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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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Spring 2023
As we listen to spoken language, the brain performs multiple levels of computation, from understanding individual words to comprehending the arc of a story. Recently, computational models have been developed that also process text on multiple levels. These models, called multi-timescale long...
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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...
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2022-04-01
Current research on the behavioral immune system postulates that avoiding out-group members is one strategy that individuals use to avoid contracting infection. The present study tested whether different news headlines related to the COVID-19 pandemic would evoke a disgust reaction in Canadian...
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2021-08-01
Solange Zadnik, Scott James Perry, Benjamin V. Tucker
This research focuses on the voiced interdental fricative /ð/ and the voiceless interdental fricative /θ/. In casual speech, many sounds are changed through reduction. In the case of fricatives, they are often reduced to stop-like fricatives. This research focused on the variations of /ð/ and /θ/...