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Perception and production of Mandarin-Accented English: The effect of degree of Accentedness on the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit for Listeners (ISIB-L) and Talkers (ISIB-T) 普通话口音英语的感知与产生:口音程度对听者(ISIB-L)和说话者(ISIB-T)中介语言语可理解性的影响

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101255

Sheyenne Fishero, Joan A. Sereno, Allard Jongman

{"title":"Perception and production of Mandarin-Accented English: The effect of degree of Accentedness on the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit for Listeners (ISIB-L) and Talkers (ISIB-T)","authors":"Sheyenne Fishero, Joan A. Sereno, Allard Jongman","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101255","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous research on the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit (ISIB) indicates nonnative listeners may have an advantage at understanding nonnative speech of talkers with the same first language (L1) due to shared interlanguage knowledge. The present study offers a comprehensive analysis of various factors that may modulate this advantage, including the proficiency of both the listeners and the talkers, the mapping of phonemes between the L1 and second language (L2), and the acoustic properties of the phones. Accuracy scores on a lexical decision task were used to investigate both native English listeners’ and native Mandarin learners’ of English perception of native English and Mandarin-accented English speech. Results show clear ISIB-L and ISIB-T effects and demonstrate the dynamic nature of ISIB effects, with both being modulated by speaker and listener proficiency. More striking ISIB effects typically occur at the most extreme ends of accentedness. Additionally, an advantage for common-phoneme over unique-phoneme words in nonnative speech was observed. While nonnative productions of common-phoneme words are more accurate than those of unique-phoneme words, for the most accented productions, nonnative listeners are faster to respond to these unique, often mispronounced, productions.</p><p>The nonnative listener advantage at perceiving nonnative speech depends on various factors, including listener proficiency, speaker proficiency, phoneme characteristics, and the acoustics of specific speech tokens.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101255"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49756588","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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Gestural characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English 澳洲英语中元音长度对比的手势特征

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101237

Louise Ratko, Michael Proctor, Felicity Cox

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Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical issues in sociophonetics 21世纪语音学的进展:社会语音学的理论问题

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101226

Tyler Kendall , Nicolai Pharao , Jane Stuart-Smith , Charlotte Vaughn

{"title":"Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical issues in sociophonetics","authors":"Tyler Kendall , Nicolai Pharao , Jane Stuart-Smith , Charlotte Vaughn","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101226","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Variation in speech has always been important to phonetic theory, but takes centerstage in the growing area of sociophonetics, which places the role of the social at the heart of the theoretical and methodological enterprise. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of key advances and theoretical issues in sociophonetic research, in both production and perception. It reviews the foundations of sociophonetics in phonetics and sociolinguistics, and articulates several major theoretical questions that run through sociophonetic work, as well as the nature of evidence and methods in sociophonetics. It explores the many factors that underpin variation and change within individuals, such as speech accommodation and speech style, and major factors that organize group-level variation and change, including regional affiliation, social class, sex, gender, and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and age. By connecting sociophonetic research to a wide range of areas, from cognition to indexicality, the paper synthesizes cross-cutting themes from prior research, and highlights current and future directions for the field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101226"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49766315","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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Analysis and computational modelling of Emirati Arabic intonation – A preliminary study 阿联酋阿拉伯语语调的分析与计算模型初步研究

