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Perceptual Development of Second Language Sound Categories in a Study Abroad Program: L1 Mandarin Speakers in Spain. 国外留学项目中第二语言声音类别的知觉发展：西班牙母语普通话者。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261434241

Xiaotong Xi, Christine Shea, Peng Li

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Lexical Bias Effects do not Influence Responses to Real-Time Temporal Auditory Feedback Perturbation. 词汇偏差效应不影响对实时时间听觉反馈扰动的反应。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261426375

Miriam Oschkinat, Eva Reinisch, Philip Hoole

{"title":"Lexical Bias Effects do not Influence Responses to Real-Time Temporal Auditory Feedback Perturbation.","authors":"Miriam Oschkinat, Eva Reinisch, Philip Hoole","doi":"10.1177/00238309261426375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261426375","url":null,"abstract":"In speech perception, listeners tend to hear real words rather than non-words on a physically balanced real word-non-word continuum (lexical bias effect). Bourguignon et al. found a similar effect in speech production: With spectral auditory feedback perturbations, they altered vowels toward other vowels thereby causing a shift in lexical status (from word to non-word or vice versa) or not. This study tests whether the lexical bias effect can be extended to the temporal domain in speech production. We perturbed the German vowels /a/ and /a:/ in real words toward the respective other phoneme using a real-time temporal auditory feedback adaptation paradigm. This manipulation pushed the percepts either toward another real word (lexical condition) or not (non-lexical condition). In both perturbation setups (stretching short /a/, or compressing long /a:/), speakers counteracted the perturbation with productions opposing the direction of perturbation. However, response magnitude was similar across conditions, that is, independent of a shift in lexical status. The results indicate that, in the temporal domain, speakers do not heavily rely on higher-level linguistic information, but rather are principally oriented toward maintaining phonemic identification. These findings further imply that temporal and spectral parameters in speech production and perception are governed by different processing strategies.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261426375"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147693573","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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Perceiving and Modeling the Scope of Question Focus in Korean. 韩国语问题焦点范围的感知与塑造。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-04-09 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261419799

Stephen M Jones, Yoolim Kim, Cong Zhang

{"title":"Perceiving and Modeling the Scope of Question Focus in Korean.","authors":"Stephen M Jones, Yoolim Kim, Cong Zhang","doi":"10.1177/00238309261419799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261419799","url":null,"abstract":"The precise nature of the prosodic contribution to disambiguating open and polar questions with indefinite content pro-forms in Korean (e.g., nwukwu \"who/someone\") remains a matter of debate. One possible relevant prosodic feature is expanded F0 range at the site of question focus. We report the results of a pilot experiment followed by a large-scale online speech perception gating study <math><mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>124</mn></mrow><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math> that manipulated the natural prosody of identical strings read as statements or open or polar questions. We found a tendency for all questions to be perceived as open questions, regardless of prosody. Open questions were reliably disambiguated from other utterance types, and there was no effect of the prosodic manipulation. Polar questions did show a significant effect of the prosodic manipulation <math><mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><mrow><mi>p</mi><mo><</mo><mo>.</mo><mn>001</mn></mrow><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>,</mo></mrow></math> but even with full natural prosody, these stimuli were never correctly identified above chance levels. We suggest that in the absence of context, there is a strong preference for hearers to interpret content pro-forms as question words, and that subsequent prosodic information may be discounted if a hearer has already committed to their interpretation. The present findings have implications for formal accounts of the Korean syntax-prosody interface.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261419799"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147647293","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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Comparing Prosodic Timing Effects in Hadari and Bedouin Dialects of Kuwaiti Arabic: A Speech Cycling Study. 科威特阿拉伯语哈达里语和贝都因语的韵律计时效果比较：语音循环研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-04-05 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261419808

