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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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Spring 2010
Investigations of morphological impairment in aphasia have revealed that patients may retain knowledge of a word’s morphological status even when they cannot access that word (Delazer & Semenza, 1998). In addition, aphasiological investigations have shown that more errors are produced with...
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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...
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Recipient response behaviour during Japanese storytelling: a combined quantitative/multimodal approach
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This study explores the role of speaker and listener gaze in the production of recipient responses, often called backchannels or, in Japanese, aizuchi. Using elicited narrative audio/video data, speaker gaze and recipient response behaviours were first analyzed quantitatively. The results showed...
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Storytelling and Special Interests: Microstructure in the Fictional and Personal Narratives of Autistic Adults
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Background and objectives: Past research has found that autistic individuals have pragmatic and morphosyntactic deficits in narrative language; however, the majority of these studies use fictional narrative prompts and are on children, not older autistic individuals. Furthermore, very few use...