Download or read book The Production of Consonant Clusters written by Daniel Recasens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzes the articulatory motivation of several adaptation processes (place assimilations, blending, coarticulation) involving consecutive consonants in heterosyllabic consonant sequences within the framework of the degree of articulatory constraint model of coarticulation. It also shows that the homorganic relationship between two heterosyllabic consonants contributes to the implementation of manner assimilations, while heterorganicity as well as sonorancy and voicing in the syllable-onset C2 are key factors in the weakening of the syllable-coda C1. Experimental and descriptive evidence is provided with production, phonological and sound change data from several languages, and more especifically with tongue-to-palate contact and lingual configuration data for Catalan consonant sequences. The book also reviews critically research on the c-center effect in tautosyllabic consonant sequences which has been carried out during the last thirty years.

Download or read book The Production of Consonant Clusters written by Daniel Recasens and published by De Gruyter Mouton. This book was released on 2018 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzes the articulatory motivation of several adaptation processes (place assimilations, blending, coarticulation) involving consecutive consonants in heterosyllabic consonant sequences within the framework of the degree of articulatory constraint model of coarticulation. It also shows that the homorganic relationship between two heterosyllabic consonants contributes to the implementation of manner assimilations, while heterorganicity as well as sonorancy and voicing in the syllable-onset C2 are key factors in the weakening of the syllable-coda C1. Experimental and descriptive evidence is provided with production, phonological and sound change data from several languages, and more especifically with tongue-to-palate contact and lingual configuration data for Catalan consonant sequences. The book also reviews critically research on the c-center effect in tautosyllabic consonant sequences which has been carried out during the last thirty years.

Download or read book Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity written by Philip Hoole and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is currently a wealth of activity involving the analysis of complex segmental sequences from phonetic, phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives. This volume draws from selected contributions to the conference Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity held in Munich in August 2008. Consonant sequences, whether occurring within individual lexical items or emerging in running speech at word boundaries, give particularly striking evidence for the temporal complexity of human speech. But contributions also consider the integration of tonal and vocalic elements into syllable structure. The main aim of the volume is to do justice to this complexity by bringing together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds. The book is organized into four main sections entitled ‘Phonology and Typology’, ‘Production: Analysis and Models’, ‘Acquisition’, and ‘Assimilation and reduction in connected speech’.

Download or read book Intelligibility Oral Communication and the Teaching of Pronunciation written by John M. Levis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.

Download or read book Segmental and Prosodic Aspects in the Production of Consonant Clusters written by Lasse Bombien and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Korean Speakers Production of English Consonant Clusters written by Bo-Young Kwon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Temporal Aspects of Children s Production of Consonant Clusters written by Barbara Anne Purves and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Emergence of Phonology written by Marilyn M. Vihman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well have classic ideas on whole-word phonology stood the test of time? Waterson claimed that each child has a system of their own; Ferguson and Farwell emphasized the relative accuracy of first words; Menn noted the occurrence of regression and the emergence of phonological systematicity. This volume brings together classic texts such as these with current data-rich studies of British and American English, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French, Japanese, Polish and Spanish. This combination of classic and contemporary work from the last thirty years presents the reader with cutting-edge perspectives on child language by linking historical approaches with current ideas such as exemplar theory and usage-based phonology, and contrasting state-of-the-art perspectives from developmental psychology and linguistics. This is a valuable resource for cognitive scientists, developmentalists, linguists, psychologists, speech scientists and therapists interested in understanding how children begin to use language without the benefit of language-specific innate knowledge.

