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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 : 2026-06-01 Epub 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":"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":"314-333"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","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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The Articulatory and Acoustic Variability in Putonghua Onset /r/. 普通话起音的发音和声学变化/r/。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251350082

Shan Luo

{"title":"The Articulatory and Acoustic Variability in Putonghua Onset /r/.","authors":"Shan Luo","doi":"10.1177/00238309251350082","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251350082","url":null,"abstract":"The debate about the rhotic sound in Standard Mandarin (i.e., Putonghua) focuses on its articulation as a retroflex and its classification as either a fricative or an approximant. To address these questions, this study examines the syllable-initial r-sound, quantifying tongue contours for the r-phoneme itself and in relation to the retroflex sibilants (i.e., /ʂ, tʂh, tʂ/). Both established and novel articulatory and acoustic measures are employed to assess their effectiveness in distinguishing phonetic contrasts. The ultrasound imaging results reveal that Putonghua onset /r/ is articulated with either a tip-up retroflex or a tip-down bunched tongue posture, specifying both coronal and dorsal gestures. Compared to /ʂ, tʂh, tʂ/, the syllable-initial /r/ is produced with a greater degree of tip-up retroflexion and more pronounced tongue inflections, supported by vertical tongue displacement and discrete Fourier transform measurements. Acoustically, Putonghua /r/ is most often produced without frication and is characterized by low F3, F3F2 distance and zero crossing rates. The results find that even the fricated /r/ variant remains substantially distinct from sibilants both in tongue gestures and acoustic properties. The study argues that this phoneme should be classified as a retroflex approximant, transcribed as [ɻ], rather than a fricative [ʐ]. The results contribute substantial evidence to the limited articulatory corpus and enhance the understanding of the Putonghua rhotic's articulatory-acoustic correspondence, highlighting the importance of contextualizing phonetic variability within the phonology of the language.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"535-562"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144745919","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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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 : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251338748

Huichao Bi, Rong Yan, Samad Zare

{"title":"Cross-Linguistic Association Between Phonological Awareness and Connected Speech Perception Skills of Chinese EFL Young Learners.","authors":"Huichao Bi, Rong Yan, Samad Zare","doi":"10.1177/00238309251338748","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251338748","url":null,"abstract":"Phonological awareness (PA) is of great significance to children's early language learning and cognitive development. However, there has been a clear lack of research on the role of PA in developing children's perception of connected speech in foreign languages. Thus, this study focused on the cross-linguistic association between PA and children's connected speech perception skills. A total of 82 10- to-11-year-old Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners participated in a battery of tasks on English connected speech perception and English and Chinese PA. The data yielded three critical results based on correlation, linear regression, Sobel test, and bootstrapping analyses. First, EFL young learners' English connected speech perception skills were significantly associated with their English and Chinese PA. Second, English phonemic and Chinese sound awareness were recognized as predictors of their connected speech perception skills. Moreover, the results further revealed that Chinese tone awareness predicted English connected speech perception skills via a direct pathway through Chinese sound awareness as a mediator. These findings demonstrated a cross-linguistic positive correlation between PA and connected speech perception skills from graphic to alphabetic characters in childhood. The results of this study shed light on teaching strategies for connected speech in EFL primary school education.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"441-459"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144192518","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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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 : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251336780

Sabrina Link, Hans-Jörg Schmid, Devin G Ray

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Exploring the Relationship Between Mental Boundary Strength and Phonetic Accommodation. 心理边界强度与语音适应关系的探讨。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251341895

Iona Gessinger, Nicolas Becker, Benjamin R Cowan

{"title":"Exploring the Relationship Between Mental Boundary Strength and Phonetic Accommodation.","authors":"Iona Gessinger, Nicolas Becker, Benjamin R Cowan","doi":"10.1177/00238309251341895","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251341895","url":null,"abstract":"We motivate a possible relationship between the psychological concept of mental boundaries and the linguistic phenomenon of phonetic accommodation, proposing that thinner boundaries may indicate a greater disposition to phonetically adapt to an interlocutor. To enable research on this relationship with German speakers, we translated the English short version of the Boundary Questionnaire (BQ-Sh), an established instrument for measuring the strength of mental boundaries, and demonstrated that the resulting German adaptation (BQ-Sh-G) can be used equivalently to the BQ-Sh. As the Big Five personality traits have previously been considered in research on both mental boundaries and phonetic accommodation, we explored the relationship between the BQ-Sh-G and the NEO-Five Factor Inventory. Consistent with previous literature, the BQ-Sh-G score correlated positively with Neuroticism and Openness, as well as negatively with Conscientiousness. We collected BQ-Sh-G scores from participants of an experiment on phonetic accommodation in a human-computer interaction context, specifically investigating the realization of the word ending 〈-ig〉 and the intonation of wh-questions in German. The analysis revealed a tendency for thicker mental boundaries to correspond with more convergence to 〈-ig〉 variants. Taking into account the results of previous work exploring the influence of the Big Five on the same data, we conclude that speakers may accommodate to different types of phonetic features depending on different personality traits. We encourage future work to investigate this further, while also exploring the predictive potential of the boundary construct with respect to a general disposition to phonetic accommodation, that is, examining a large number of phonetic features simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"479-504"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144531003","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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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 : 2026-06-01 Epub 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":"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":"378-411"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","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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Perceived Gender in Clear and Conversational Speech. 清晰对话式言语中的感知性别。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-08 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251336781

Jaime A Booz, Sarah Hargus Ferguson, Brett R Myers

{"title":"Perceived Gender in Clear and Conversational Speech.","authors":"Jaime A Booz, Sarah Hargus Ferguson, Brett R Myers","doi":"10.1177/00238309251336781","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309251336781","url":null,"abstract":"Clear speech is a speaking style adopted by talkers who perceive a barrier to effective communication. Clear speech has been reported to have acoustic characteristics that are similar to those of speech perceived as feminine (e.g., expanded vowel space, longer vowel duration, and increased fundamental frequency compared with conversational speech). The present study therefore explored whether clear speech is indeed perceived as more feminine than conversational speech by naïve listeners. Clear and conversational sentences produced by 20 male and 21 female talkers were presented to 17 young adults with normal hearing, who used a visual analog scale with \"masculine\" and \"feminine\" endpoints to rate the talkers' gender. Results showed that clear speech was rated significantly more feminine than conversational speech for male talkers but not female talkers (β = -4.273, t = -7.407, p < .001). Perceived femininity was significantly correlated with median fundamental frequency for female (r = .55, p < .001) and male talkers (r = .54, p < .001) and with vowel space perimeter for male talkers (r = .49, p < .001). Perceived femininity was more weakly correlated with fundamental frequency interquartile range (r = .24, p < .001) and speaking rate (r = -.16, p < .001). These results suggest that adopting a clear speaking style may increase perceived femininity. Although using clear speech alone may not suffice for a talker to be perceived as female, it could be used as one of many tools to help talkers achieve more \"feminine\" speech.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"460-478"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250747","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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Corrigendum to "Sources of Intelligibility of Distant Languages: An Empirical Study". “遥远语言可理解性的来源：一项实证研究”的勘误表。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251410999

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Second-Language Acquisition and First-Language Attrition of Speech: The Production of Arabic and English Short Vowels. 第二语言习得与母语言语损耗：阿拉伯语和英语短元音的产生。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-10 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251344889

Lisa Kornder, Amirah Saud Alharbi, Anouschka Foltz

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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 : 2026-06-01 Epub 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":"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":"278-313"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13195068/pdf/","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":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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