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101236

Muhammad Swaileh A. Alzaidi , Yi Xu , Anqi Xu , Marta Szreder

{"title":"Analysis and computational modelling of Emirati Arabic intonation – A preliminary study","authors":"Muhammad Swaileh A. Alzaidi , Yi Xu , Anqi Xu , Marta Szreder","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101236","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study is a preliminary investigation of intonation in Emirati Arabic (EA) (an under-researched Arabic dialect), using systematic acoustic analysis and computational modelling. First, we investigated the prosodic realisation of information focus and contrastive focus at sentence-initial, -penultimate and -final positions. The analysis of 1980 EA utterances produced by eleven EA native speakers revealed that (1) in focused words, only contrastive focus is realised with expanded excursion size, longer duration, and stronger intensity relative to their neutral focus counterparts, (2) post-focus words have a lower <em>f</em><sub>0</sub> and weaker intensity in both contrastive focus and information focus, and (3) pre-focus words have compressed excursion size and relatively short duration. We then used computational modelling to test how much of the EA intonation could be captured by the PENTA model, with focus-defined functional categories and a number of other, putative categories. PENTAtrainer was trained on syllable-sized multi-functional targets from a subset of the production data. The model then generated <em>f</em><sub>0</sub> contours with the learned targets and imposed them on resynthesised speech for perceptual evaluation. A comparison of the model-generated <em>f</em><sub>0</sub> contours with the natural <em>f</em><sub>0</sub> contours showed that not only focus but also weight, stress, position of word-level stressed syllable and prosodic word are important factors determining the fine details of EA intonation. A perceptual test with native EA listeners showed that the synthetic EA <em>f</em><sub>0</sub> contours sounded nearly as natural as the original intonation, and could convey focus nearly as accurately as natural intonation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101236"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49754537","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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Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical and empirical issues in the phonetics of sound change 21世纪的语音学进展:语音变化的语音学理论与实证问题

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101228

Patrice Speeter Beddor

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Revisiting the nasal continuum hypothesis: A study of French nasals in continuous speech 重访鼻部连续假说:法语鼻音在连续讲话中的研究

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101244

Gillian de Boer , Jahurul Islam , Charissa Purnomo , Linda Wu , Bryan Gick

{"title":"Revisiting the nasal continuum hypothesis: A study of French nasals in continuous speech","authors":"Gillian de Boer , Jahurul Islam , Charissa Purnomo , Linda Wu , Bryan Gick","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Speech sounds are generally classified as either nasal or oral, with the velopharyngeal opening (VPO) characterized as simply open or closed. This account contrasts with clinical perspectives, in which the degree of VPO is described as being more continuous. An examination of laboratory studies of French suggests a third possibility, in which the VPO may have multiple distinct degrees of opening. Based on this limited literature we predicted that the VPO of Québécois French would be largest for speech pauses, then in descending order, phonemically nasal vowels, nasal consonants, contextually nasal vowels (with carryover being larger than anticipatory), and finally oral sounds. We analyzed full sentences read by nine speakers of Québécois French from the Université Laval X-ray videofluorography database. The films were annotated, and degrees of VPO were measured from the sagittal projections of the vocal tract. We found evidence for most of the proposed distinctive VPO targets in Québécois French, with the exception that anticipatory nasalization led to greater VPO than carryover nasalization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49727848","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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Sound change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Investigation into the actuation and propagation of post-aspiration 西安达卢西亚西班牙语的声音变化:对后吸音驱动和传播的调查

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101238

Nicholas Henriksen , Amber Galvano , Micha Fischer

{"title":"Sound change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Investigation into the actuation and propagation of post-aspiration","authors":"Nicholas Henriksen , Amber Galvano , Micha Fischer","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101238","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the actuation and propagation of sound change in Western Andalusian Spanish (WAS) by examining the change from pre- to post-aspiration in intervocalic /s/ + voiceless stop sequences (i.e., /sp st sk/). We collected read-speech data from 30 WAS speakers and 30 comparison speakers of North-Central Peninsular Spanish (NCPS). The results show that the shift toward post-aspiration is most advanced in /st/-words, as compared to /sp/- and /sk/-words, which we take as evidence that actuation likely occurred in the coronal context. We additionally demonstrate how post-aspiration is integrating into the wider WAS sound system: (i) post-aspirated stops undergo closure voicing in a fashion akin to plain stops; and (ii) the post-aspirated pattern is now emerging in phonological environments that historically lacked coda-/s/, namely in the stop + /t/ context. An important contribution of this study concerns the likely role played by the coronal context (i.e., /st/-words) during both the actuation and propagation stages of the sound change. We situate the findings within frameworks suggesting that actuation and propagation are systematically connected phases of sound change rather than wholly independent processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49754731","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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Prominence and intonation in Singapore English 新加坡英语的突出和语调