Download or read book The Developing Organization of Speech Production in Children written by Caroline Sarah Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phonological Features of the Consonant System of African American Vernacular English written by Hanna Krause and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This term paper will give a descriptive summary of the sound patterns used in African American vernacular English, but will also go further by discussing the linguistic environments in which such patterns occur. It is restricted to the phonological features of the consonant system of African American vernacular English (AAVE) and does not deal with the characteristics of the vowel system. Furthermore, this term paper should show that speakers of AAVE do not haphazardly insert and delete sound and that it is not fair to evaluate the sounds as “lazy speech” since the patterns used in the sound system of AAVE are completely regular and the way in which sound combinations occur, is very systematic and based on defined rules. This work also tries to make clear what AAVE is and in which ways it is different and similar to general American and Standard English. The first chapter introduces two different theories about the question how African American English might have been developed. In some contexts, it has been suggested that the pattern of final consonant sounds in AAE has similarities with the pattern of final consonant sounds in West African languages. Part two deals with the feature of consonant cluster reduction, which has received the most attention in the phonological studies of AAE. Speakers do not always say the same thing the same way all the time, of course, so the percentage rate of reduction may be greater for some speakers than others Chapter 3 focuses on the fact that interdental fricatives, represented orthographically by th in Standard English, are often realized by labio- dental fricatives among some AAE speakers. It reveals that voicing value of consonant sounds plays a major role in the production of sounds. For example /f/ and /v/ occur in environments in which voiceless th and voiced th occur in Standard English. Part 4 concentrates on the feature of devoicing and especially on the correlation of the variable /d/ with social class. Data adopted from Wolfram helps to study the speech of Negroes from several socio- economic levels and shows the relationship between the use of sound patterns and extralingusitic factors. Chapter 5 continues the discussion of consonants, focusing on the liquids /r/ and /l/. It explains environments in which /r/ is not produced by speakers of AAE. The last chapter lists some other phonological features of AAVE, but not in a detailed way, as there is not enough data available.

Download or read book The Developing Organisation of Speech Production in Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Processing German Initial Consonant Clusters written by Sophia Wulfert and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This book presents three experimental studies of sublexical speech processing that aim to answer the question how universal principles of syllabic wellformedness like the Sonority Sequencing Principle, on the one hand, and experience with language-specific phonotactic distributions, on the other hand, influence perception and production of German initial consonant clusters. Effects of consonant cluster frequency and sonority sequencing are compared in a) an experiment of pseudoword identification in noise with native German listeners, b) a parallel experiment with Australian learners of German, and c) an experiment of pseudoword repetition in a tongue twister paradigm. The results of these experiments have implications for the roles of universal vs. language-specific sound sequencing preferences in sublexical processing. The non-native listening experiment moreover allows for a comparison of the roles of native-language vs. target-language cluster frequencies in speech perception. Against the background of usage-based linguistics and connectionist models of speech perception and production, this book expounds the mechanisms at work during the processing of consonant clusters. It discusses their role as potential units in speech perception and explores possibilities for consonant clusters having their own mental representations. A striking parallel is revealed between perception and production of consonant clusters in terms of which factors and principles facilitate or hamper their processing. It is one of the first works to demonstrate frequency effects for consonant clusters. Sophia Wulfert studied General Linguistics at the Technische Universität Berlin and Scandinavian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2015 to 2018, she was a member of the doctoral research training group "DFG GRK 1624: Frequency effects in language" at the University of Freiburg. This book is a revised version of her dissertation, which she defended in December 2021

