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An acoustic study of rhythmic synchronization with natural English speech 自然英语语音节奏同步的声学研究

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101263

Tamara Rathcke , Chia-Yuan Lin

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Cognitive factors in nonnative phonetic learning: Impacts of inhibitory control and working memory on the benefits and costs of talker variability 非母语语音学习中的认知因素:抑制控制和工作记忆对说话人变异性的收益和成本的影响

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101266

Xiaojuan Zhang , Bing Cheng , Yu Zou , Xujia Li , Yang Zhang

{"title":"Cognitive factors in nonnative phonetic learning: Impacts of inhibitory control and working memory on the benefits and costs of talker variability","authors":"Xiaojuan Zhang , Bing Cheng , Yu Zou , Xujia Li , Yang Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101266","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Talker variability has been reported to facilitate generalization and retention of speech learning, but is also shown to place demands on cognitive resources. Our recent study provided evidence that phonetically-irrelevant acoustic variability in single-talker (ST) speech is sufficient to induce equivalent amounts of learning to the use of multiple-talker (MT) training. This study is a follow-up contrasting MT versus ST training with varying degrees of temporal exaggeration to examine how cognitive measures of individual learners may influence the role of input variability in immediate learning and long-term retention. Native Chinese-speaking adults were trained on the English /i/-/ɪ/ contrast. We assessed the trainees’ working memory and inhibition control before training. The two trained groups showed comparable long-term retention of training effects in terms of word identification performance and more native-like cue weighting in both perception and production regardless of talker variability condition. The results demonstrate the role of phonetically-irrelevant variability in robust speech learning and modulatory functions of nonlinguistic domain-general inhibitory control and working memory, highlighting the necessity to consider the interaction between input characteristics, task difficulty, and individual differences in cognitive abilities in assessing learning outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101266"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49766707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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An acoustic study of rhythmic synchronization with natural English speech 自然英语语音节奏同步的声学研究

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101263

Tamara Rathcke, Chia-Yuan Lin

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Phonetic variation in English infant-directed speech: A large-scale corpus analysis 英语婴儿指向语的语音变异:大规模语料库分析

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101267

Ekaterina A. Khlystova , Adam J. Chong , Megha Sundara

{"title":"Phonetic variation in English infant-directed speech: A large-scale corpus analysis","authors":"Ekaterina A. Khlystova , Adam J. Chong , Megha Sundara","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101267","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Learning sound categories is central to language acquisition – but we know little about the extent of phonetic variability in the learner’s input. In this study, we phonetically annotated coronal segments (/t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, and /n/) in a corpus of naturalistic American English infant-directed speech (IDS). We did not find evidence that IDS is consistently more canonical than adult-directed speech (ADS), challenging the notion of IDS as a learning register. While IDS is not more canonical than ADS overall, the canonical form was nonetheless the most frequent form in IDS for all segments except /t/. We also considered how infants may move beyond the task of identifying the canonical form to how they may learn to cluster allophones; for this purpose, we quantified the dissimilarity in the phonological environments of the variants in question. Lastly, we investigated a case in which the overwhelming majority of instantiations were <em>not</em> canonical – word-final <em>t</em> and <em>d –</em> and demonstrated that morphologically-conditioned suffixes were more canonical than other word final segments. This corpus is a vital step towards understanding how infants can learn to categorize sounds from their input and will be an invaluable tool for future sociolinguistic, computational and theoretical modeling of language learning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101267"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49756382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Do children better understand adults or themselves? An acoustic and perceptual study of the complex sibilant system of Polish 孩子更了解大人还是自己?波兰语复杂发声系统的声学与感性研究

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101227

Marzena Żygis , Daniel Pape , Marek Jaskuła , Laura L. Koenig

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Phonetic variation in English infant-directed speech: A large-scale corpus analysis 英语婴儿指向语的语音变异:大规模语料库分析

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101267

Ekaterina A. Khlystova, Adam J. Chong, Megha Sundara

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Advancement of phonetics in the 21st century: Exemplar models of speech production 21世纪语音学的发展:语音产生的范例模型

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101254

Matthew Goldrick, Jennifer Cole

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Second dialect acquisition and phonetic vowel reduction in the American Midwest 美国中西部第二方言习得与语音元音弱化

