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Alexeeva, Svetlana; Frolova, Anastasia; Slioussar, Natalia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The Possible Word Constraint, or PWC, is a speech segmentation principle prohibiting to postulate word boundaries if a remaining segment contains only consonants. The PWC was initially formulated for English where all words contain a vowel and claimed to hold universally after being confirmed for various other languages. However, it is crucial to…
Descriptors: Russian, Psycholinguistics, Speech Communication, Phonemes
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Biau, Emmanuel; Fromont, Lauren A.; Soto-Faraco, Salvador – Language Learning, 2018
We tested the prosodic hypothesis that the temporal alignment of a speaker's beat gestures in a sentence influences syntactic parsing by driving the listener's attention. Participants chose between two possible interpretations of relative-clause (RC) ambiguous sentences, while their electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. We manipulated the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Hypothesis Testing
Park, Dongwoo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation is concerned with how elliptical sentences are generated. To be specific, I investigate when and in what module ellipsis occurs, and what is elided as a result of ellipsis. With regard to the first research question, I propose that XP ellipsis occurs as soon as all the featural requirements of the licensor of XP ellipsis are…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Research, Phonology, Phrase Structure
Lu, Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines the interface between music and language in "Huju", which is a Shanghai dialect based regional opera. Chapter I is a short introduction. Chapter II presents a thorough review of the studies on linguistic tone and music tune, and provides descriptive background information about "Huju" and Shanghai…
Descriptors: Music, Intonation, Dialects, Linguistic Theory
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Bazarbayeva, Zeynep M.; Zhalalova, Akshay M.; Ormakhanova, Yenlik N.; Ospangaziyeva, Nazgul B.; Karbozova, Bulbul D. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The purpose of this research is to analyze the speech intonation of the French, Kazakh, English and Russian languages. The study considers intonation component functions (of melodics, duration, and intensity) in poetry and language spoken. It is defined that a set of prosodic means are used in order to convey the intonational specifics of sounding…
Descriptors: Intonation, Turkic Languages, Language Research, Speech Communication
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Cabrelli Amaro, Jennifer – Second Language Research, 2017
This study tests the hypothesis that late first-language English / second-language Spanish learners (L1 English / L2 Spanish learners) acquire spirantization in stages according to the prosodic hierarchy (Zampini, 1997, 1998). In Spanish, voiced stops [b d g] surface after a pause or nasal stop, and continuants [ß? ð? ??] surface postvocalically,…
Descriptors: Intonation, Case Studies, Native Language, English
Kaden, Christiane – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Many languages have processes which lengthen or shorten a vowel or consonant. In this dissertation, I concentrate on Open Syllable Lengthening, Closed Syllable Shortening, Monosyllabic Lengthening and Trochaic Lengthening, and present a formal model which captures these lengthenings and shortening as the insertion, deletion or reassignment of a…
Descriptors: German, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Syllables
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Pearl, Lisa – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
Generative approaches to language have long recognized the natural link between theories of knowledge representation and theories of knowledge acquisition. The basic idea is that the knowledge representations provided by Universal Grammar enable children to acquire language as reliably as they do because these representations highlight the…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Computational Linguistics
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Hirose, Yuki; Mazuka, Reiko – Language Learning and Development, 2017
A noun can be potentially ambiguous as to whether it is a head on its own, or is a modifier of a Noun + Noun compound waiting for its head. This study investigates whether young children can exploit the prosodic information on a modifier constituent preceding the head to facilitate resolution of such ambiguity in Japanese. Evidence from English…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Intonation, Phonology, Suprasegmentals
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Gutman, Ariel; Dautriche, Isabelle; Crabbé, Benoît; Christophe, Anne – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
The "syntactic bootstrapping" hypothesis proposes that syntactic structure provides children with cues for learning the meaning of novel words. In this article, we address the question of how children might start acquiring some aspects of syntax before they possess a sizeable lexicon. The study presents two models of early syntax…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Language Research, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Beller, Charley – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The study of definite descriptions has been a central part of research in linguistics and philosophy of language since Russell's seminal work "On Denoting" (Russell 1905). In that work Russell quickly dispatches analyses of denoting expressions with forms like "no man," "some man," "a man," and "every…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Intonation
Ouyang, Iris Chuoying – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation aims to extend our knowledge of prosody--in particular, what kinds of information may be conveyed through prosody, which prosodic dimensions may be used to convey them, and how individual speakers differ from one another in how they use prosody. Four production studies were conducted to examine how various factors interact with…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Role, Oral Language
Tu, Jung-yueh – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigates the adaptation of word prosody in loanword phonology. First, it explicates several influential loanword theories and reviews some representative cases of prosodic adaptation from different languages. Then, it turns to the focus on the prosodic adaptation of Japanese borrowings into Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM or Taiwanese).…
Descriptors: Japanese, Pronunciation, Linguistic Borrowing, Linguistic Theory
Bonner, Timothy E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The study of language production by adults who are learning a second language (L2) has received a good deal of attention especially when it comes to omission of inflectional morphemes within L2 utterances. Several explanations have been proposed for these inflectional errors. One explanation is that the L2 learner simply does not have the L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Peters, Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Sarcasm, or sarcastic irony, involves expressing a message that is often opposite of the literal meaning of what is being said, in a way that may sound bitter, or caustic (Gibbs, 1986). In the past, sarcasm has been viewed as a method of introducing the possibility of alternative interpretations of a discourse, by creating ambiguity as to the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Ambiguity (Semantics), Figurative Language, Language Processing
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