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Zhu, Wenhui; Lee, Sun-Hee; Zhang, Xinting – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
This study investigates the perception of the three Mandarin high vowels /i, u, y/ after dental, retroflex, and palatal fricatives and affricates (/s/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate]/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate][superscript voiceless glottal fricative]/; /[voiceless retroflex sibilant fricative]/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate]/-/[voiceless…
Descriptors: Vowels, Mandarin Chinese, English, Native Speakers
Carlos Andres Rojas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The present study explored perceptual and articulatory techniques addressing the pronunciation of Spanish rhotics by means of a week-long computerized training. Through a quasi-experimental design approach, the study tested the utility of the online training and its effects on the phonetic production of taps [voiced alveolar tap or flap] and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Glewwe, Eleanor Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2019
An ongoing debate in phonology concerns the extent to which the phonological typology is shaped by synchronic learning biases. The two best-studied types of synchronic bias are complexity bias, a bias against formally complex patterns, and substantive bias, a bias against phonetically unnatural patterns. While most previous work has focused on…
Descriptors: Phonology, Classification, Bias, Phonetics
Li, Shanpeng; Gu, Wentao; Liu, Lei; Tang, Ping – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Sarcasm is a specialized speech act in daily vocal communication usually characterized by unique prosodic features, but the role of voice quality in expressing sarcasm has not been explored much. The goal of this study is to explore the voice quality features of Mandarin sarcastic speech in comparison to sincere speech. Method: Fifteen…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mandarin Chinese, Speech Communication, Comparative Analysis
Margarethe McDonald – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Language exposure plays a large role in language acquisition, and bilingual children must acquire both of their languages in environments that typically include abundant speech variability. The specific goals of this dissertation were to examine how speech exposure affected phonological retuning and lexical access in bilingual children's second…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Native Language
Li, Bin; Shao, Jing; Bao, Mingzhen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
Tonal languages differ in how they use phonetic correlates, e.g. average pitch height and pitch direction, for tonal contrasts. Thus, native speakers of a tonal language may need to adjust their attention to familiar or unfamiliar phonetic cues when perceiving non-native tones. On the other hand, speakers of a non-tonal language may need to…
Descriptors: Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Phonetics, Cues
Greenwood, Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation begins with the observation of a typological asymmetry within phonological patterns related to phonetic naturalness. Patterns that are rooted within existing tendencies of perception and/or production--in other words, patterns that are phonetically "natural"--are common in phonological typology and seen in a variety of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Patterns, Phonology, Classification
McPeek, Tyler – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Individual voices are not uniformly similar to others, even when factoring out speaker characteristics such as sex, age, dialect, and so on. Some speakers share common features and can cohere into groups based on gross vocal similarity but, to date, no attempt has been made to describe these features systematically or to generate a taxonomy based…
Descriptors: North American English, Classification, Intonation, Auditory Perception
Finley, Sara – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Providing evidence for the universal tendencies of patterns in the world's languages can be difficult, as it is impossible to sample all possible languages, and linguistic samples are subject to interpretation. However, experimental techniques, such as artificial grammar learning paradigms, make it possible to uncover the psychological reality of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonetics, Grammar, Vowels
Hansen, Benjamin Bozzell – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates the hypothesis that the more vowel-like a consonant is, the more difficult it is for listeners to classify it as geminate or singleton. A perceptual account of this observation holds that more vowel-like consonants lack clear markers to signal the beginning and ending of the consonant, so listeners don't perceive the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Phonetics, Classification, Auditory Perception
Swan, Kristen; Myers, Emily – Second Language Research, 2013
Adults tend to perceive speech sounds from their native language as members of distinct and stable categories; however, they fail to perceive differences between many non-native speech sounds without a great deal of training. The present study investigates the effects of categorization training on adults' ability to discriminate non-native…
Descriptors: Language Research, Second Language Learning, Pretests Posttests, Auditory Perception
Mayo, Catherine; Gibbon, Fiona; Clark, Robert A. J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors aimed to investigate how listener training and the presence of intermediate acoustic cues influence transcription variability for conflicting cue speech stimuli. Method: Twenty listeners with training in transcribing disordered speech, and 26 untrained listeners, were asked to make forced-choice labeling…
Descriptors: Adults, Phonetics, Acoustics, Cues
Pivik, R. T.; Andres, Aline; Badger, Thomas M. – Brain and Language, 2012
The influence of diet on cortical processing of syllables was examined at 3 and 6 months in 239 infants who were breastfed or fed milk or soy-based formula. Event-related potentials to syllables differing in voice-onset-time were recorded from placements overlying brain areas specialized for language processing. P1 component amplitude and latency…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Speech, Infants, Dietetics
Diaz, Begona; Mitterer, Holger; Broersma, Mirjam; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The extent to which the phonetic system of a second language is mastered varies across individuals. The present study evaluates the pattern of individual differences in late bilinguals across different phonological processes. Fifty-five late Dutch-English bilinguals were tested on their ability to perceive a difficult L2 speech contrast (the…
Descriptors: Identification, Acoustics, Phonetics, Word Recognition
Feldman, Naomi H.; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Morgan, James L. – Psychological Review, 2009
A variety of studies have demonstrated that organizing stimuli into categories can affect the way the stimuli are perceived. We explore the influence of categories on perception through one such phenomenon, the perceptual magnet effect, in which discriminability between vowels is reduced near prototypical vowel sounds. We present a Bayesian model…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Classification, Stimuli, Vowels
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