Research Publications (Linguistics)
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2022-01-01
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
Using phonological neighborhood density has been a common method to quantify lexical competition. It is useful and convenient but has shortcomings that are worth reconsidering. The present study quantifies the effects of lexical competition during spoken word recognition using acoustic distance...
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2018-12-20
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
This paper has been significantly updated and published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Please read and cite that version instead, which can be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0009584. The present study quantifies the effects of lexical competition during spoken word...
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Visual processing of Vietnamese compound words: A multivariate analysis using corpus linguistic and psycholinguistic paradigms
2014-04-24
This dissertation investigates disyllabic compound words in Vietnamese, an isolating tone language, using corpus linguistics and psycholinguistic experimental paradigms. Chapter 2 reports the construction of two corpora and a database of wide range of lexical variables. Chapter 3 discusses a...
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2014
A frequently replicated finding is that the frequency of words affects their phonetic shape. In English, high frequency words have been shown to contain more centralized vowels than low frequency words. By contrast, a recent study on vowel articulation in German has shown a contrary finding. At...
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2010
Warner, Natasha, Tucker, Benjamin V.
Abstract phonological patterns and detailed phonetic patterns can combine to produce unusual acoustic results, but criteria for what aspects of a pattern are phonetic and what aspects are phonological are often disputed. Early literature on Romanian makes mention of nasal devoicing in word-final...