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Listener Commentary Reveals the Social Salience of Accent Features

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how listeners from two regions of England perceive and describe Northern English accents. Using the Salient Language in Context (SLIC) methodology, 94 respondents from two regions of England listened to recorded voices, clicking when they noticed features and providing open‐ended comments.
Chris Montgomery
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Pitch Accent on the Perception of English Lexical Stress: Evidence from English and Mandarin Chinese Listeners

Languages
The relative weighting of f0 and vowel reduction in English spoken word recognition at the sentence level were investigated in one two-alternative forced-choice word identification experiment.
Fenqi Wang, Delin Deng, Kevin Tang, Ratree Wayland   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vowel Quality and Phonological Projection

, 1995
This thesis examines some consequences of the hypothesis that syllables are headed constituents. In particular we examine to what extent phonological features of prototypical heads, that is to say: vowels, have an influence on the structure of the syllable around the head.
openaire   +2 more sources

Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing the Speaker's Face Enhances Second Language Shadowing: Neural and Behavioral Evidence

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated how facial cues influence second language (L2) shadowing among 42 Japanese learners of English. Participants completed four conditions that varied by task type (listening vs. shadowing) and visual input (face vs. mosaic).
Hyeonjeong Jeong, Shuhei Kadota, Mayumi Kajiura, Hiroshi Nakanishi, Koji Kazai, Mariko Kawasaki, Yoko Nakano, Naoya Hase   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects Of Age On Emphasis Production In Jordanian Arabic

The Journal of Studies in Language, Culture and Society
This paper investigates the effect(s) age has on two emphatic sounds, (vis. [sˤ] and [tˤ]) in a sub-dialect of Jordanian Arabic, namely Ajlouni-Jordanian Arabic.
Ibrahim Eshlash Odeh Almomany
doaj  

All about ablaut: a typology of ablaut reduplicative structures

Linguistic Typology
In this typological study, we identify 31 languages that have reduplication with a changed vowel, as in English tick-tock, referred to as ablaut reduplication.
Wivell Grace, Miatto Veronica, Karakaş Ayla, Kostyszyn Kalina, Repetti Lori   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forced-Alignment-and-Vowel-Extraction/alignedTextGrid: v0.6.7

<h2>What's Changed</h2> <ul> <li>Aligned textgrids now pickleable by @JoFrhwld in https://github.com/Forced-Alignment-and-Vowel-Extraction/alignedTextGrid/pull/183</li> <li>badge and workflow updates by @JoFrhwld in ...
Christian Brickhouse, Josef Fruehwald
core   +1 more source

How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
wiley   +1 more source

Variation and change over time in British choral singing (1925–2019)

Laboratory Phonology
The front vowels of Received Pronunciation lowered in quality over the twentieth century (Wells, 1982b; Fabricius, 2007; Bjelaković, 2017). Connections between choral singing and Southern Standard British English (SSBE) have been made in musicological ...
Edward Marshall, Jane Stuart-Smith, John Butt, Timothy Dean   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources