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2008

Lam. Y., Beck, D.

In this paper we propose the term “linguistic suicide” to refer to situations where parents who are speakers of a minority language deliberately choose not to teach this language to their children and instead adopt a majority language in their home. In the case of speakers of Upper Necaxa...

2015-04-20

Podlubny, Ryan G., Geeraert, Kristina, Tucker, Benjamin V.

The present study explores the possibility of systematic acoustic differences that could be used to differentiate ‘homophones’. This study investigates productions of like in western Canadian English, focusing specifically on acoustic characteristics and whether they differ across multiple...

2010

Newman, John

This volume is introduced in the foreword (vii) as the product of a project begun in 2002 at the Fédération de Recherche Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. It consists of three parts: ‘State of the art’ (one chapter), ‘Theoretical and...

2014

Tomaschek, Fabian

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...

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...

2019-03-26

Nancy Azevedo, Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Kathleen Berkun, Alexandra Papathanasopoulos, Leen Yamani, Alexander Rokos, Eva Kehayia

A typical N400 event-related potential (ERP) component occurs when the brain detects a semantic contradiction and can be elicited by the canonical experiment where the final word of a sentence contradicts what a listener is expecting to hear. In the absence of an N400 elicitation paradigm in...

2018-01-09

Tucker, Benjamin V.

Midsaggital images for teaching Phonetics and Speech Science.

2014-07-23

Chen, Tsung-Ying

This is a Java program that simulates the acquisition of final devoicing using toy data as in Ch.2 of my doctoral thesis "Probabilistic Selection of Input in Morphophonological Acquisition".

2002

Beck, D.

2004

Le, E.

This article presents and illustrates a formal model of linguistic analysis in order to explain a phenomenon that is fundamental to translators in their practice: the construction of coherence. First, the role of paragraphs in the construction of coherence is explained with the application of the...