Research Publications (Linguistics)
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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...
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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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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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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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2013
Arppe, Antti, Newman, John, Han, Weifang
Shanghainese is an extremely topic-prominent language with many topic markers in competition with one another, often without any obvious basis for the selection of one topic marker over another. We explore the influence of five variables on the five most frequent topic markers in a corpus of...
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2007
Zhang, Eric, Butler, Terry, Newman, John, Lin, Jingxia
The creation of the Wenzhou Spoken Corpus, an online searchable corpus of a modern Chinese dialect, presents a number of challenges that are of interest to the corpus linguistic community. We review issues involved with collection of spoken data, its transcription and markup, as well as the...
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The use of paragraphs in French and English academic writing: Towards a grammar of paragraphs
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In this article, differences between French and English academics in the use of paragraphs in the domain of public international law are brought to light. First, the concept of paragraph ('macrostructuralbasis') in text linguistics is defined formally with relations of coordination,...
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1990
Petterson, Robert, Newman, John
Kairi has distinctive tones which function as a pitch-accent system: there is one syllable in each morpheme, described as the \"accented syllable,\" which must have its, tonal properties specified; once the accented syllable and its tone type have been specified, the tonal properties of the...