Language and Speech articles from March 2005

Language and Speech archives from March 2005

Interaction of native- and second-language vowel system(s) in early and late bilinguals.
March 1, 2005... Abstract The objective of this study was to determine how bilinguals' age at the time of language acquisition influenced the organization of their phonetic system(s). The productions of six English and five Korean vowels by English and...

How children and adults produce and perceive uncertainty in audiovisual speech.
March 1, 2005... Abstract We describe two experiments on signaling and detecting uncertainty in audiovisual speech by adults and children. In the first study, utterances from adult speakers and child speakers (aged 7-8) were elicited and annotated with a...

Measures of native and non-native rhythm in a quantity language.
March 1, 2005... Abstract The traditional phonetic classification of language rhythm as stress-timed or syllable-timed is attributed to Pike. Recently, two different proposals have been offered for describing the rhythmic structure of languages from...

Disambiguation of homonyms in real-time Japanese sentence processing: case-markings and thematic constraint.
March 1, 2005... Abstract This paper experimentally examines the effects of the case-markings and the constraint on the assignments and the receptions of thematic roles in Japanese sentence processing. A self-paced reading experiment was carried out with...

Sociolinguistic competence in the complimenting act of native Chinese and American English speakers: a mirror of cultural value.
March 1, 2005... Abstract The present study examines sociolinguistic features of a particular speech act, paying compliments, by comparing and contrasting native Chinese and native American speakers' performances. By focusing on a relatively understudied...