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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
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Children's Foreign Word Recognition at First Exposure: The Role of Phonological Similarity and Utterance Position

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 565-596, June 2026.
Abstract The current study examined how children apply their phonological knowledge to recognize translation equivalents in a foreign language. Target words for recognition were either phonologically similar (cognate) or dissimilar (noncognate) to words they already knew in their first language.
Katie Von Holzen, Rochelle S. Newman
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Sounds Sweet: Sound Reduplication in Brand Names Enhances Sweet Taste Expectations

Psychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 5, Page 1261-1276, May 2026.
ABSTRACT The association between brand name sounds and taste perception is an emerging area of interest in marketing research. This study aims to demonstrate the role of sound‐evoked cuteness in the expectation of sweet taste. Across seven studies (including two supplementary studies), our findings revealed that sound reduplication in brand names is ...
Kosuke Motoki, Sayo Iseki, Abhishek Pathak   +2 more
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Exploring Acoustic Overlap in Second Language Vowel Productions

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 1293-1304, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the alignment of vowel categories between second language (L2) learners and first language (L1) speakers of the target language, as well as potential overlaps between adjacent vowels in terms of formant frequencies and duration.
Georgios P. Georgiou, Elena Savva
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Introducing the Archive of Pittsburgh Language and Speech, a Publicly Accessible, Richly Annotated Corpus of Sociolinguistic Interviews

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT The troves of speech data that have driven an increasing orientation towards large‐scale methods in linguistics have been, for the most part, available only to closed teams of researchers and their collaborators. The Archive of Pittsburgh Language and Speech (APLS, https://apls.pitt.edu) is a new open data resource, consisting of nearly 46 h ...
Dan Villarreal, Jack Rechsteiner, Barbara Johnstone, Scott Kiesling   +3 more
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Working Memory Modulates Auditory Perceptual Sensitivity During Speech Planning. [PDF]

J Speech Lang Hear Res
Merrikhi Y, Daliri A.
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Sensorimotor Adaptation to a Nonuniform Formant Perturbation Is Preserved in Healthy Aging. [PDF]

J Speech Lang Hear Res
Cheng HS, Niziolek CA, Parrell B.
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Auditory-Somatosensory Interactions in Speech Perception in Individuals With Hearing Impairment: An Exploratory Case Study. [PDF]

J Speech Lang Hear Res
Ashokumar M, Schwartz JL, Ito T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Impairment of written word production in logopenic primary progressive aphasia: dissociating phonological and orthographic contributions. [PDF]

Front Hum Neurosci
Macoir J, Laforce R, Lavoie M.
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Korean Vowel Systems: A Study of Vowel Systems in Seoul and Pyongyang

, 2014
This is a study of the Korean vowel system. The traditional description is that of a quadrangular system with three levels of sonority and three to four classes of timbre, but none of my findings match it. Instead, unusual and exciting vowel systems emerge, with back vowels in both the Seoulites and older people in Pyongyang contrasting three degrees ...
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