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- 21Matthew C. Kelley
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Measuring the dispersion of density in head and neck cancer patients' vowel spaces: The vowel dispersion index
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Matthew C. Kelley, Daniel Aalto
The present study introduces a measure of the dispersion of density throughout the vowel space, which we refer to as the vowel dispersion index. The vowel dispersion index is based on calculating the total variation of the density values in Story & Bunton’s (2017) convex hull representation of...
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2014-10-01
Sims, Michelle, Brenner, Daniel, Tucker, Benjamin V.
Research on laboratory speech has uncovered many aspects of speech perception and comprehension, however we still know very little about the recognition of the more common spontaneous types of speech. This presentation reports an experiment designed to investigate the relationship between...
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Modeling the acquisition of Dutch final devoicing
2014-07-23
This is a Java program that simulates the acquisition of Dutch final devoicing as part of Ch. 3 in my doctoral thesis "Probabilistic Selection of Input in Morphophonological Acquisition".
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Modes of Metaphor and Me: The Role Shyness Plays in the Interpretation of Visual and Verbal Metaphors
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This thesis examines whether or not one's level of shyness affects one's interpretation of visual and verbal metaphors. Current research demonstrates that shyness correlates positively with more negative interpretations of counterfactual irony and that personality traits are related to certain...
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2019-03-26
Anastasia Chuprina, Nicholas Lester, Natalia Slioussar
In the mental lexicon words are connected to each other through various paths. We explore how a word’s representation might be accessed, depending on its syntactic properties and shared formal properties with other members of a morphological family. Morphological families of verbs in Russian are...
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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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2019-06-01
We designed an exploratory pilot study to examine the nature of onomatopoeia use in Canadian 8mother’s speech to infants (12-18 months old) on the brink of a period of rapid productive vocabulary development with prevalent individual variation in vocabulary size (Fenson et al, 1994). The study...
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Patterns of usage for English SIT, STAND, and LIE: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics
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Posture verbs with the meanings ‘‘sit’’, ‘‘stand’’, and ‘‘lie’’ are of considerable interest within cognitive linguistics on account of the richness of the polysemy and grammaticalizations that they enter into across languages. We explore the usage of English SIT, STAND, and LIE in over a dozen...
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Patterns of usage for English sit, stand, and lie: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics
Download2004
Posture verbs with the meanings ‘‘sit’’, ‘‘stand’’, and ‘‘lie’’ are of considerable interest within cognitive linguistics on account of the richness of the polysemy and grammaticalizations that they enter into across languages. We explore the usage of English SIT, STAND, and LIE in over a dozen...