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Accommodation and Language Contact. 然而，语言接触的文献研究。

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241246200

Barbara Gili Fivela, Cinzia Avesani

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Acoustic and Articulatory Visual Feedback in Classroom L2 Vowel Remediation 课堂 L2元音矫正中的声学和发音视觉反馈

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231223736

Tanja Kocjančič, Tomáš Bořil, Susanna Hofmann

{"title":"Acoustic and Articulatory Visual Feedback in Classroom L2 Vowel Remediation","authors":"Tanja Kocjančič, Tomáš Bořil, Susanna Hofmann","doi":"10.1177/00238309231223736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309231223736","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents L2 vowel remediation in a classroom setting via two real-time visual feedback methods: articulatory ultrasound tongue imaging, which shows tongue shape and position, and a newly developed acoustic formant analyzer, which visualizes a point correlating with the combined effect of tongue position and lip rounding in a vowel quadrilateral. Ten Czech students of the Swedish language participated in the study. Swedish vowel production is difficult for Czech speakers since the languages differ significantly in their vowel systems. The students selected the vowel targets on their own and practiced in two classroom groups, with six students receiving two ultrasound training lessons, followed by one acoustic, and four students receiving two acoustic lessons, followed by one ultrasound. Audio data were collected pre-training, after the two sessions employing the first visual feedback method, and at post-training, allowing measuring Euclidean distance among selected groups of vowels and observing the direction of change within the vowel quadrilateral as a result of practice. Perception tests were performed before and after training, revealing that most learners perceived selected vowels correctly already before the practice. The study showed that both feedback methods can be successfully applied to L2 classroom learning, and both lead to the improvement in the pronunciation of the selected vowels, as well as the Swedish vowel set as a whole. However, ultrasound tongue imaging seems to have an advantage as it resulted in a greater number of improved targets.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140832586","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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Impact of Japanese L1 Rhythm on English L2 Speech 日语第一语言节奏对英语第二语言语音的影响

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1177/00238309241247210

Saya Kawase, Chris Davis, Jeesun Kim

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Bilinguals from Larynx to Lips: Exploring Bilingual Articulatory Strategies with Anatomic MRI Data 从喉咙到嘴唇的双语：利用核磁共振成像解剖数据探索双语发音策略

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Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/00238309231224790

Pierre Badin, Thomas R. Sawallis, Marija Tabain, Laurent Lamalle

{"title":"Bilinguals from Larynx to Lips: Exploring Bilingual Articulatory Strategies with Anatomic MRI Data","authors":"Pierre Badin, Thomas R. Sawallis, Marija Tabain, Laurent Lamalle","doi":"10.1177/00238309231224790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309231224790","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this article is to illustrate the use of MRI for exploring bi- and multi-lingual articulatory strategies. One male and one female speaker recorded sets of static midsagittal MRIs of the whole vocal tract, producing vowels as well as consonants in various vowel contexts in either the male’s two or the female’s three languages. Both speakers were native speakers of English (American and Australian English, respectively), and both were fluent L2 speakers of French. In addition, the female speaker was a heritage speaker of Croatian. Articulatory contours extracted from the MRIs were subsequently used at three progressively more compact and abstract levels of analysis. (1) Direct comparison of overlaid contours was used to assess whether phones analogous across L1 and L2 are similar or dissimilar, both overall and in specific vocal tract regions. (2) Consonant contour variability along the vocal tract due to vowel context was determined using dispersion ellipses and used to explore the variable resistance to coarticulation for non-analogous rhotics and analogous laterals in Australian, French, and Croatian. (3) Articulatory modeling was used to focus on specific articulatory gestures (tongue position and shape, lip protrusion, laryngeal height, etc.) and then to explore the articulatory strategies in the speakers’ interlanguages for production of the French front rounded vowel series. This revealed that the Australian and American speakers used different strategies to produce the non-analogous French vowel series. We conclude that MRI-based articulatory data constitute a very rich and underused source of information that amply deserves applications to the study of L2 articulation and bilingual and multi-lingual speech.","PeriodicalId":51255,"journal":{"name":"Language and Speech","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140832521","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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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

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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

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

Margaret Kehoe

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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。

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

Shuwen Chen, D H Whalen, Peggy Pik Ki Mok

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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。

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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。

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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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