Saleh Ghadanfari, Jalal Al-Tamimi, Ghada Khattab, Laurence White

{"title":"Comparing Prosodic Timing Effects in Hadari and Bedouin Dialects of Kuwaiti Arabic: A Speech Cycling Study.","authors":"Saleh Ghadanfari, Jalal Al-Tamimi, Ghada Khattab, Laurence White","doi":"10.1177/00238309261419808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261419808","url":null,"abstract":"We examined differences in speech timing between the Hadari and Bedouin Kuwaiti Arabic dialects using speech cycling. In our version of the paradigm, speakers repeated six-syllable phrases, with the start of each repetition aligned in time with a metronome beat. Previous speech cycling work finds that stressed vowel onsets tend to occur at harmonic phases (e.g., 1/2) within the Phrase Repetition Cycle (PRC), potentially reflecting coordination between prosodic units. Hadari has phonetically stronger stress contrast, with greater unstressed syllable reduction than Bedouin, which may afford closer alignment to harmonic phases. Six trochaic and six iambic sentences were read aloud by 18 Hadari and 18 Bedouin speakers at three metronome trial rates: slow, medium, and fast. The phases of the final (external) and medial (internal) stressed syllables-heavy, CVV(C), or light, CVC-relative to the PRC were analyzed. For the external phase, Hadari tended to align light syllables earlier in the PRC and more similarly to heavy syllables than Bedouin. Vowel duration analysis suggested that this pattern may be due to greater compression of preceding unstressed vowels in Hadari. This suggests that local timing patterns, in particular variation in durational stress contrast, modulate rhythmic coordination between prosodic units.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261419808"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624738","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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Effects of Native Language and Exposure to Foreign Language on Categorization and Discrimination of Vowel Duration and Lexical Tone. 母语和外语暴露对元音音长和词汇语调分类和辨别的影响。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-03-19 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261425682

Kaijun Jiang, Xueqiao Li, Chaoxiong Ye, Peixin Nie, Jarmo A Hämäläinen, Piia Astikainen

{"title":"Effects of Native Language and Exposure to Foreign Language on Categorization and Discrimination of Vowel Duration and Lexical Tone.","authors":"Kaijun Jiang, Xueqiao Li, Chaoxiong Ye, Peixin Nie, Jarmo A Hämäläinen, Piia Astikainen","doi":"10.1177/00238309261425682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261425682","url":null,"abstract":"Native speakers generally outperform non-native speakers in identifying and discriminating speech sounds. Yet, the categorical perception of native speech sounds can sometimes impede the discrimination of sounds within the same phonemic category. It remains unclear whether different linguistic features show similar patterns in cross-linguistic comparisons. Therefore, we studied the categorization and discrimination of vowel duration and lexical tone-two features that differ fundamentally. Vowel duration (short vs. long) typically requires phonemic context for categorization, while tone (rising vs. falling) can be recognized directly from acoustics. Participants were native Finnish and Mandarin Chinese speakers, and native Mandarin Chinese speakers exposed to Finnish. As expected, Mandarin speakers demonstrated a steeper category boundary for tonal stimuli than Finnish speakers. In contrast, no group difference was found for categorization slope for duration. In discrimination, native speakers outperformed non-native speakers for between-category pairs, as anticipated. For within-category pairs, however, native speakers performed worse than non-native speakers-but only for the tone feature. Mandarin speakers exposed to Finnish showed differences in categorization of vowel duration and in associated reaction times compared with the other groups. The results suggest that native language does not influence vowel perception uniformly across tone and duration features. Moreover, exposure to a foreign language in adulthood may, at least initially, lead to categorization preferences that diverge from, rather than align with, those of native speakers. These findings provide a basis for future theoretical models of how native language and late exposure shape speech perception across different phonetic features.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261425682"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147488341","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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External Vowel Sandhi in Castilian Spanish: An Acoustic Study of Vowel Sequences Across Word Junctures. 卡斯蒂利亚西班牙语的外元音变调：跨词接合点元音序列的声学研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-03-03 DOI: 10.1177/00238309261419126

Miquel Simonet, Jessica C Tiegs

{"title":"External Vowel Sandhi in Castilian Spanish: An Acoustic Study of Vowel Sequences Across Word Junctures.","authors":"Miquel Simonet, Jessica C Tiegs","doi":"10.1177/00238309261419126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309261419126","url":null,"abstract":"In Spanish, words may begin or end with a vowel, creating a scenario where two vowels meet across a word juncture, such as in mono enano \"dwarf monkey.\" Vowel sequences of this sort are said to be affected by a post-lexical process of hiatus resolution in which one of the two vowels becomes a glide. This study explores the acoustic-phonetic characteristics of vowel sequences across word junctures in Castilian Spanish. We focus on vowel sequences with no high vocoids: /ea ae eo oe/. Production data were collected from a sample of 23 speakers, and acoustic analyses focused on duration and the shape of first (F1) and second formant (F2) tracks. Our findings suggest that cross-lexical vowel sequences are resolved via a phonetic coalescence process that retains some of the linearity in (or recoverability of) the underlying sequence, displaying both some diphthongal qualities and some blending qualities. We find no obvious evidence of a \"dominant\" (syllabic) vowel in the sequence, casting doubt on impressionistic transcription-based descriptions postulating a strict dichotomy between syllabic vowels and glides in post-lexical syllable contraction. We discuss alternative accounts of the resolution of Castilian Spanish vowel sequences across word junctures couched within the framework of Articulatory Phonology, and we argue that post-lexical hiatus resolution is not a phonologized process in this language variety.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"238309261419126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147349707","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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Building a Grammatical Network: Form and Function in the Development of Hebrew Prepositions. 构建语法网络：希伯来语介词发展过程中的形式与功能。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241288906

