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View article: Sonority-driven stress: codas in Brazilian Portuguese
Sonority-driven stress: codas in Brazilian Portuguese Open
This study provides empirical evidence for sonority-driven stress in Brazilian Portuguese. Using auditory forced-choice and orthographic tasks with nonce words, we demonstrate that speakers systematically prefer final stress when final syl…
View article: Orthography triggers gradient weight sensitivity in non‑native stress perception
Orthography triggers gradient weight sensitivity in non‑native stress perception Open
This study explores whether native Mandarin speakers, who rely on tone to infer syllable weight in their language, can use syllable weight to perceive lexical stress in European Portuguese (EP), a quantity-sensitive language where stress s…
View article: Weight effects on stress: lexicon and grammar
Weight effects on stress: lexicon and grammar Open
This thesis examines weight effects on stress and proposes a probabilistic approach based on the notion that weight is gradient, not categorical. Arguments for this proposal are divided into three main chapters, which examine and statistic…
View article: Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons
Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons Open
Traditional regression models typically estimate parameters for a factor F by designating one level as a reference (intercept) and calculating slopes for other levels of F. While this approach often aligns with our research question(s), it…
View article: Pronoun interpretation in L1 and L2 English: when native speaker performance is unexpected
Pronoun interpretation in L1 and L2 English: when native speaker performance is unexpected Open
We examine pronoun interpretation in an overt subject language (English) by L2 learnersfrom a null subject L1 (Italian), using a task where participants choose potentialantecedents for pronouns in bi-clausal sentences which manipulate pres…
View article: Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons
Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons Open
Traditional regression models typically estimate parameters for a factor F by designating one level as a reference (intercept) and calculating slopes for other levels of F. While this approach often aligns with our research question(s), it…
View article: Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons
Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons Open
Traditional regression models typically estimate parameters for a factor F by designating one level as a reference (intercept) and calculating slopes for other levels of F. While this approach often aligns with our research question(s), it…
View article: Feet without stress: High vowel deletion in Québec French
Feet without stress: High vowel deletion in Québec French Open
This paper investigates whether high vowel deletion (HVD) in Québec French is conditioned by prosodic structure. In Prosodic Phonology, prosodic constituents are typically assumed to be universal. However, the universality of certain const…
View article: Marginal representations in loanword adaptation: affrication in Brazilian Portuguese English
Marginal representations in loanword adaptation: affrication in Brazilian Portuguese English Open
In loanword adaptation, it has been argued that category proximity is preferred over phonetic approximation (LaCharité and Paradis, 2005). For example, building and cook are adapted to Spanish as b[i]lding and c[u]k, respectively, even tho…
View article: Weight effects and the parametrization of the foot: English versus Portuguese
Weight effects and the parametrization of the foot: English versus Portuguese Open
This article explores the possibility that even though English and Portuguese present similar stress patterns on the surface, the two languages may be formally different: whereas English offers strong evidence for the foot, Portuguese does…
View article: Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons
Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons Open
Traditional regression models typically estimate parameters for a factor F by designating one level as a reference (intercept) and calculating slopes for other levels of F. While this approach often aligns with our research question(s), it…
View article: Pronoun interpretation in Italian: Exploring the effects of prosody
Pronoun interpretation in Italian: Exploring the effects of prosody Open
We explore potential effects of prosody on pronoun interpretation in Italian, building on previous research which has shown that second language learners/users (L2ers) assign non-target interpretations to overt pronouns. We investigate eff…
View article: Quantitative data visualization
Quantitative data visualization Open
Data visualization is a key component in quantitative research, as it often paves the way to more informed statistical analyses and more efficient presentation of findings. In this chapter, we will explore how to apply visualization techni…
View article: Current issues in Portuguese main and secondary stress
Current issues in Portuguese main and secondary stress Open
Portuguese stress has been the focus of numerous studies in the past fifty years. Although studies have adopted different theoretical frameworks, from rules to grids to constraints, most of them assume a categorical view of the phonologica…
View article: Lexical access in Portuguese stress
Lexical access in Portuguese stress Open
Categorical approaches to lexical stress typically assume that words have either regular or irregular stress, and imply that only the latter needs to be stored in the lexicon, while the former can be derived by rule. In this paper, we comp…
View article: Statistical modelling in L3/Ln acquisition
Statistical modelling in L3/Ln acquisition Open
This chapter introduces Bayesian data analysis and shows how such an approach can better deal with the intricacies of L n acquisition data. The data analyzed is simulated based on Rothman (2010) to demonstrate how we can use Bayesian model…
View article: Lexical access in Portuguese stress
Lexical access in Portuguese stress Open
Categorical approaches to lexical stress typically assume that words have either regular or irregular stress, and imply that only the latter needs to be stored in the lexicon, while the former can be derived by rule. In this paper, we comp…
View article: A corpus-based approach to map target vowel asymmetry in Brazilian Veneto metaphony
A corpus-based approach to map target vowel asymmetry in Brazilian Veneto metaphony Open
Metaphony targeting upper-mid vowels /e, o/ is a characteristic of Central Veneto, a dialect of Veneto spoken in northeastern Italy. In a closely related understudied dialect spoken in southern Brazil, namely Brazilian Veneto (locally know…
View article: Pronoun interpretation in Italian: assessing the effects of prosody
Pronoun interpretation in Italian: assessing the effects of prosody Open
In this paper, we offer a prosodic account to supplement some well-known findings relating to choice of antecedents for pronouns in Italian. We argue that methodologies previously used to assess pronoun interpretation are flawed in that th…
View article: WS16: Italian heritage: Using corpus data to map phonological patterns in Brazilian Veneto
WS16: Italian heritage: Using corpus data to map phonological patterns in Brazilian Veneto Open
This is the project page for our oral communication at the 54th SLE in 2021.
