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Kleber, Felicitas; Harrington, Jonathan; Reubold, Ulrich – Language and Speech, 2012
The present study is concerned with lax /[upsilon]/-fronting in Standard British English and in particular with whether this sound change in progress can be attributed to a waning of the perceptual compensation for the coarticulatory effects of context. Younger and older speakers produced various monosyllables in which /[upsilon]/ occurred in…
Descriptors: Age, Speech, Language Variation, Auditory Perception
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Scharinger, Mathias; Lahiri, Aditi – Language and Speech, 2010
This study examines the role of abstractness during the activation of a lexical representation. Abstractness and conflict are directly modeled in our approach by invoking lexical representations in terms of contrastive phonological features. In two priming experiments with English nouns differing only in vowel height of their stem vowels (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Dialects, Vowels, Phonology, Nouns
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Neijt, Anneke; Schreuder, Robert – Language and Speech, 2007
Creating compound nouns is the most productive process of Dutch morphology, with an interesting pattern of form variation. For instance, "staat" "nation" simply combines with "kunde" "art" ("staatkunde" "political science, statesmanship"), but needs a linking element "s" or…
Descriptors: Syllables, Nouns, Language Processing, Indo European Languages
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McQueen, James M.; Norris, Dennis; Cutler, Anne – Language and Speech, 2006
The speech perception system must be flexible in responding to the variability in speech sounds caused by differences among speakers and by language change over the lifespan of the listener. Indeed, listeners use lexical knowledge to retune perception of novel speech (Norris, McQueen, & Cutler, 2003). In that study, Dutch listeners made…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Language Variation, Auditory Perception, Word Recognition