Elisheva Salmon, Dorit Ravid, Elitzur Dattner

{"title":"Building a Grammatical Network: Form and Function in the Development of Hebrew Prepositions.","authors":"Elisheva Salmon, Dorit Ravid, Elitzur Dattner","doi":"10.1177/00238309241288906","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241288906","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the emergence of prepositions in Hebrew-speaking children aged 2;6-6;0 years, analyzing a peer talk corpus of 75 children across five age groups. Across 45-minute triadic conversations, we examined the distributions, semantic functions, and form-function relations of prepositions. Two results sections are presented. First, using network analysis, we modeled the development of form-function correlations of Hebrew prepositions. Second, we conducted qualitative developmental analyses of the distributions and semantics of all prepositions identified in the study. Our findings reveal that prepositions expressed 22 functions, predominantly grammatical, spatial, and temporal. With age, the use of prepositions increased, abstract functions became more prevalent, and functions were served by a broader range of prepositions. The data suggest the emergence of systematic relations, forming network-based clusters or communities of semantically related functions. This systematic growth of the prepositional category signifies not just lexical but also syntactic development in Hebrew, transitioning from lexicalized preposition-marked verb arguments to diverse, abstract preposition-marked syntactic adjuncts, which enrich clause-level complexity.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"54-93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142696184","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 : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/00238309251331595

Catherine E Laing

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Effects of Systematicity on Word Learning in Preschool Children: The Case of Semitic Morpho-Phonology. 系统化对学龄前儿童词汇学习的影响：以闪族语素音系为例。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241312983

Niveen Omar, Bracha Nir, Karen Banai

{"title":"Effects of Systematicity on Word Learning in Preschool Children: The Case of Semitic Morpho-Phonology.","authors":"Niveen Omar, Bracha Nir, Karen Banai","doi":"10.1177/00238309241312983","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241312983","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the role of systematicity in word learning, focusing on Semitic morpho-phonology where words exhibit multiple levels of systematicity. Building upon previous research on phonological templates, we explored how systematicity based on such templates, whether they encode meanings or not, influenced word learning in preschool-age Hebrew-speaking children. We examined form-meaning systematicity, where words share phonological templates and carry similar categorical meanings of manner-of-motion (e.g., finupál and bizudáx carry the meaning of skipping), and form-only systematicity, where words are phonologically similar but do not share a meaning (e.g., finupál and bizudáx belong to different categories of manner-of-motion). We aimed to discern how these systematicity types impact the learning of the meaning of the word as a whole, that is, the encoding of visual form combined with manner-of-motion. Using novel Semitic-like stimuli, our experiments demonstrated that different types of systematicity involve different effects on word learning. Experiment 1 showed that form-meaning systematicity hindered the learning of the manner-of-motion. In contrast, Experiment 2 revealed that form systematicity facilitated learning these features. The findings suggest a complex interplay of top-down and bottom-up processes in word learning, expanding our understanding of systematicity in word learning.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"183-204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061395","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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Child Consonant Harmony Revisited: The Role of Lexical Memory Constraints and Segment Repetition. 儿童辅音和谐：词汇记忆限制与词段重复的作用。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241297703

Mitsuhiko Ota

{"title":"Child Consonant Harmony Revisited: The Role of Lexical Memory Constraints and Segment Repetition.","authors":"Mitsuhiko Ota","doi":"10.1177/00238309241297703","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00238309241297703","url":null,"abstract":"Young children often produce non-target-like word forms in which non-adjacent consonants share a major place of articulation (e.g., [gɔgi] \"doggy\"). Termed child consonant harmony (CCH), this phenomenon has garnered considerable attention in the literature, primarily due to the apparent absence of analogous patterns in mature phonological systems. This study takes a close look at a potential account of CCH that is compatible with findings from adult word learning, serial recall, and phonological typology. According to this account, CCH is a response to memory pressure involved in remembering and retrieving multiple consonantal contrasts within a word. If this is the main motivation behind CCH, we would expect the resulting child forms to be biased toward full assimilation (i.e., consonant repetition) as it allows maximal reduction of phonolexical memory load. To test this prediction, children's productions of target words containing consonants that differ in both major place and manner were analyzed using two data sources: a single session sample from 40 children aged 1-2 years learning English, French, Finnish, Japanese, or Mandarin; and longitudinal samples from seven English-learning children between 1 and 3 years of age. Prevalence of consonant repetitions was robustly evidenced in early child forms, especially in those produced for target words with the structure CVCV(C). The results suggest that early word production is shaped by constraints on phonolexical memory.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":" ","pages":"155-182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12936160/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142774382","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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