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The effects of production training on speech perception in L2 learners of German

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101370

James M. Stratton

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Investigating interlanguages beyond categorical analyses: Prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of German

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101377

Simona Sbranna, Aviad Albert, Martine Grice

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Effects of individual aptitude on ultrasound biofeedback in non-native vowel production

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101390

Ching-Hung Lai , Chenhao Chiu

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Thai speakers time lexical tones to supralaryngeal articulatory events

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101389

Francesco Burroni , Sam Tilsen

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Contrast enhancement and the distribution of vowel duration in Japanese

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101386

Shin-ichiro Sano, Céleste Guillemot

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The contribution of the visual modality to vowel perception in native and non-native speakers

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101375

Sinéad M. Rankin, Maria-Josep Solé

{"title":"The contribution of the visual modality to vowel perception in native and non-native speakers","authors":"Sinéad M. Rankin, Maria-Josep Solé","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how visual cues impact the intelligibility of foreign-accented speech for native listeners. English CVC words with vowels involving salient (e.g., lip-spreading for /iː/) and non-salient visual cues (neutral lips for /ɪ/) produced by two French speakers and a native English control, were presented to native English listeners who identified the word heard. Tokens were presented in both auditory-only and audiovisual (AV) mode in cafeteria noise at −15 dB SNR. The visual cues analysed were lip spreading, lip rounding, jaw opening and tongue frontness in vowels, as well as lip-rounding in schwa. Visually salient cues improved vowel intelligibility, compared to non-visual cues, but the audiovisual benefit varied across vowel features and speaker groups. The presence of lip-spreading for /iː/ (vs /ɪ/) and jaw-opening for /æ/ (vs /ɪ/) enhanced intelligibility (i.e., larger AV benefit) for both speaker groups. However, compared to the English speaker, lip-rounding in /ɔː/ and /ə/ produced by French speakers(likely accompanied by lip protrusion) had a smaller, or negative AV benefit. These results suggest that the influence of L1 gestures on L2 production may reduce or negatively affect intelligibility. Furthermore, French productions of /ɑː/ exhibited unusually high AV benefits, suggesting an extreme jaw-opening for this vowel in an attempt to distinguish between L2 contrasts (/æ ʌ ɑː/) not present in the L1.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 101375"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143144890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children’s and adults’ production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101378

Felix Kpogo , Charles B. Chang

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Individual uniformity in phonetic imitation: Assessing the stability of individual variability across features and tasks 语音模仿中的个体一致性：评估跨特征和任务的个体变异性的稳定性

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101376

Jessamyn Schertz

{"title":"Individual uniformity in phonetic imitation: Assessing the stability of individual variability across features and tasks","authors":"Jessamyn Schertz","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101376","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101376","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Extensive individual variability has been reported in both spontaneous phonetic convergence and in explicit phonetic imitation tasks. This work tests the consistency of these individual patterns: are some individuals just globally more imitative, showing greater-than-average imitation regardless of the specific phone being imitated, and regardless of the type of imitation, or does an individual’s extent of imitation depend heavily on the phonetic content or the type of task? We examine the stability of individual variability in imitation of two types of subphonemic differences (VOT of voiceless stops and F2 of the vowels /æ/ and /u/), in two types of imitation tasks (implicit and explicit). We found that individuals' degree of imitation was significantly related across different phones within the same class (e.g., imitation of /p/ vs. /t/) in both implicit and explicit imitation tasks, but that individuals' degree of imitation of phones from different classes (e.g., imitation of stops vs. vowels) was only related in explicit, but not implicit, imitation. Findings are consistent with the idea that general cognitive or personality traits may govern individual variability in explicit imitation, but challenge the idea that they play any measurable role in predicting individual variability in implicit or spontaneous imitation. We also found a weak but significant correspondence between individual performance on the implicit and explicit imitation tasks, providing evidence that the two tasks rely on shared mechanisms, as well as a significant relationship between discrimination performance and explicit, but not implicit, imitation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 101376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142759395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Formant-based articulatory strategies: Characterisation and inter-speaker variability analysis 基于构音的发音策略：特征描述和说话者之间的差异分析

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101374

Antoine Serrurier, Christiane Neuschaefer-Rube

{"title":"Formant-based articulatory strategies: Characterisation and inter-speaker variability analysis","authors":"Antoine Serrurier, Christiane Neuschaefer-Rube","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Vowels are articulatorily characterised by the shape of the vocal tract and acoustically by their three lowest formants. The relationship between formant variations and articulatory variations is well documented. This study addresses the opposite problem: describing the main articulatory variations associated with the variations of single formants. A data-driven modelling-based approach was chosen for this purpose. Midsagittal vocal tract contours from the glottis to the lips for 532 vowels from 41 speakers of three different languages were obtained from MRI data. Corresponding formant values were obtained by acoustic modelling. For each speaker, linear regressions of the contours on the formant values were performed. It led to five articulatory components, characterising the vocal tract variations associated with variations of the first three formants and their differences. Inter-speaker variability was analysed by applying principal components analysis on the components in a second level of modelling. A correlation analysis of the resulting inter-speaker components with morphological features was performed to determine whether a speaker’s strategy could be driven by the morphology. Results show that the palate shape and the vertical pharyngeal height, related to the male–female difference, have a small influence on the speaker’s strategy. Associated Matlab code is publicly available.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 101374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142659520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Corrigendum to “Being clear about clear speech: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed, non-native-directed, and casual speech for L1- and L2-English listeners” [J. Phonet. 104 (2024) 101328]

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101373

Nicholas B. Aoki, Georgia Zellou

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