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Predictability Associated With Reduction in Phonetic Signals Without Semantics-The Case of Glossolalia. 与无语义的语音信号减少有关的可预测性--语词症案例。

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-17 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231163170

Samantha Link, Fabian Tomaschek

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Perceptual Sensitivity to Tonal Alignment in Nuer. 努埃尔人对音调排列的感知敏感性。

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231162299

Siri Gjersøe, Bert Remijsen

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Adaptation at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Evidence From a Vernacular Structure. 语法-语义界面的适应性：来自方言结构的证据。

IF 1.1 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-09 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231164972

Frances Blanchette, Erin Flannery, Carrie Jackson, Paul Reed

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The Interaction Effect of Pronunciation and Lexicogrammar on Comprehensibility: A Case of Mandarin-Accented English. 发音和词汇语法对可理解性的交互影响：普通话英语案例

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-06 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231156918

Yongzhi Miao, Heath Rose, Sepideh Hosseini

{"title":"The Interaction Effect of Pronunciation and Lexicogrammar on Comprehensibility: A Case of Mandarin-Accented English.","authors":"Yongzhi Miao, Heath Rose, Sepideh Hosseini","doi":"10.1177/00238309231156918","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309231156918","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars have argued that comprehensibility (i.e., ease of understanding), not nativelike performance, should be prioritized in second language learning, which inspired numerous studies to explore factors affecting comprehensibility. However, most of these studies did not consider potential interaction effects of these factors, resulting in a limited understanding of comprehensibility and less precise implications. This study investigates how pronunciation and lexicogrammar influences the comprehensibility of Mandarin-accented English. A total of 687 listeners were randomly allocated into six groups and rated (a) one baseline and (b) one of six experimental recordings for comprehensibility on a 9-point scale. The baseline recording, a 60 s spontaneous speech by an L1 English speaker with an American accent, was the same across groups. The six 75-s experimental recordings were the same in content but differed in (a) speakers' degree of foreign accent (American, moderate Mandarin, and heavy Mandarin) and (b) lexicogrammar (with errors vs. without errors). The study found that pronunciation and lexicogrammar interacted to influence comprehensibility. That is, whether pronunciation affected comprehensibility depended on speakers' lexicogrammar, and vice versa. The results have implications for theory-building to refine comprehensibility, as well as for pedagogy and testing priorities.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"3-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10831757","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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Disentangling the Role of Biphone Probability From Neighborhood Density in the Perception of Nonwords. 从邻域密度中析出双音概率在非词感知中的作用

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-09 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231164982

Jeremy Steffman, Megha Sundara

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Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions. Kinect-ing the Dots：使用动作捕捉技术区分手语的语言表达和手势表达。

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231169502

Rose Stamp, David Cohn, Hagit Hel-Or, Wendy Sandler

{"title":"Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions.","authors":"Rose Stamp, David Cohn, Hagit Hel-Or, Wendy Sandler","doi":"10.1177/00238309231169502","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309231169502","url":null,"abstract":"Just as vocalization proceeds in a continuous stream in speech, so too do movements of the hands, face, and body in sign languages. Here, we use motion-capture technology to distinguish lexical signs in sign language from other common types of expression in the signing stream. One type of expression is constructed action, the enactment of (aspects of) referents and events by (parts of) the body. Another is classifier constructions, the manual representation of analogue and gradient motions and locations simultaneously with specified referent morphemes. The term signing is commonly used for all of these, but we show that not all visual signals in sign languages are of the same type. In this study of Israeli Sign Language, we use motion capture to show that the motion of lexical signs differs significantly along several kinematic parameters from that of the two other modes of expression: constructed action and the classifier forms. In so doing, we show how motion-capture technology can help to define the universal linguistic category \"word,\" and to distinguish it from the expressive gestural elements that are commonly found across sign languages.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"255-276"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9776155","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 Effects of Acoustic and Semantic Enhancements on Perception of Native and Non-Native Speech. 声学和语义增强对母语和非母语语音感知的影响

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-26 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231156615

