interpretation as a new word. Larger mispronunciations, particularly of more familiar words, increased the likelihood of distractor selection. These findings add to the growing body of evidence that perception of mispronounced words is affected by both lexical familiarity and degree of mispronunciation.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"853-870"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13494116/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145702880","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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The Architecture of Bilingual Phonological Knowledge and Performance. 双语语音知识与表现的建构。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-08-25 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261473989

John Archibald

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Interaction of Frequency and Inflectional Status: An Approach From Discriminative Learning. 频率与屈折状态的互动：一种来自判别学习的研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-08-25 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261474056

Motoki Saito, Fabian Tomaschek, R Harald Baayen

{"title":"Interaction of Frequency and Inflectional Status: An Approach From Discriminative Learning.","authors":"Motoki Saito, Fabian Tomaschek, R Harald Baayen","doi":"10.1177/00238309261474056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261474056","url":null,"abstract":"High frequency of occurrences has been associated with phonetic reduction, on one hand, and phonetic enhancement, on the other hand. This study first looks into the possibility that these opposite frequency effects are at least partially due to the different inflectional status of the items being investigated. Based on tongue position data from a spontaneous speech corpus of German, we found that stem vowels in inflected words tended to be hyper-articulated (i.e., phonetic enhancement), whereas those in non-inflected words tended to be articulated with more centralized tongue positions (i.e., phonetic reduction). This observed modulation by inflectional status is subsequently investigated from the perspective of distributional semantics. Using the discriminative lexicon model to study relations between word embeddings and word forms, we observed that word-final triphones of inflected words received more support from their embeddings (i.e., meanings) compared with non-inflected words. Furthermore, replacement of the two-level factorial predictor of inflectional status with the amount of semantic support led to substantial improvement in model fit. These results suggest direct relationships between word forms and meanings and argue for further investigation of form-meaning isomorphies and their consequences for cognitive models of speech production.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261474056"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148820205","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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Prosody Influences Real-Time Processing When Grammar Allows but Plays Less of a Role in Final Interpretation: An Eye-Tracking Study on VP Ellipsis and Stripping. 当语法允许但在最终解释中作用较小时，韵律影响实时加工：副语序省略和剥离的眼动追踪研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-08-24 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261477073

Haerim Hwang

{"title":"Prosody Influences Real-Time Processing When Grammar Allows but Plays Less of a Role in Final Interpretation: An Eye-Tracking Study on VP Ellipsis and Stripping.","authors":"Haerim Hwang","doi":"10.1177/00238309261477073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261477073","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines whether prosody affects how people process and interpret two types of sentences that both have missing material but differ in ambiguity. Stripping sentences (e.g., Grandma hugged the kid at home and Grandpa too) are ambiguous because the argument after and can be read as either the subject of the missing verb or the second object of the audible/visible verb. In contrast, verb phrase (VP) ellipsis sentences (e.g., Grandma hugged the kid at home and Grandpa did too) are unambiguous, only allowing a subject reading. In a visual-world eye-tracking experiment, 43 English speakers heard VP ellipsis and Stripping sentences, with either the subject or object in the first conjunct made more prominent through prosody. The analysis of their mouse-click responses shows that prosody did not change their final interpretations: They always preferred the subject reading for VP ellipsis sentences and exhibited no preference for Stripping sentences, no matter which argument was prosodically prominent. The eye-movement data for VP ellipsis sentences also display a consistent pattern of early looks to the subject-reading image. However, the eye-movement data for Stripping sentences reveal a prosody effect: After sentence offset, listeners briefly showed divergent looks toward either the subject- or object-reading image, depending on whether the subject or object carried prosodic prominence. These findings suggest that prosody can influence temporary interpretations during real-time processing but has little impact on final interpretations.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261477073"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809349","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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Tracking L2 English Vowel Perception and Production Among Graduate Professionals Over 18 Months. 18个月来跟踪研究生专业人员的第二语言元音感知和产生。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-08-12 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261470734

Inyoung Na, Charlie Nagle, Mahdi Duris, John M Levis, Sebnem Kurt, Ivana Rehman

{"title":"Tracking L2 English Vowel Perception and Production Among Graduate Professionals Over 18 Months.","authors":"Inyoung Na, Charlie Nagle, Mahdi Duris, John M Levis, Sebnem Kurt, Ivana Rehman","doi":"10.1177/00238309261470734","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309261470734","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates changes in English vowel perception and production among 22 advanced-proficiency second-language (L2) learners from diverse first-language (L1) backgrounds over 18 months at a large U.S. university, with a particular focus on the influence of the L2 English-speaking environment and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study employed Bayesian mixed-effects models to analyze participants' vowel identification accuracy using a perception oddity task and vowel production (intelligibility) accuracy using listener-based ratings at 1, 3, 6, and 18 months after arrival. The sudden shift to online instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which occurred between Months 6 and 18, and the subsequent return of some participants to their home countries added an additional layer of complexity to the investigation. The findings revealed that the participants demonstrated high initial accuracy in identifying L2 vowels, with improvement observed for most contrasts over the first 6 months. Vowel intelligibility, in contrast, did not improve much, with only one contrast showing increased accuracy at the last data point. Individual trajectories showed variability in both perception and production, emphasizing the unique change trajectories of advanced-proficiency learners.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261470734"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148724101","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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