scholarly journals Acoustic cues for /θ/ in American English

1995 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 2892-2892
Author(s):  
Nicholas Kibre ◽  
Kazue Hata
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Cues

scholarly journals English negative concord and double negation: The division of labor between syntax and pragmatics

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Blanchette ◽  
Marianna Nadeu ◽  
Jeremy Yeaton ◽  
Viviane Deprez
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
American English ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Negative Concord ◽  
Double Negation

Recent research demonstrates that prototypical negative concord (NC) languages allow double negation (DN) (Espinal & Prieto 2011; Prieto et al. 2013; Déprez et al. 2015; Espinal et al. 2016). In NC, two or more syntactic negations yield a single semantic one (e.g., the ‘I ate nothing’ reading of “I didn’t eat nothing”), and in DN each negation contributes to the semantics (e.g. ‘It is not the case that I ate nothing’). That NC and DN have been shown to coexist calls into question the hypothesis that grammars are either NC or DN (Zeijlstra 2004), and supports micro-parametric views of these phenomena (Déprez 2011; Blanchette 2017). Our study informs this debate with new experimental data from American English. We explore the role of syntax and speaker intent in shaping the perception and interpretation of English sentences with two negatives. Our results demonstrate that, like in prototypical NC languages (Espinal et al. 2016), English speakers reliably exploit syntactic, pragmatic, and acoustic cues to in selecting an NC or a DN interpretation.

Acoustic cues to stop coda voicing contrasts in 1 to 2‐year‐olds’ American English.

2009 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 2570-2570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Demuth ◽  
Stefanie Shattuck‐Hufnagel ◽  
Jae Yung Song ◽  
Karen Evans ◽  
Jeremy Kuhn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Cues

Acoustic cues to stop-coda voicing contrasts in the speech of 2-3-year-olds learning American English

2011 ◽  
pp. 327-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel ◽  
Katherine Demuth ◽  
Helen M. Hanson ◽  
Kenneth N. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Cues

scholarly journals The development of acoustic cues to coda contrasts in young children learning American English

2012 ◽  
Vol 131 (4) ◽  
pp. 3036-3050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Yung Song ◽  
Katherine Demuth ◽  
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Cues

Acoustic and Perceptual Characteristics of Mandarin Speech in Gay and Heterosexual Male Speakers

2021 ◽  
pp. 002383092110007
Author(s):  
Puyang Geng ◽  
Wentao Gu
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
American English ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Acoustic Parameters ◽  
Heterosexual Male ◽  
Monosyllabic Words ◽  
Perceptual Characteristics ◽  
Voice Fundamental Frequency

This study investigated acoustic and perceptual characteristics of Mandarin speech produced by gay and heterosexual male speakers. Acoustic analysis of monosyllabic words showed significant differences between the two groups in voice fundamental frequency (F0), F1 of low vowel, and duration of aspiration/frication in consonants. The acoustic patterns on F0, formants, and center of gravity as well as spectral skewness of /s/ differed from those reported for Western languages like American English, which could be interpreted from a sociopsychological point of view based on different acceptability of gay identity in the two societies. The results of a perceptual experiment revealed significant but weak correlations between the acoustic parameters and the score of perceived gayness, which was significantly higher on gay speech than on heterosexual male speech. Although the observed F0 and F1 patterns in Mandarin gay speech were opposite to the stereotype of gayness, gay identity can still be identified to some extent from speech due to the existence of other acoustic cues such as a longer fricative duration, which is not a stereotype of gayness but has been consistently observed in Mandarin and Western languages.

Some acoustic cues for categorizing American English regional dialects

2001 ◽  
Vol 109 (5) ◽  
pp. 2292-2292
Author(s):  
Cynthia G. Clopper ◽  
David B. Pisoni
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Regional Dialects
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