View article: Gradience in prosodic representation: vowel reduction and neoclassical elements in Brazilian Portuguese
Gradience in prosodic representation: vowel reduction and neoclassical elements in Brazilian Portuguese Open
In Brazilian Portuguese, neoclassical elements (NCEs) may combine with both independent lexical words (e.g., psico in psicolinguística ‘psycholinguistics’) and non-lexical words (e.g., psico in psicologia ‘psychology’). This has led to the…
View article: Open-mindedness in science education
Open-mindedness in science education Open
Critical thinking is widely regarded as one of the main objectives of education in general terms, and also of science education. The idea of thinking critically, that is, to evaluate adequately and eventually embrace a certain claim only i…
View article: Gradience in prosodic representation: vowel reduction and neoclassical elements in Brazilian Portuguese
Gradience in prosodic representation: vowel reduction and neoclassical elements in Brazilian Portuguese Open
In Brazilian Portuguese, neoclassical elements (NCEs) may combine with both independent lexical words (e.g., psico in psicolinguística ‘psycholinguistics’) and non- lexical words (e.g., psico in psicologia ‘psychology’). This has led to th…
View article: Phonological variation and prosodic representation: clitics in Portuguese-Veneto contact
Phonological variation and prosodic representation: clitics in Portuguese-Veneto contact Open
In a variety of Brazilian Portuguese in contact with Veneto, variable vowel reduction in clitic position can be partially accounted for by the phonotactic profile of clitic structures. We show that, when phonotactic profile is controlled f…
View article: Prosodic effects on pronoun interpretation in Italian
Prosodic effects on pronoun interpretation in Italian Open
In this paper we offer a prosodic account of some well-known L2 findings relating to discourse requirements on pronouns in null subject languages like Italian. Discourse plays a role in determining when a null or overt pronoun in acceptabl…
View article: The acquisition of English stress by Québec Francophones
The acquisition of English stress by Québec Francophones Open
In this chapter, we report the results of two production experiments, one in Canadian French (CF) and one in English, aimed at examining how advanced CF L2ers produce English stress. In other words, our focus is not on language development…
View article: What motivates high vowel deletion in Québec French: foot structure or tonal profile?
What motivates high vowel deletion in Québec French: foot structure or tonal profile? Open
Previous studies have argued that high vowel deletion (HVD) in Québec French is constrained by iterative iambic footing (Guzzo, Goad & Garcia 2016, Garcia, Goad & Guzzo 2017; see also Verluyten 1982), since it preferentially applie…
View article: Probing rhythmic patterns in English-L2: a preliminary study on vowel reduction by Brazilian learners at different ages
Probing rhythmic patterns in English-L2: a preliminary study on vowel reduction by Brazilian learners at different ages Open
Languages are traditionally classified as mora-timed, syllable-timed or stress-timed in relation to their rhythmic patterns. The distinction between syllable-timed and stress-timed languages, however, lacks solid evidence in the literature…
View article: The computation of weight in Portuguese: syllables and intervals
The computation of weight in Portuguese: syllables and intervals Open
Probabilistic approaches have changed the maxim of categoricity often assumed in phonological analyses. With more statistical power, we are now able to perform more comprehensive and detailed analyses, which in turn help us adjust our own …
View article: Footing is not always about stress: formalizing variable high vowel deletion in Québec French
Footing is not always about stress: formalizing variable high vowel deletion in Québec French Open
The existence of foot structure in (Québec) French is disputed, since the only position of obligatory prominence in the language is the right edge of the phonological phrase. In this paper, we propose that a segmental process, namely, high…