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101240

Adam J. Chong , James S. German

{"title":"Prominence and intonation in Singapore English","authors":"Adam J. Chong , James S. German","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101240","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous work on Singapore English prosody has focused largely on establishing the acoustic correlates of lexical stress and examining where the language falls within a rhythm-class typology. Little attention, however, has been paid to how lexical prominence, if present, interacts with phrasal prominence. In this study, we examine the extent to which f0 realizations vary across lexical items with differing stress patterns, while taking into account that prosodic phrasing requirements necessitate an f0 rise to the phrase-final syllable. We show that across target types of varying stress placement, syllable length, and constituency, f0 realizations are highly consistent, involving a rise from the start of the target word or phrase which culminates with a peak on the phrase-final syllable. The location of lexical prominence is the primary influence on the scaling of f0 across the entire target, with stress-initial targets having a higher mean f0. Exploratory analysis of duration and intensity measures further corroborates the prominence-lending nature of the phrase-final syllable, with some evidence for marking of prominence on non-final lexically stressed syllables. The findings support the primarily post-lexical role that f0 plays in marking phrase edges, instead of lexical heads, in Singapore English, in line with a previously proposed AM model of Singapore English intonation. The implications of these findings for the study of prosodic typology and sociolinguistic variation in Singapore English are also discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101240"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49754240","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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Phonetic differences between nouns and verbs in their typical syntactic positions in a tonal language: Evidence from disyllabic noun–verb ambiguous words in Standard Mandarin Chinese 调性语言中名词和动词在其典型句法位置上的语音差异:来自标准汉语双音节名动歧义词的证据

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101241

Qibin Ran , Kai Gao , Yuzhu Liang , Quansheng Xia , Søren Wichmann

{"title":"Phonetic differences between nouns and verbs in their typical syntactic positions in a tonal language: Evidence from disyllabic noun–verb ambiguous words in Standard Mandarin Chinese","authors":"Qibin Ran , Kai Gao , Yuzhu Liang , Quansheng Xia , Søren Wichmann","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates how word categories, namely noun and verb, influence acoustic realizations (duration, F0, intensity) in Standard Mandarin Chinese, a language having phonemically distinctive tones and a simple morphological system. Noun-verb ambiguous words were selected and presented in the final positions of typical syntactic contexts in order to avoid the interference of prosodic boundary, syntactic complexity, contextual predictability, tonal environment, F0 range and syllable properties (consonant, vowel, tone, syllable length). Linear mixed models were fitted to duration, and generative additive mixed models were fitted to F0 and intensity. The results showed that phonetic differences between nouns and verbs were still evident in duration, F0 and intensity after lexical frequency, speech rate and some other related factors were taken into consideration in the models. The second syllables of nouns were longer than those of verbs, and both syllables of nouns were higher in F0 and greater in intensity than those of verbs. Since the prosodic boundary, frequency and other factors were controlled for, the phonetic differences between nouns and verbs might be attributed to their differences in information load and number of syllables. This study provided evidence that phonetic differences between nouns and verbs might be driven by the grammatical classes themselves and is not an epiphenomenon of other processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101241"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49754239","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 change in breathy voice after tone split: A production study of Suzhou Wu Chinese 分音后呼吸声的变化:苏州吴语生产研究

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Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101239

Chunyu Ge , Wenwei Xu , Wentao Gu , Peggy Pik Ki Mok

{"title":"The change in breathy voice after tone split: A production study of Suzhou Wu Chinese","authors":"Chunyu Ge , Wenwei Xu , Wentao Gu , Peggy Pik Ki Mok","doi":"10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101239","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In some languages, breathy voice plays a pivotal role in tone split. After tone split, breathy voice can undergo further changes. Suzhou Wu Chinese used to have a voicing contrast in initial obstruents, which has transphonologized to a tone contrast and resulted in a two-way tone split, with breathy voice in the low register tones. This study investigates the change in breathy voice after the tone split in Suzhou Wu with apparent-time data from speakers from three age groups. Simultaneous audio and electroglottographic recordings were collected. Principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis conducted on the acoustic measurements indicate that breathy voice is used less by younger speakers. Generalized Additive Mixed Models were conducted to reveal the changes in breathy voice during the time course of the vowel with regard to different low register tones. It is also found that T2 and T8 are undergoing a decrease in breathy voice with tone changes, but breathy voice is decreasing without tone change in T6. Younger female speakers are ahead of younger male speakers in the decrease in breathy voice. This paper provides a valuable investigation of the change in breathy voice after tone split and contributes to our understanding of the development of phonation types.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phonetics","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101239"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49754734","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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