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Angelica Buerkin-Pontrelli; Daniel Swingley – Developmental Science, 2025
When infants hear sentences containing unfamiliar words, are some language-world links (such as noun-object) more readily formed than others (verb-predicate)? We examined English learning 14-15-month-olds' capacity for linking referents in scenes with bisyllabic nonce utterances. Each of the two syllables referred either to the object's identity,…
Descriptors: Infants, Phrase Structure, Verbs, Language Acquisition
Myers, Brett R.; Watson, Duane G. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Rhythmic structure in speech is characterized by sequences of stressed and unstressed syllables. A large body of literature suggests that speakers of English attempt to achieve rhythmic harmony by evenly distributing stressed syllables throughout prosodic phrases. The question remains as to how speakers plan metrical structure during speech…
Descriptors: Speech, Suprasegmentals, Syllables, Phonemes
Marilyn May Vihman; Mitsuhiko Ota; Tamar Keren-Portnoy; Shanshan Lou; Rui Qi Choo – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Variegation - the presence of more than one supraglottal consonant per word - is a key challenge for children as they increase their expressive vocabulary toward the end of the single-word period. Here we consider the prosodic structures of target words and child forms in English, Finnish, French, Japanese and Mandarin to determine whether…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Suprasegmentals, English, Finno Ugric Languages
Dufour, Sophie; Grainger, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
In this study we asked whether nonwords created by transposing two phonemes (/biks[open-mid back rounded vowel]t/) are perceived as being more similar to their base words (/bisk[open-mid back rounded vowel]t/) than nonwords created by substituting two phonemes (/bipf[open-mid back rounded vowel]t/). Using the short-term phonological priming and a…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Word Recognition, Phonemes, Vowels
Schmidt, Barbara Maria; Breuer-Küppers, Petra; Vahlhaus-Aretz, Doris; Obergfell, Anja Larissa; Schabmann, Alfred – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
There are contradictory findings in the literature about prosodic sensitivity's contribution to reading. In this study, we examined whether prosodic sensitivity makes a unique contribution to different reading outcomes in German after controlling for the effects of phonological awareness. Word reading, nonword reading and sentence reading as well…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonological Awareness, Phonemes, Predictor Variables
Abu Guba, Mohammed Nour – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This paper examines the understudied phenomenon of consonant gemination in the pronunciation of English among Levantine Arabic learners of English (LA learners). The very few studies that touched on gemination among LA learners attributed gemination to spelling in the target language (English). This study challenges this analysis and demonstrates…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Orthographic Symbols, Second Language Learning, Phonology
Joshi, Puskar; Eslami, Zohreh R.; Rivera, Hector H. – ORTESOL Journal, 2023
This paper explored and analyzed features of English pronunciation that could cause intelligibility problems for Nepali English learners (ELs), who use English as a foreign language (EFL) or English as a second language (ESL). We examined the Nepali ELs' pronunciation issues by juxtaposing them with comparable segmental and suprasegmental features…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation
Meigh, Kimberly M.; Cobun, Emily; Yunusova, Yana – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Lexical stress and phoneme processes converge during phonological encoding, but the nature of the convergence has been debated. Stress patterns and phonemes may be integrated automatically and rigidly, resulting in a unified representation. Alternatively, stress and phoneme may be processed interactively based on sublexical contexts. The…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Suprasegmentals, Repetition, Adults
Yu, Luodi; Huang, Dan; Wang, Suiping; Zhang, Yang – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Children with autism often show atypical brain lateralization for speech and language processing, however, it is unclear what linguistic component contributes to this phenomenon. Here we measured event-related potential (ERP) responses in 21 school-age autistic children and 25 age-matched neurotypical (NT) peers during listening to word-level…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Lateral Dominance
Turco, Giuseppina; Zerbian, Sabine – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
A phoneme-detection task shows that listeners of Sepedi use semantic information in processing but not prosody (Experiment 1). Sepedi is a language with no grammaticalised prosodic expression of focus. Sepedi listeners detected phoneme targets faster when the phoneme-bearing words were focussed (as opposed to unfocussed) but not when occurring in…
Descriptors: African Languages, Phonemes, Semantics, Suprasegmentals
Labusch, Melanie; Massol, Stéphanie; Marcet, Ana; Perea, Manuel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
An often overlooked but fundamental issue for any comprehensive model of visual-word recognition is the representation of diacritical vowels: Do diacritical and nondiacritical vowels share their abstract letter representations? Recent research suggests that the answer is "yes" in languages where diacritics indicate suprasegmental…
Descriptors: Vowels, Distinctive Features (Language), French, Pronunciation
Huensch, Amanda; Nagle, Charlie – Language Learning, 2021
This study investigated the relationship among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in the speech of second language learners of Spanish of varying proficiency in instructed contexts. It conceptually replicated studies by Munro and Derwing (1995a) and Derwing and Munro (1997), who found partial independence among the three speech…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Learning, Comprehension, Dialects
Clifton Pye – First Language, 2024
The Mayan language Mam uses complex predicates to express events. Complex predicates map multiple semantic elements onto a single word, and consequently have a blend of lexical and phrasal features. The chameleon-like nature of complex predicates provides a window on children's ability to express phrasal combinations at the one-word stage of…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, American Indian Languages, Vowels
Uzun, Tarik – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
Intelligibility is a critically important aspect for effective oral communication. This study explored salient (important) pronunciation errors and their relative roles in the intelligibility of nonnative speech based on listener judgments. Speech samples, collected from speakers with a Turkish as a native language (L1) background, were presented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Intelligibility, Oral Language
Myers, Brett R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Language has a rhythmic structure, but little is known about the mechanisms that underlie how it is planned. Traditional models of language production assume that metrical and segmental planning occur independently and in parallel (Roelofs & Meyer, 1998). We test this claim in three experiments. In Experiment 1, participants completed an…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Phonemes, Suprasegmentals