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- 2Munro, Murray J.
- 2Shammass, Sherrie E.
- 2Smyth, Ronald H.
- 1Abdulrahim, Dana
- 1Abraham, Elyse K.
- 11Linguistics
- 11Psycholinguistics
- 10Speech perception
- 5Language acquisition
- 4Bilingualism
- 4English language--Vowels
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Spring 2015
This dissertation examines native speaker perception and processing of the variability inherent to non-native speech, specifically, Mandarin-accented English. In order to accomplish this, subjective ratings were first collected as a measure of perceived foreign accentedness. The influence of...
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Perception and Production of Yorùbá Tones by Young and Adult native Yorùbá speakers and native speakers of non-tone languages
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Young participants (8-16-year-old) and adults (18 years +) from three different language backgrounds (Yorùbá speakers in Nigeria, Yorùbá speakers in Canada, and English speakers in Canada), participated in four perception experiments (one AX Discrimination, two Identification, and one Lexical),...
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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...