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101243

Cynthia G. Clopper , Rachel Steindel Burdin , Rory Turnbull

{"title":"Second dialect acquisition and phonetic vowel reduction in the American Midwest","authors":"Cynthia G. Clopper , Rachel Steindel Burdin , Rory Turnbull","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Geographic mobility can lead to the acquisition of new regional dialect features. This second dialect acquisition is highly variable across individuals and is affected by a range of linguistic and social factors. The realization of dialect-specific features is also affected by linguistic variables related to phonetic reduction, but this interaction has been primarily examined with a mix of mobile and non-mobile participants. In the current study, second dialect acquisition by Midwestern American young adults and its interaction with phonetic reduction processes was examined. Relative to lifetime residents of the Northern and Midland regions of American English, some Northern transplants to the Midland region exhibited second dialect acquisition and others exhibited maintenance of Northern dialect features. All talkers showed phonetic reduction due to lexical frequency, phonological neighborhood density, discourse mention, semantic predictability, and speaking style. These phonetic reduction processes only weakly interacted with dialect variation, such that less phonetic reduction was observed overall when it was potentially in conflict with dialect-specific vowel features. Taken together, the results provide additional evidence for substantial individual variation in second dialect acquisition, but limited evidence of an effect of second dialect acquisition on the interaction between dialect variation and phonetic reduction processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49756402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 perceptual center in Mandarin Chinese syllables 汉语音节的知觉中心

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101245

Yu-Jung Lin , Kenneth de Jong

{"title":"The perceptual center in Mandarin Chinese syllables","authors":"Yu-Jung Lin , Kenneth de Jong","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores the location of the p-center in Mandarin Chinese and factors that influence it. Previous research has suggested that p-center behavior in languages that lack obstruent clusters, such as Cantonese and Mandarin, will differ from that found in Indo-European languages and others that are typologically different from Chinese languages. The purposes of the current paper are to investigate (1) whether Chinese languages systematically have a different p-center location from that found in previous studies of Indo-European languages, (2) whether vowel onglides are included as part of the syllable rime as claimed in the assumed analysis of Mandarin, and (3) how the alignment of the p-center is influenced by different features of the initial consonant, different features of rime, as well as the speech rates. Six native Mandarin speakers from Taiwan participated in a syllable repetition task with two different speech rates: 60 bpm and 120 bpm. The results indicate that the p-center in Mandarin Chinese is roughly aligned with the acoustic vowel onset, when the syllable does not have an onglide, and the onglide onset, when the syllable has an onglide. The initial consonant manner did not significantly influence onglide or vowel onsets, but the initial consonant acoustic duration, rimes, and speech rates all significantly influenced the vowel onsets as previous p-center studies have found. This appears to differ markedly from the p-center found in a recent study of Cantonese. Various causes for this mismatch are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49756404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Unstressed vowel reduction and contrast neutralisation in western and eastern Bulgarian: A current appraisal 非重读元音减少和对比中和在西部和东部保加利亚:目前的评估

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101242

Mitko Sabev

{"title":"Unstressed vowel reduction and contrast neutralisation in western and eastern Bulgarian: A current appraisal","authors":"Mitko Sabev","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101242","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although Bulgarian frequently appears in discussions of vowel reduction, the vowel changes and contrast neutralisation that occur in Bulgarian unstressed syllables are often not well understood and misrepresented in the literature. I report the results of an acoustic study of stressed and unstressed vowels in two present-day varieties of Bulgarian, from the West and the East of Bulgaria. The dialects differ with respect to the magnitude of reduction (how changed unstressed vowels are), its generalisation (which vowels are affected), and the resultant neutralisation patterns; overall, reduction is stronger in the eastern variety. A number of long-standing claims about Bulgarian phonology are disproven, notably that there is less reduction in immediately pretonic than in other unstressed syllables, that high vowels are lowered in unstressed position, and that western Bulgarian reduction is necessarily gradient. I further demonstrate that, although implicationally related, reduction proper (i.e. systematic differences between stressed and unstressed vowels), its potential phonologisation, and contrast neutralisation are distinct aspects of the traditional notion of ‘vowel reduction’, each of which can be fruitfully examined in its own right.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101242"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49756406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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