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Rhythm Is a Marker of Ethnicity in Modern Hebrew: Evidence from a Perception Study and Actors’ Ethnicized Portrayals 节奏是现代希伯来语中的种族标志：来自感知研究和演员民族化形象的证据

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241243025

Si Berrebi, Sharon Peperkamp

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Language Dependency of /s/ Production: Native Dutch Versus Non-Native English /s/发音的语言依赖性：母语荷兰语与非母语英语

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-04-20 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241242114

Meike M. de Boer, Willemijn F. L. Heeren

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The Effects of Phonological Complexity on Word Production in French-Speaking Children. 语音复杂性对法语儿童造词能力的影响

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241237473

Margaret Kehoe

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Investigating Linguistic Alignment in Collaborative Dialogue: A Study of Syntactic and Lexical Patterns in Middle School Students. 调查合作对话中的语言一致性：中学生句法和词汇模式研究。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241234565

Xiaoyi Tian, Amanda E Griffith, Zane Price, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Kevin Tang

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Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin-English Bilingual Speakers. 普通话-英语双语者的英语/ɹ/发音。

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-10 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241230895

Shuwen Chen, D H Whalen, Peggy Pik Ki Mok

{"title":"Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin-English Bilingual Speakers.","authors":"Shuwen Chen, D H Whalen, Peggy Pik Ki Mok","doi":"10.1177/00238309241230895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309241230895","url":null,"abstract":"Rhotic sounds are some of the most challenging sounds for L2 learners to acquire. This study investigates the production of English rhotic sounds by Mandarin-English bilinguals with two English proficiency levels. The production of the English /ɹ/ by 17 Mandarin-English bilinguals was examined with ultrasound imaging and compared with the production of native English speakers. The ultrasound data show that bilinguals can produce native-like bunched and retroflex gestures, but the distributional pattern of tongue shapes in various contexts differs from that of native speakers. Acoustically, the English /ɹ/ produced by bilinguals had a higher F3 and F3-F2, as well as some frication noise in prevocalic /ɹ/, features similar to the Mandarin /ɹ/. Mandarin-English bilinguals did produce language-specific phonetic realizations for the English and Mandarin /ɹ/s. There was a positive correlation between language proficiency and English-specific characteristics of /ɹ/ by Mandarin-English bilinguals in both articulation and acoustics. Phonetic similarities facilitated rather than hindered L2 speech learning in production: Mandarin-English bilinguals showed better performance in producing the English /ɹ/ allophones that were more similar to the Mandarin /ɹ/ (syllabic and postvocalic /ɹ/s) than producing the English /ɹ/ allophone that was less similar to the Mandarin /ɹ/ (prevocalic /ɹ/). This study contributes to our understanding of the mechanism of speech production in late bilinguals.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309241230895"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140095028","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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Speech Fluency Production and Perception in L1 (Slovak) and L2 (English) Read Speech. 第一语言（斯洛伐克语）和第二语言（英语）朗读中的语音流畅度生成和感知。

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-05 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241230899

Lucia Mareková, Štefan Beňuš

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The "Starting-Small" Effect in Phonology: Evidence From Biased Learning of Opaque and Transparent Vowel Harmony. 语音学中的 "小起点 "效应：不透明和透明元音和谐的偏向学习证据。

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241230625

Tsung-Ying Chen

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Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian. 衔接推断和参考管理：来自加泰罗尼亚语和俄语实验调查的证据。

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-05 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231173337

Daria Seres, Joan Borràs-Comes, M Teresa Espinal

{"title":"Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian.","authors":"Daria Seres, Joan Borràs-Comes, M Teresa Espinal","doi":"10.1177/00238309231173337","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309231173337","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the choice of nominal forms in a language with articles (Catalan) in comparison to a language without articles (Russian). An experimental study (consisting of various naturalness judgment tasks) was run with speakers of these two languages which allowed to show that in bridging contexts native speakers' preferences vary when reference is made to one single individual or to two disjoint referents. In the former case, Catalan speakers chose (in)definite NPs depending on their accessibility to contextual information that guarantees a unique interpretation (or the lack of it) for the entity referred to. Russian speakers chose bare nominals as a default form. When reference is made to two disjoint referents (as encoded by the presence of an additional altre/drugoj \"other\" NP), speakers prefer an optimal combination of two indefinite NPs (i.e., un NP followed by un altre NP in Catalan; odin \"some/a\" NP followed by drugoj NP in Russian). This study shows how speakers of the two languages manage to combine grammatical knowledge (related to the meaning of the definite and the indefinite articles and altre in Catalan; and the meaning of bare nominals, odin and drugoj in Russian) with world knowledge activation and accessibility to discourse information.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"203-227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9935008","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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Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information. 对直接和间接信息请求的椭圆形答复。

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-10 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231176526

Katherine Chia, Michael P Kaschak

{"title":"Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information.","authors":"Katherine Chia, Michael P Kaschak","doi":"10.1177/00238309231176526","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309231176526","url":null,"abstract":"We present two studies examining the factors that lead speakers to produce elliptical responses to requests for information. Following Clark and Levelt and Kelter, experimenters called businesses and asked about their closing time (e.g., Can you tell me what time you close?). Participants provided the requested information in full sentence responses (We close at 9) or elliptical responses (At 9). A reanalysis of data from previous experiments using this paradigm shows that participants are more likely to produce an elliptical response when the question is a direct request for information (What time do you close?) than when the question is an indirect request for information (Can you tell me what time you close?). Participants were less likely to produce an elliptical response when they began their answer by providing a yes/no response (e.g., Sure . . . we close at 9). A new experiment replicated these findings, and further showed that elliptical responses were less likely when (1) irrelevant linguistic content was inserted between the question and the participant's response, and (2) participants verbalized signs of difficulty retrieving the requested information. This latter effect is most prominent in response to questions that are seen as very polite (May I ask you what time you close?). We discuss the role that the recoverability of the intended meaning of the ellipsis, the accessibility of potential antecedents for the ellipsis, pragmatic factors, and memory retrieval play in shaping the production of ellipsis.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"228-254"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9655351","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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Playing With Fire Compounds: The Tonal Accents of Compounds in (North) Norwegian Preschoolers' Role-Play Register. 玩火化合物：北）挪威学龄前儿童角色扮演注册表中化合物的音调。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231161289

Bror-Magnus S Strand

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