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Homophony and Phonological Contrasts in Novel Word Learning: A Visual World Eye-Tracking Study with Adult Native and Non-Native Speakers
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This thesis used visual world eye-tracking to examine how adults from native and non-native backgrounds learn novel words that contain homophones and non-homophones, and vary in different types of phonological contrasts: consonant contrasts, tone contrasts, and consonant & tone contrasts. It also...
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Juncture epenthesis in Filomeno Mata Totonac: prosodic constraints and syntactic conditions
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This thesis describes and analyzes the occurrence of juncture epentheses at word boundaries in Filomeno Mata Totonac. In this language, when two consonants come together at a word boundary, a vowel is often inserted; and when a vowel and an oral stop come together at a word boundary, there is...
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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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Phonetic variability of the Spanish alveolar tap: spontaneous production and spoken word recognition
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The present dissertation investigated the spontaneous production of the Spanish alveolar tap and how the variability typical of spontaneous speech impacts the process of spoken word recognition. Our corpus analyses found that intervocalic taps vary in duration and intensity due to speech rate and...
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Production and perception of vowel harmony: Phonological predictors of ratings and on-line adaptations of Russian vowels in Yakut (Sakha)
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This dissertation investigates phonological input predictors of the Russian vowels /a, e, i, o, u/ in on-line adaptations among modern Russian-Yakut bilingual speakers in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Russian Federation, with a particular focus on the production and perception of vowel...