Download or read book The Production and Manipulation of s Consonant Clusters by Phonological Dyslexics written by Susan C. Mugford and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gestural Coordination of Modern Greek Consonant Clusters written by Evdoxia Doli and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consonant clusters are groups of consonants not interrupted by a vowel and are produced by a set of articulatory gestures that coordinate in time. Little is known about which factors affect the temporal overlap of these gestures. Articulatory Phonology (AP), an influential speech production theory that seeks to explain syllable organization patterns across languages, provides a useful framework for identifying articulatory landmarks and determining the temporal overlap of consonant clusters. According to AP, when consonants are added to the onset of a syllable, thus forming a consonant cluster (CCV), the timing of articulatory gestures readjusts, and the midpoint of these gestures remains the same as the midpoint of a syllable formed by a single consonant in its onset (CV). This phenomenon of temporal readjustment of gestures is known as the 0́−c-center effect0́+. Previous literature examining the onset of different languages has shown that the 0́−c-center effect0́+ is not universal, as onsets in some languages demonstrate this effect (i.e., complex onsets), while onsets in other languages do not (i.e., simple onsets). Studies of clusters in different languages have suggested that three motoric factors can affect the temporal organization of an onset: (1) the place-order effect (POE), a motoric factor with perceptual implications, (2) the number of articulators (NART) forming a syllable (dependent and independent articulators) and (3) the degree of articulatory constraint (DAC), a principle that classifies speech sounds according to how much they resist coarticulation. This dissertation has three goals: First, to determine the temporal organization profile of consonant clusters in Standard Modern Greek, a language rich in clusters produced at different places of articulation (i.e., bilabial, labiodental, interdental, alveolar, velar) a language with little kinematic description. Second, to document the extent to which the three motoric factors (POE, NART, and DAC), considered individually or in combination, explain these temporal patterns. Third, to validate the AP claim of determining complex/simple temporal patterns based on displacement data by performing classification based on machine learning algorithms on subsets of the Modern Greek data. Seven native speakers of Modern Greek were recruited and instructed to produce words starting with consonant clusters and singletons. Their productions were recorded with the use of an 3D electromagnetic articulograph. The results suggested that 8/11 clusters examined were produced with a simple temporal organization (i.e., not 0́−c-centered0́+), and all speakers were able to produce both complex and simple clusters. Next, it was analyzed which factors (i.e, POE, DAC, NART) or factor combination yielded the highest accuracy in predicting the temporal organization of these eleven clusters. The results revealed that the place-order effect, the only motoric factor with perceptual implications, had the highest accuracy (54%). This finding suggests that perceptual constrains can affect gestural overlap in speech production. No factor combination predicted the temporal profile of clusters with high accuracy; thus, it appears that factor predictions should rather be considered independently when predicting the temporal profile of consonant clusters. Machine learning algorithms (random forest and an artificial neural network) were used to determine the simple/complex profile of Greek clusters through the classification of raw kinematic (displacement) data. Two different approaches were applied: the first was to examine whether machine learning algorithms could predict the temporal profile of newly introduced clusters and the second to test the model0́9s ability to generalize to different speakers. The results showed that these algorithms were able to predict cluster temporal organization with 66% overall accuracy for the artificial neural network and 70% accuracy for the random forest, supporting the methodological approach of AP for determining the temporal organization based on kinematic data. In addition, the models were able to generalize better to new speakers, mainly because inter- and intra-talker variability in the data set was relatively small. Future work, including the analysis of a larger data set, is needed to better assess which factors and machine learning algorithms can predict clusters0́9 temporal organization most accurately. Overall, this dissertation provides new information for the field of speech production, regarding motor factors that affect temporal overlap and contributes to the elaboration of the theoretical framework of Articulatory Phonology with the use of machine learning algorithms.

Download or read book Production of Onset Consonant Clusters sequences by Adult Japanese Learners of English written by Chris D. Martz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty native Japanese adults were asked to participate in this study. This population was chosen because East Asian ESL learners in general are particularly interesting to study in terms of acquisition because their native languages (L1s) are strikingly different from English. Participants had to pass a hearing screening to participate, and were tested to determine their phonetic inventories. They were then given an experimental task in which they had to produce words containing onset clusters/sequences---half the words were elicited with orthography, half with pictures for identification.

Download or read book Learning Phonotactic Constraints in the Production of Non native Consonant Clusters as Reflected in Speech Errors written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Problem Book in Phonology written by Morris Halle and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1983-03-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides hands-on experience with a major area of modern phonology, including phonetics; phonetic variation; natural classes of sounds; alternations; rule systems; and prosodic phonology. Working with problems is an essential part of courses that introduce students to modern phonology. This book provides hands-on experience with a major area of modern phonology, including phonetics; phonetic variation; natural classes of sounds; alternations; rule systems; and prosodic phonology. An introductory essay gives an overview of some of the principal results and assumptions of current phonological theory. The problems are taken from a wide variety of languages, and many are drawn from the authors' firsthand research. All have been used by the authors in their introductory courses, primarily at Harvard and MIT, and are meant to be used in conjunction with a textbook and/or other materials provided by the classroom instructor.