Misaki Kato, Melissa M Baese-Berk

{"title":"The Effects of Acoustic and Semantic Enhancements on Perception of Native and Non-Native Speech.","authors":"Misaki Kato, Melissa M Baese-Berk","doi":"10.1177/00238309231156615","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309231156615","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has shown that native listeners benefit from clearly produced speech, as well as from predictable semantic context when these enhancements are delivered in native speech. However, it is unclear whether native listeners benefit from acoustic and semantic enhancements differently when listening to other varieties of speech, including non-native speech. The current study examines to what extent native English listeners benefit from acoustic and semantic cues present in native and non-native English speech. Native English listeners transcribed sentence final words that were of different levels of semantic predictability, produced in plain- or clear-speaking styles by Native English talkers and by native Mandarin talkers of higher- and lower-proficiency in English. The perception results demonstrated that listeners benefited from semantic cues in higher- and lower-proficiency talkers' speech (i.e., transcribed speech more accurately), but not from acoustic cues, even though higher-proficiency talkers did make substantial acoustic enhancements from plain to clear speech. The current results suggest that native listeners benefit more robustly from semantic cues than from acoustic cues when those cues are embedded in non-native speech.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"40-71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9177266","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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Violations of Lab-Learned Phonological Patterns Elicit a Late Positive Component. 违反实验室学习的语音模式会引发晚期积极成分。

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-16 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231152492

Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater, Robert Staubs, Benjamin Zobel, Lisa Sanders

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Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence. 西班牙语高水平英语学习者的鼻音手势定时模式：空气动力学证据

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231215355

Ander Beristain

{"title":"Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence.","authors":"Ander Beristain","doi":"10.1177/00238309231215355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309231215355","url":null,"abstract":"Segment-to-segment timing overlap between Vowel-Nasal gestures in /VN/ sequences varies cross-linguistically. However, how bilinguals may adjust those timing gestures is still unanswered. Regarding timing strategies in a second language (L2), research finds that native (L1) strategies can be partially transferred to the L2, and that higher L2 proficiency promotes a more successful phonetic performance. My goal is to answer whether bilingual speakers can adjust their L1 coarticulatory settings in their L2 and to observe whether their L2 accentedness plays a role in ultimate attainment. Ten native speakers of Spanish (L1Sp) who were highly proficient L2 English speakers participated in Spanish and English read-aloud tasks. A control group of 16 L1 English speakers undertook the English experiment. Aerodynamic data were collected using pressure transducers. Each participant produced tokens with nasalized vowels in CVN# words and oral vowels in CV(CV) words. Four linguistically trained judges (two per target language) evaluated a set of pseudo-randomized sentences produced by the participants containing words with nasalized vowels and rated the speech on a 1 (heavily accented) to 9 (native-like) Likert-type scale. Measurements for onset and degree of overall nasality were obtained. Results indicate the L1Sp group can accommodate gestural timing strategies cross-linguistically as they exhibit an earlier nasality onset and increment nasality proportion in L2 English in a native-like manner. In addition, a positive correlation between greater vowel nasality degree and native-like accentedness in the L2 was found, suggesting L2 timing settings might be specified in higher spoken proficiency levels.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309231215355"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139059054","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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Task Effects in Irony Comprehension in English as a Foreign Language. 任务效应在外语英语反语理解中的作用。

IF 1.8 2区文学

Language and Speech Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2022-12-07 DOI: 10.1177/00238309221127029

Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, Joanna Kowalik, Anna Pękacz

{"title":"Task Effects in Irony Comprehension in English as a Foreign Language.","authors":"Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, Joanna Kowalik, Anna Pękacz","doi":"10.1177/00238309221127029","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309221127029","url":null,"abstract":"Irony comprehension involves understanding implicit attitudes communicated on top of the explicit, literal meaning. Because of the double-binding stemming from the explicit-implicit incongruity, irony is assumed to be cognitively taxing when communicated in the native language (NL), and even more so in the foreign language (FL). Prior studies investigating irony comprehension in the FL indicated that irony may be processed with similar speed and accuracy in the foreign and the native language, and that irony comprehension efficiency in the former might be lower. Building on these findings, this study investigates if the tasks participants perform when reading irony in their FL affect the efficiency of irony comprehension. We invited 150 advanced Polish users of English to take part in one of two tasks. Participants were asked to read 3- to 5-sentence-long-scenarios, ending in literal (Literal Praise, Literal Criticism) or ironic comments (Ironic Praise, Ironic Criticism) and to either (1) make true/false judgments (T/F task; N = 83), or to (2) judge the emotional value in emotive decision task (EDT; N = 67). A full spectrum of verbal irony employed to communicate ironic praise and criticism, and their literal equivalents: literal praise and literal criticism, was tested. A three-way mixed ANOVA with 2× Valence (Praise, Criticism), 2× Mode (Literal, Ironic) as within-subject repeated-measures, and 2× Task (True/False, Emotive Decision) as a between-subject independent measure, revealed that efficiency of irony comprehension was differently modified by the two tasks. Therefore, we argue that irony comprehension in English as a foreign language is task-constrained.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"833-850"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10666523/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10361246","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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