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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
Kyle Parrish – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present dissertation examined the initial state of L3 phonology in native speakers of French and German who were Spanish-English bilinguals. The present work analyzed perception (Chapter 3), production (Chapter 4) and the perception production interface (Chapter 5). The results revealed that these bilinguals are influenced by both of their…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Multilingualism
Nagle, Charles L.; Baese-Berk, Melissa M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
One of the basic goals of second language (L2) speech research is to understand the perception-production link, or the relationship between L2 speech perception and L2 speech production. Although many studies have examined the link, they have done so with strikingly different conceptual foci and methods. Even studies that appear to use similar…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech, Auditory Perception, Theory Practice Relationship
Justin Edward Bland – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the perception of unstressed vowel reduction (UVR)--also known as vowel devoicing--in Central Mexican Spanish. UVR is a variable, gradient process in which vowels undergo a constellation of phonetic weakening processes including shortening, devoicing, and apparent deletion (Gordon 1998). While it is…
Descriptors: Vowels, Suprasegmentals, Spanish, Foreign Countries
Thorson, Jill C.; Franklin, Lauren R.; Morgan, James L. – Language Learning and Development, 2023
This study examined how toddler looking to a discourse referent is mediated by the information status of the referent and the pitch contour of the referring expression. Eighteen-month-olds saw a short discourse of three sets of images with the proportion of looking time to a target analyzed during the final image. At test, the information status…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
Shi, Jinyu; Gu, Yan; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Developmental Science, 2023
Child-directed language can support language learning, but how? We addressed two questions: (1) how caregivers prosodically modulated their speech as a function of word familiarity (known or unknown to the child) and accessibility of referent (visually present or absent from the immediate environment); (2) whether such modulations affect…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Language, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
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
Loos, Cornelia; Napoli, Donna Jo – Cognitive Science, 2021
Echo phonology was originally proposed to account for obligatory coordination of manual and mouth articulations observed in several sign languages. However, previous research into the phenomenon lacks clear criteria for which components of movement can or must be copied when the articulators are so different. Nor is there discussion of which…
Descriptors: Human Body, Sign Language, Phonology, Motion
Romøren, Anna Sara H.; Chen, Aoju – Journal of Child Language, 2022
We investigated how Central Swedish-speaking four to eleven-year-old children acquire the prosodic marking of narrow focus, compared to adult controls. Three measurements were analysed: placement of the prominence-marking high tone (prominence H), pitch range effects of the prominence H, and word duration. Subject-verb-object sentences were…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Swedish, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Wade-Woolley, Lesly; Wood, Clare; Chan, Jessica; Weidman, Sarah – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
Referring to the "vital parts" of speech that do not appear in print, E. B. Huey (1908/1968) described prosody in reading as "the rise and fall of pitch and inflection, the hurrying here and slowing there, what we have called the melody of speech." In this paper, we discuss the role prosody plays in reading, contextualized in…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Oral Reading, Phonology
Ortín, Ramsés; Simonet, Miquel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
One feature of Spanish that presents some difficulties to second language (L2) learners whose first language (L1) is English concerns lexical stress. This study explores one aspect of the obstacle these learners face, weak phonological processing routines concerning stress inherited from their native language. Participants were L1 English L2…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Phonology, Suprasegmentals
Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Yuen, Ivan; Holt, Rebecca; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Learning to use word versus phrase level prosody to identify compounds from lists is thought to be a protracted process, only acquired by 11 years (Vogel & Raimy, 2002). However, a recent study has shown that 5-year-olds can use prosodic cues other than stress for these two structures in production, at least for early-acquired noun-noun…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Cues
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
Hassanzadeh, Mohammad; Salehizadeh, Mohammad Javad – TESOL Journal, 2020
Pronunciation instruction has historically been notorious for its intense reliance on repetition practice and mechanical drilling across most foreign and second language settings. However, research indicates that form-focused instruction can be substantially beneficial to the development of phonological skills (Saito, 2012). The current…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pronunciation Instruction, Suprasegmentals
Kocaarslan, Mustafa – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
The aim of this study was to illuminate the relationships between the three components of oral reading fluency, sustained attention, working memory, and text comprehension in typically developing third-grade students (N = 140). The findings of hierarchical regression analysis reveal that speed, accuracy, and prosody together significantly…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Attention Control, Short Term Memory