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2015
Pollock, Karen, Tucker, Benjamin V., Mills, Timothy
Phonetics is an inherently lab-oriented topic, involving the investigation and analysis of speech data; but it is often taught in large sections with limited instructional time and other resources, so instructors are unable to engage in the deep interactive explorations of topics that would be...
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Spring 2010
While much research has been dedicated to studying the speech of French immersion students, relatively little is known about their sociolinguistic competence, particularly in the area of phonetics. This study aims to determine the extent to which a group of French immersion students in Ontario,...
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Modelling phonetic reduction in a corpus of spoken English using Random Forests and Mixed-Effects Regression
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In this thesis, phonetic reduction in the Buckeye Corpus (Pitt et al. 2005) of conversational speech is modelled using advanced statistical techniques. Two measures of phonetic reduction are modelled, reduction in the duration of words and deletion of segments from words. Statistical modelling...
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Networking through regional accents: The influence of individual differences in social network properties on regional accent processing
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This thesis investigates the influence of social network size and social network “racial” diversity on regional accent processing. 122 participants listened to recorded English speech produced by 24 native English speakers. These 24 native speakers consisted of six different English speech...
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Pattern Learning and Accent Familiarity in Monolingual and Bilingual English Speakers: Generalizing Learning Across Accented Speech
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It is increasingly common to encounter speakers with an accented variety of English, especially as society becomes more diverse and multilingual. To begin shedding light on how to improve communication outcomes when interacting with a speaker who has an accent, this research investigates...
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Fall 2023
This dissertation is a series of studies that explore the acoustic production of stress, length, non-stress metrical phonology, and other syllable structure altering phenomena in Central Alaskan Yup’ik and Chugach Alutiiq. The intricate systems of weight, length, and stress that conspire to...
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Fall 2023
Previous research indicates that knowledge about sociocultural norms affects language processing immediately and automatically. One such example is the Stereotype Effect, where sentences containing violations of gender stereotypes take longer to read and are rated as less appropriate than...