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The perception, production and the effect of explicit instruction in L2 English and Spanish vowels in foreign language (FL) adult learners
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Contact, variation and change in Romance and beyond | Kontakt, Variation und Wandel in und jenseits der Romania : Studies in honor of Trudel Meisenburg | Festschrift für Trudel Meisenburg
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Contact, variation and change in Romance and beyond : studies in honor of Trudel Meisenburg = Kontakt, Variation und Wandel in und jenseits der Romania : Festschrift für Trudel Meisenburg
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Stressed Clitic Pronouns in Two Spanish Varieties : a perception study
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Prosodic prominence in English
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In English, certain words are perceptually more salient than other neighboring words. The perceptual salience is signaled by acoustic cues. Prominent words are higher, longer, or louder than nonprominent words in English. Perceptual prominence is associated with meaning of a word in discourse context. Prominent words are usually new or contrastive information, while nonprominent words are given or noncontrastive information. This dissertation addresses English prominence in two separate studies. The first study investigates the prosodic prominence in relation to pitch accents, acoustic cues, and discourse meaning of a word in a public speech. The second study examines the cognitive representation of prosodic contour in a corpus of imitation. Linguists claim that the information status of a word determines the types of pitch accents in English. Prior research informs us about prominence (1) in relation to the binary given-new distinction of lexical givenness, and (2) in minimally contextualized utterances such as question-answer prompts or excerpts from a corpus. The assignment of prominence, however, can vary in relation to referential meaning as well as lexical meaning of a word in natural, more contextualized speech. This study examines the prosodic prominence as a function of pitch accents, acoustic cues, and information status in a complete public speech. Information status is considered in relation to referential, lexical givenness and alternative-based contrastive focus. The results show that accent type is probabilistically associated with information status in this speech. The accent assignment differs between referentially vs. lexically given words. Despite the weak relationship between information status and pitch accents in the speech of the speaker, non-expert listeners perceive prominence as expected: they are more likely to perceive prominence on words carrying new or contrastive information or words with high or bitonal pitch accents. Surprisingly, the listeners perceive acoustic cues differently depending on the information status or accent types of a word. Based on these results, the first study suggests that (1) the relationship between information status and accent type is not deterministic in English, (2) lexical givenness differs from referential givenness in production and perception of prominence, and (3) perceived prominence is influenced by information status, pitch accents, acoustic cues, and their interaction. The second study examines how an intonational contour is represented in the mental lexicon of English speakers. Some linguists find that speakers are able to reproduce the phonetic details of intonational features, while in other research speakers are better at reproducing intonational features than imitating phonetic details of an utterance. This study investigates the domain of intonational encoding by comparing several prosodic domains in imitated utterances. I hypothesize that the domain which best captures the similarity of intonational contour between the model speaker and imitators is the target of imitation, and that imitation can be considered as the domain of intonational encoding in cognitive representation. The results show that the f0 distance between the model speaker and imitators is best explained over an intermediate phrase. Based on these results, the second study proposes that speakers encode a time-varying f0 contour over a prosodic phrase in their mental lexicon and supports the exemplar encoding of intonational contour.
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English; prosody
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/102893
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Contrast preservation and constraints on individual phonetic variation
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The perception of phrasal prominence in English, Spanish and French conversational speech
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In: Speech Prosody ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01469816 ; Speech Prosody, Jun 2016, Boston, United States. ⟨10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-94⟩ (2016)
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Surface sound and underlying structure : The phonetics-phonology interface in Romance languages
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In: Manual of grammatical interfaces in Romance ; https://hal-univ-paris.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01226122 ; S. Fischer and C. Gabriel. Manual of grammatical interfaces in Romance, 10, Mouton de Gruyter, pp.23-40, 2016, Manuals of Romance Linguistics, 978-3-11-031186-0 ; https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/205013 (2016)
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Perception of acoustic, informational and structural prominence in English, French, and Spanish.
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In: Laboratory Phonology ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01469947 ; Laboratory Phonology, Jul 2016, Ithica, United States (2016)
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Differential object marking in Basque: grammaticalization, attitudes and ideological representations
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Prosodic and structural variability in free word order language discourse
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The perception and production of prominence in Spanish by heritage speakers and L2 learners
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Gestural undershoot and gestural intrusion – from perceptual errors to historical sound change
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In: 2nd ERRARE Worskhop: Errors by humans and machines in multimedia, multimodal, multilingual data processing ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01824525 ; 2nd ERRARE Worskhop: Errors by humans and machines in multimedia, multimodal, multilingual data processing, Sep 2015, Sinaia, Romania. pp.123-136 (2015)
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Social dynamics of Catalan-Spanish contact in the evolution of Catalonian Spanish
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