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View article: A role for features in speech perception
A role for features in speech perception Open
Archibald’s article makes a strong case for abstract symbolic representations in the phonological grammars of second language learners/users (L2ers). The evidence he brings to bear on this comes principally from the prosodic domain. Howeve…
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: Investigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions
Investigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions Open
Certain phonotactic constraints on the co-occurrence of segments appear to be much more common across the world’s languages than others. In many languages, similar consonant co-occurrence is restricted through Obligatory Contour Principle …
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: 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: 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: Weight sensitivity and prominence in Laurentian French
Weight sensitivity and prominence in Laurentian French Open
Main prominence is conventionally described as being assigned to the final syllable of phrases in French, but previous quantitative and qualitative work has shown that this is not always the case. Using corpus data from Laurentian French (…
View article: L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese
L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese Open
Feature-based approaches to acquisition principally focus on second language (L2) learners’ ability to perceive non-native consonants when the features required are either contrastively present or entirely absent from the first language (L…
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: 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: 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: 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…
View article: L2 acquisition of high vowel deletion in Quebec French
L2 acquisition of high vowel deletion in Quebec French Open
In languages with lexical stress, stress is computed in the phonological word (PWd) and realized in the foot. In some of these languages, feet are constructed iteratively, yielding multiple stressed syllables in a PWd. English has this pro…
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 paper 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 n…
View article: Prosodic focus in English vs. French: A scope account
Prosodic focus in English vs. French: A scope account Open
We compare the use of prosodic prominence in English and French to convey focus. While previous studies have found these languages, and Germanic vs. Romance more generally, to differ in their use of prominence to encode focus (e.g., Ladd 1…
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 applies in eve…
View article: Overriding default interpretations through prosody: Depictive predicates in Brazilian Portuguese
Overriding default interpretations through prosody: Depictive predicates in Brazilian Portuguese Open
In Brazilian Portuguese, depictive predicates can have ambiguous readings: the attribute can either refer to the subject (high attachment; HA) or the object (low attachment; LA) of the sentence. Previous studies have found that LA is the d…
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…
View article: Using Event-Related Brain Potentials to Assess Perceptibility: The Case of French Speakers and English [h]
Using Event-Related Brain Potentials to Assess Perceptibility: The Case of French Speakers and English [h] Open
French speaking learners of English encounter persistent difficulty acquiring English [h], thus confusing words like eat and heat in both production and perception. We assess the hypothesis that the acoustic properties of [h] may render de…