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View article: A web-based mouse-tracking task for early perceptual language processing
A web-based mouse-tracking task for early perceptual language processing Open
The study of language processing requires data from a wide range of languages but also data that are free from demand characteristics and meta-linguistic strategies. While eye-tracking has been successfully used to address the later issue,…
View article: Phonetic reduction in native and non-native English speech: Assessing the intelligibility for L2 listeners
Phonetic reduction in native and non-native English speech: Assessing the intelligibility for L2 listeners Open
This study examines to what extent phonetic reduction in different accents affects intelligibility for non-native (L2) listeners, and whether similar reduction processes in listeners’ first language (L1) facilitate the recognition and proc…
View article: Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances?
Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances? Open
This study investigates the effect of visually perceived gestures on the overall (multimodal) prominence of naturally occurring stimuli extracted from a multimodal corpus of Maltese conversations. Experiment participants were required to r…
View article: Flexibility and Stability in Lexical Tone Recalibration: Evidence from Tone Perceptual Learning
Flexibility and Stability in Lexical Tone Recalibration: Evidence from Tone Perceptual Learning Open
Listeners adjust their perception of sound categories when confronted with variations in speech. Previous research on speech recalibration has primarily focused on segmental variation, demonstrating that recalibration tends to be specific …
View article: Perceptie van een anderstalig accent: Een experimentele studie naar de perceptieve aanpassing aan een exogeen geaccentueerd Nederlands klinkercontrast
Perceptie van een anderstalig accent: Een experimentele studie naar de perceptieve aanpassing aan een exogeen geaccentueerd Nederlands klinkercontrast Open
This study examines whether Dutch L1 listeners adapt to Italian accented Dutch vowels, and how short-term experience with one L2 speaker’s accent might help these listeners to understand novel words and other L2 speakers with a similar acc…
View article: Lexically Mediated Compensation for Coarticulation Still as Elusive as a White Christmash
Lexically Mediated Compensation for Coarticulation Still as Elusive as a White Christmash Open
Luthra, Peraza‐Santiago, Beeson, Saltzman, Crinnion, and Magnuson (2021) present data from the lexically mediated compensation for coarticulation paradigm that they claim provides conclusive evidence in favor of top‐down processing in spee…
View article: Selective adaptation of German /r/: A role for perceptual saliency
Selective adaptation of German /r/: A role for perceptual saliency Open
In three experiments, we examined selective adaptation of German /r/ depending on the positional and allophonic overlap between adaptors and targets. A previous study had shown that selective adaptation effects with /r/ in Dutch require al…
View article: A “names-as-fixed-effect fallacy” in studies of name-based racial discrimination
A “names-as-fixed-effect fallacy” in studies of name-based racial discrimination Open
Microbial communities are found throughout the biosphere, from human guts to glaciers, from soil to activated sludge. Understanding the statistical properties of such diverse communities can pave the way to elucidate the common mechanisms …
View article: Limits of audience design: Epenthetic glottal stops in Maltese
Limits of audience design: Epenthetic glottal stops in Maltese Open
Many languages tend to mark vowel-initial words with a glottal stop in connected speech, especially when that word is in a prominent position (Garellek, 2014). This also happens in Maltese, even though the glottal stop here also occurs as …
View article: Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops
Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops Open
This study explores processing characteristics of a glottal stop in Maltese which occurs both as a phoneme and as an epenthetic stop for vowel-initial words. Experiment 1 shows that its hyperarticulation is not necessarily mapped onto an u…
View article: Does learning to read change the perception of speech? Evidence from perceptual recalibration of speech sounds in adult illiterates, semi-literates, and literates of Tamil
Does learning to read change the perception of speech? Evidence from perceptual recalibration of speech sounds in adult illiterates, semi-literates, and literates of Tamil Open
How do different levels of representation interact in the mind? Key evidence for answering this question comes from experimental work that investigates the influence of knowledge of written language on spoken language processing. Here we t…
View article: Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops
Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops Open
This study explores processing characteristics of a glottal stop in Maltese which occurs both as a phoneme and as an epenthetic stop for vowel-initial words. Experiment 1 shows that its hyperarticulation is not necessarily mapped onto an u…
View article: Datasets on the production and perception of underlying and epenthetic glottal stops in Maltese
Datasets on the production and perception of underlying and epenthetic glottal stops in Maltese Open
This article provides some supplementary analysis data of speech production and perception of glottal stops in the Semitic language Maltese. In Maltese, a glottal stop can occur as a phoneme, but also as a phonetic marker of vowel-initial …
My English sounds better than yours: Second-language learners perceive their own accent as better than that of their peers Open
Second language (L2) learners are often aware of the typical pronunciation errors that speakers of their native language make, yet often persist in making these errors themselves. We hypothesised that L2 learners may perceive their own acc…
View article: How are words reduced in spontaneous speech?
How are words reduced in spontaneous speech? Open
Words are reduced in spontaneous speech. If reductions are constrained by functional (i.e., perception and production) constraints, they should not be arbitrary. This hypothesis was tested by examing the pronunciations of high- to mid-freq…
View article: The glottal stop between segmental and suprasegmental processing: The case of Maltese
The glottal stop between segmental and suprasegmental processing: The case of Maltese Open
Many languages mark vowel-initial words with a glottal stop. We show that this occurs in Maltese, even though the glottal stop also occurs as a phoneme in Maltese. As a consequence, words with and without an underlying (phonemic) glottal s…
A time course of prosodic modulation in phonological inferencing: The case of Korean post-obstruent tensing Open
Application of a phonological rule is often conditioned by prosodic structure, which may create a potential perceptual ambiguity, calling for phonological inferencing. Three eye-tracking experiments were conducted to examine how spoken wor…
View article: The singleton-geminate distinction can be rate dependent: Evidence from Maltese
The singleton-geminate distinction can be rate dependent: Evidence from Maltese Open
Many languages distinguish short and long consonants, or singletons and geminates. The primary acoustic correlate of this distinction is the duration of the consonants. Given that the absolute duration of speech sounds varies with speech r…
View article: How important is prediction for understanding spontaneous speech
How important is prediction for understanding spontaneous speech Open
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View article: Materials for "What sound symbolism can and cannot do: testing the iconicity of ideophones from five languages"
Materials for "What sound symbolism can and cannot do: testing the iconicity of ideophones from five languages" Open
Methods and materials for the following paper: Dingemanse, Mark, Will Schuerman, Eva Reinisch, Sylvia Tufvesson, and Holger Mitterer. 2016. “What Sound Symbolism Can and Cannot Do: Testing the Iconicity of Ideophones from Five Languages.” …