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Phonetica Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1515/phon-2024-2002

Oliver Niebuhr

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What R Mandarin Chinese /ɹ/s? - acoustic and articulatory features of Mandarin Chinese rhotics. 什么是汉语普通话/ɹ/s？- 汉语普通话"/ɹ/s "的声学和发音特点。

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Phonetica Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Print Date: 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-0023

Shuwen Chen, Douglas H Whalen, Peggy Pik Ki Mok

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The development of English language connected speech perception skills: an empirical study on Chinese EFL children. 英语语言连接言语感知能力的发展：对中国 EFL 儿童的实证研究。

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Phonetica Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Print Date: 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-0049

Huichao Bi, Samad Zare, Rong Yan

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Hiatus resolution and linguistic diversity in Australian English. 澳大利亚英语中的间歇解决和语言多样性。

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Phonetica Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Print Date: 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-0029

Joshua Penney, Felicity Cox, Andy Gibson

{"title":"Hiatus resolution and linguistic diversity in Australian English.","authors":"Joshua Penney, Felicity Cox, Andy Gibson","doi":"10.1515/phon-2023-0029","DOIUrl":"10.1515/phon-2023-0029","url":null,"abstract":"Vowel hiatus is typically resolved in Australian English through complementary strategies of liaison (j-gliding/w-gliding/linking-r) and glottalisation. Previous work suggests a change in progress towards increased use of glottalisation as an optimal hiatus-breaker, which creates syntagmatic contrast between adjacent vowels, particularly when the right-edge vowel is strong (i.e. at the foot boundary). Liaison continues to be used when right-edge vowels are weak, but glottalisation as a hiatus resolution strategy in general appears to be increasing and may be more common in speakers from non-English speaking backgrounds raising the question of whether exposure to linguistic diversity could be driving the change. We examine hiatus resolution in speakers from neighbourhoods that vary according to levels of language diversity. We elicited gliding and linking-r hiatus contexts to determine how prosodic strength of flanking vowels and speakers' exposure to linguistic diversity affect hiatus resolution. Results confirm that glottalisation occurs most frequently with strong right-edge vowels, and gliding/linking-r are more likely with weak right-edge vowels. However, strategies differ between gliding and linking-r contexts, suggesting differing implementation mechanisms. In addition, speakers from ethnolinguistically diverse areas produce increased glottalisation in all contexts supporting the idea that change to the hiatus resolution system may be driven by language contact.","PeriodicalId":55608,"journal":{"name":"Phonetica","volume":" ","pages":"119-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139974752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 effects of watching subtitled videos on the perception of L2 connected speech by L1 Chinese-L2 English speakers. 观看字幕视频对第一语言为汉语、第二语言为英语的人感知第二语言连贯语音的影响。

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Phonetica Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Print Date: 2024-06-25 DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-0011

Yanjiao Zhu, Jiehui Hu

{"title":"The effects of watching subtitled videos on the perception of L2 connected speech by L1 Chinese-L2 English speakers.","authors":"Yanjiao Zhu, Jiehui Hu","doi":"10.1515/phon-2023-0011","DOIUrl":"10.1515/phon-2023-0011","url":null,"abstract":"The current study explores whether watching subtitled videos could facilitate L1 Chinese-L2 English speakers' perception of L2 English connected speech. Three hundred ninty seven Chinese college students of L2 English completed a video-based spot dictation task after watching English videos with or without L1/L2 subtitles, featuring various connected speech types (e.g., linking, deletion, and their combinations). Results suggested an overall facilitation effect of watching videos on L2 connected speech perception, which was modulated by proficiency, subtitle form, and the complexity of connected speech. First, subtitled videos were more facilitative than non-subtitled videos in L2 perception. Second, participants with higher L2 proficiency better perceived English connected speech than those with lower proficiency. Third, the more connective devices an item used, the more difficult it was for L2 perception. When this complexity was controlled, the L2 perception was not influenced by connected speech type. Finally, the complexity of connected speech also mediated the subtitle facilitation effects. When the connected speech involved triple connective devices, L2 speakers benefited more from L1 subtitles than L2 subtitles. The findings can provide insights into multi-modal speech perception and English connected speech learning.","PeriodicalId":55608,"journal":{"name":"Phonetica","volume":" ","pages":"351-379"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139742785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Dynamic specification of vowels in Hijazi Arabic. 希贾兹阿拉伯语元音的动态规范。

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Phonetica Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Print Date: 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-0013

Wael Almurashi, Jalal Al-Tamimi, Ghada Khattab

{"title":"Dynamic specification of vowels in Hijazi Arabic.","authors":"Wael Almurashi, Jalal Al-Tamimi, Ghada Khattab","doi":"10.1515/phon-2023-0013","DOIUrl":"10.1515/phon-2023-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Research on various languages shows that dynamic approaches to vowel acoustics - in particular Vowel-Inherent Spectral Change (VISC) - can play a vital role in characterising and classifying monophthongal vowels compared with a static model. This study's aim was to investigate whether dynamic cues also allow for better description and classification of the Hijazi Arabic (HA) vowel system, a phonological system based on both temporal and spectral distinctions. Along with static and dynamic F1 and F2 patterns, we evaluated the extent to which vowel duration, F0, and F3 contribute to increased/decreased discriminability among vowels. Data were collected from 20 native HA speakers (10 females and 10 males) producing eight HA monophthongal vowels in a word list with varied consonantal contexts. Results showed that dynamic cues provide further insights regarding HA vowels that are not normally gleaned from static measures alone. Using discriminant analysis, the dynamic cues (particularly the seven-point model) had relatively higher classification rates, and vowel duration was found to play a significant role as an additional cue. Our results are in line with dynamic approaches and highlight the importance of looking beyond static cues and beyond the first two formants for further insights into the description and classification of vowel systems.","PeriodicalId":55608,"journal":{"name":"Phonetica","volume":" ","pages":"185-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139736849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 letters matter? The influence of spelling on acoustic duration. 字母重要吗？拼写对声音持续时间的影响

