Pub Date : 2020-10-12DOI: 10.36505/EXLING-2020/11/0035/000450
Francesca Nicora, Sonia Cenceschi, C. Meluzzi
This research offers a preliminary survey on vowels and diphthong variation between two Irish English varieties: Galway (GW) and Letterkenny (LK). The results showed only a smaller difference between GW and LK with respect to the monophthongs, whereas a larger difference was found for the MOUTH diphthong. Despite the great amount of literature on English dialects, a phonetic investigation of these specific varieties is still lacking. This study may open the path to further investigations of sociophonetic values and the stereotypes associated with different varieties, in particular those of the northern regions.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.36505/EXLING-2020/11/0015/000430
A. Botinis, C. Alexandris, Athina Kontostavlaki
The present study concerns the prosodic structure of Greek as a function of word stress and focus as well as statement and yes/no question sentence type distinctions. It is argued that the word stress distinction has a local domain whereas focus, statement and question distinctions have a global domain. Word stress has a lengthening effect on all segmental constituents of the stressed syllable and especially on vowel in combination with an intensity increase whereas the tonal pattern is variable in accordance with the global context. The focus distinction has no lengthening effect locally and may show variable tonal patterns locally and globally depending on the global context. The statement and yes/no sentence type distinction has variable prosodic patterns locally and globally and shows multiple interactions with variable focus applications.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.36505/EXLING-2020/11/0025/000440
Pavlo Kapustin, Michael Kapustin
We conducted a small-scale experiment in which the respondents were asked to relate different language constructs (e.g. “possible”, “afterwards”, “seldom”) to numbers on a certain scale (e.g. surprisingness, time, frequency). We studied how the respondents expressed vagueness of the meaning using a numeric scale, examined how their answers related to scalar implicatures and questioned whether the meaning of vague constructs could be adequately modelled using compatibility intervals, a meaning representation (computational model) we recently proposed.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.36505/EXLING-2020/11/0003/000418
W. Ziegler
This paper gives an overview of a model that predicts articulation ease for German phonological words on the basis of error data from patients with apraxia of speech (AOS). AOS is introduced as a clinical model of higher order motor processes for articulation. Word production accuracy in AOS is considered as a window into the structure of articulation plans as acquired through speech motor learning in childhood. The NLG model of apraxia of speech is explained. Applications in speech development and adult speech are outlined.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.36505/EXLING-2020/11/0052/000467
Jitka Veronková, Giorgi Gersamia
Languages differ in how vowel length is applied, which can affect the acquisition of a second language. In Czech, the length is phonological. There are practically no restrictions on its occurrence. It is also completely independent of word stress. In Russian, the length of vocals does not have a phonological status but can be an accompanying characteristic in the implementation of a word stress. The subject of the experiment is the perceptual analysis of vocal quantity in Czech as L2 in Russian speakers (8 subjects). The material consists of recordings of a set of trisyllabic words (48 lexemes, 256 items), in which the structure of quantity (8 different patterns) is checked.
{"title":"Vowel length of Czech trisyllabic words in L1 Russian speakers","authors":"Jitka Veronková, Giorgi Gersamia","doi":"10.36505/EXLING-2020/11/0052/000467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/EXLING-2020/11/0052/000467","url":null,"abstract":"Languages differ in how vowel length is applied, which can affect the acquisition of a second language. In Czech, the length is phonological. There are practically no restrictions on its occurrence. It is also completely independent of word stress. In Russian, the length of vocals does not have a phonological status but can be an accompanying characteristic in the implementation of a word stress. The subject of the experiment is the perceptual analysis of vocal quantity in Czech as L2 in Russian speakers (8 subjects). The material consists of recordings of a set of trisyllabic words (48 lexemes, 256 items), in which the structure of quantity (8 different patterns) is checked.","PeriodicalId":322222,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121116387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.36505/EXLING-2020/11/0039/000454
A. Pistono, R. Hartsuiker
Within the language system, several of the language production levels may be involved in the production of disfluencies. Here, we conducted network task experiments to tackle disfluencies occurring during lexical selection, grammatical selection, and conceptual formulation. We showed that each difficulty induced a different pattern of disfluency. Additionally, multivariate pattern analyses demonstrated that difficulty is predictable from disfluency data patterns.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.36505/EXLING-2020/11/0014/000429
Paris Binos
Vocants are precursors to speech and are facially neutral. The presence of these speechlike vocalizations was evident during the precursors to mature phonology called “protophones”. The prosodic feature of duration of the nuclei plays a crucial role in the shift of prelexical to mature speech, since speech intelligibility is closely related to the control of duration. The aim of this work is to determine whether cochlear implants (CIs) positively trigger language acquisition and the development of verbal skills. Recent literature findings are compared and discussed with the performance of two Greek congenitally hearing-impaired infants who were matched with three normal-hearing (NH) infants. This work highlighted an important weakness of the prosodic abilities of young infants with CIs.
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