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The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Theories of speech accommodation and audience design have tended to focus on social identity functions of convergence and divergence in interaction. In this article, I focus on additional interactional phenomena that are under‐studied but systematic.
Devyani Sharma
wiley   +1 more source

Awareness of Grammatical Variability in Language Contact: The Case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to research on the awareness of grammatical variability through a study of variation in reflexivity marking in Mano under the influence of Kpelle, both indigenous languages of Guinea. The speakers of these languages are found to be sensitive to contact‐induced grammatical variation in reflexivity, which manifests via ...
Maria Khachaturyan, George Moroz, Pé Mamy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phonetic Reconstruction of the Consonant System of Middle Chinese via Mixed Integer Optimization [PDF]

arXiv
This paper is concerned with phonetic reconstruction of the consonant system of Middle Chinese. We propose to cast the problem as a Mixed Integer Programming problem, which is able to automatically explore homophonic information from ancient rhyme dictionaries and phonetic information from modern Chinese dialects, the descendants of Middle Chinese ...
arxiv  

Phonetics and Phonology

, 2022
This course is based on the idea that a person learns to speak a foreign language by practicing it. This book has been designed to encourage students to be as active possible in various kinds of situations. The pronunciation exercises may be not contain much that will be new to any one already familiar with the teaching of pronunciation.
openaire   +2 more sources

Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on second language (L2) pronunciation self‐assessment reports a general misalignment between self‐ and other‐assessment. This has been attributed to the object of self‐assessment, the self‐assessment task, the measures to which self‐assessment is compared, and speakers’ characteristics.
Cesar Teló he/him, Hanna Kivistö de Souza, Mary Grantham O'Brien she/her, Angélica Carlet   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incidental Nonspeech Auditory Learning Scaffolds Phonetic, Category, and Word Learning in a Foreign Language Classroom

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract There is considerable lab‐based evidence for successful incidental learning, in which a learner's attention is directed away from the to‐be‐learned stimulus and towards another stimulus. In this study, we extend incidental learning research into the language learning classroom.
Seth Wiener, Timothy K. Murphy, Lori L. Holt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

UniGlyph: A Seven-Segment Script for Universal Language Representation [PDF]

arXiv
UniGlyph is a constructed language (conlang) designed to create a universal transliteration system using a script derived from seven-segment characters. The goal of UniGlyph is to facilitate cross-language communication by offering a flexible and consistent script that can represent a wide range of phonetic sounds.
arxiv  

Diving Deep Into the Relationship Between Speech Fluency and Second Language Proficiency: A Meta‐Analysis

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Abundant research has indicated fluency features as meaningful predictors of second language proficiency. However, the extent to which different fluency dimensions and features can predict proficiency remains underexplored. This meta‐analysis employed a multilevel modeling approach to synthesize fluency–proficiency relationships from 71 ...
Xun Yan, Yuyun Lei, Yulin Pan
wiley   +1 more source

Articulatory Phonetics

, 2011
Articulatory phonetics is concerned with the physical apparatus used to produce speech sounds and the physical and cognitive factors that determine what are possible speech sounds and sound patterns. Given the common understanding that speech articulation is an integrated part of a communication system that also includes speech perception, articulatory
openaire   +1 more source

Subphonemic and suballophonic consonant variation : the role of the phoneme inventory [PDF]

, 2013
Consonants exhibit more variation in their phonetic realization than is typically acknowledged, but that variation is linguistically constrained. Acoustic analysis of both read and spontaneous speech reveals that consonants are not necessarily realized ...
Lavoie, Lisa M.
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