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Phonetica Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Print Date: 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-0012

Julia Muschalik, Gero Kunter

{"title":"Do letters matter? The influence of spelling on acoustic duration.","authors":"Julia Muschalik, Gero Kunter","doi":"10.1515/phon-2023-0012","DOIUrl":"10.1515/phon-2023-0012","url":null,"abstract":"The present article describes a modified and extended replication of a corpus study by Brewer (2008. Phonetic reflexes of orthographic characteristics in lexical representation. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona PhD thesis) which reports differences in the acoustic duration of homophonous but heterographic sounds. The original findings point to a quantity effect of spelling on acoustic duration, i.e., the more letters are used to spell a sound, the longer the sound's duration. Such a finding would have extensive theoretical implications and necessitate more research on how exactly spelling would come to influence speech production. However, the effects found by Brewer (2008) did not consistently reach statistical significance and the analysis did not include many of the covariates which are known by now to influence segment duration, rendering the robustness of the results at least questionable. Employing a more nuanced operationalization of graphemic units and a more advanced statistical analysis, the current replication fails to find the reported effect of letter quantity. Instead, we find an effect of graphemic complexity. Speakers realize consonants that do not have a visible graphemic correlate with shorter durations: the /s/ in tux is shorter that the /s/ in fuss. The effect presumably resembles orthographic visibility effects found in perception. In addition, our results highlight the need for a more rigorous approach to replicability in linguistics.","PeriodicalId":55608,"journal":{"name":"Phonetica","volume":" ","pages":"221-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138812060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Perception of illusory clusters: the role of native timing. 错觉集群的感知:原生时间的作用。

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Phonetica Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Print Date: 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-2005

Harim Kwon, Ioana Chitoran

{"title":"Perception of illusory clusters: the role of native timing.","authors":"Harim Kwon, Ioana Chitoran","doi":"10.1515/phon-2023-2005","DOIUrl":"10.1515/phon-2023-2005","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the influence of native timing patterns on nonnative speech perception, by asking whether a nonnative CVCV sequence can be perceived as CCV when the temporal organization of nonnative CVCV is similar to native CCV. To explore this question, Georgian listeners are tested on a CCa-CVCá discrimination in French. Georgian has a rich word-onset cluster inventory, with component consonants loosely timed. The loose timing often, though not always, results in a schwa-like CC transition. French, the stimulus language, exhibits tighter timing in biconsonantal clusters, no vocalic transitions, and a reduced non-prominent first vowel in CVCá sequences. We hypothesize that the cross-language difference in inter-consonantal timing can facilitate the perception of an illusory cluster when Georgian listeners hear French CVCá. The findings reveal such perceptual confusion, particularly in the CCa-CøCá contrast in which the nonnative /ø/ is phonetically similar to the CC transition in Georgian, both in terms of temporal organizations and tongue shape. This confirms the possibility of illusory clusters, which is consistent with the interpretation that Georgian listeners utilize their knowledge of how word-onset CC clusters are temporally implemented in their native language when responding to the task. We propose that the timing pattern may constitute language-specific knowledge and that it can influence the perceptual assimilation patterns in nonnative speech perception.","PeriodicalId":55608,"journal":{"name":"Phonetica","volume":" ","pages":"153-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138447205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Phonetica Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-frontmatter5

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Danish 20-month-olds' recognition of familiar words with and without consonant and vowel mispronunciations. 丹麦20个月大的孩子对熟悉单词的识别，包括辅音和元音发音错误。

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Phonetica Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Print Date: 2023-10-26 DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-2001

Anders Højen, Thomas O Madsen, Dorthe Bleses

{"title":"Danish 20-month-olds' recognition of familiar words with and without consonant and vowel mispronunciations.","authors":"Anders Højen, Thomas O Madsen, Dorthe Bleses","doi":"10.1515/phon-2023-2001","DOIUrl":"10.1515/phon-2023-2001","url":null,"abstract":"Although several studies initially supported the proposal by Nespor et al. (Nespor, Marina, Marcela Peña & Jacques Mehler. 2003. On the different roles of vowels and consonants in speech processing and language acquisition. Lingue e Linguaggio 2. 221-247) that consonants are more informative than vowels in lexical processing, a more complex picture has emerged from recent research. Current evidence suggests that infants initially show a vowel bias in lexical processing and later transition to a consonant bias, possibly depending on the characteristics of the ambient language. Danish infants have shown a vowel bias in word learning at 20 months-an age at which infants learning French or Italian no longer show a vowel bias but rather a consonant bias, and infants learning English show no bias. The present study tested whether Danish 20-month-olds also have a vowel bias when recognizing familiar words. Specifically, using the Intermodal Preferential Looking paradigm, we tested whether Danish infants were more likely to ignore or accept consonant than vowel mispronunciations when matching familiar words with pictures. The infants successfully matched correctly pronounced familiar words with pictures but showed no vowel or consonant bias when matching mispronounced words with pictures. The lack of a bias for Danish vowels or consonants in familiar word recognition adds to evidence that lexical processing biases are language-specific and may additionally depend on developmental age and perhaps task difficulty.","PeriodicalId":55608,"journal":{"name":"Phonetica","volume":" ","pages":"309-328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9992797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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