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STUDY OF THE TEACHING OF LIAISON IN A SAMPLING OF ELEMENTARY AND INTERMEDIATE FRENCH AUDIO-LINGUAL MATERIALS
Title
A STUDY OF THE TEACHING OF LIAISON IN A SAMPLING OF ELEMENTARY AND INTERMEDIATE FRENCH AUDIO-LINGUAL MATERIALS.
Creator
MARTIN, MARIE MICHELLE., Florida Atlantic University, Trammell, Robert L.
Abstract/Description
Many textbooks either ignore or pay scant attention to instruction on liaison. Commercial tapes designed to teach students by example seldom provide good or consistent models for its use. Nevertheless, since the process of liaison is a compli cated phenomenon even for the French, it deserves careful pedagogical attention. This thesis presents a study of the adequacy of instruction on liaison in four sample texts and tapes. It also includes a definition and brief history of liaison, a...
Show moreMany textbooks either ignore or pay scant attention to instruction on liaison. Commercial tapes designed to teach students by example seldom provide good or consistent models for its use. Nevertheless, since the process of liaison is a compli cated phenomenon even for the French, it deserves careful pedagogical attention. This thesis presents a study of the adequacy of instruction on liaison in four sample texts and tapes. It also includes a definition and brief history of liaison, a statement of its function, and some general rules for students. Particular emphasis is placed on the function of optional liaison as a stylistic determinant.
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Date Issued
1972
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13509
Subject Headings
French language--Phonetics
Format
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ACOUSTIC CONSIDERATION OF TENSENESS IN SOME FRENCH AND ENGLISH VOWELS
Title
AN ACOUSTIC CONSIDERATION OF TENSENESS IN SOME FRENCH AND ENGLISH VOWELS.
Creator
SWIFT, PATRICIA WORRELL, Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description
This thesis investigates articulatory tenseness in French and English oral vowels. Chapter I reviews notions of tenseness, Chapter II presents experimental procedure, Chapter III contains results and conclusions. Tense vowels within a language demonstrate greater formant frequency deviation from a neutral vowel position than lax vowels. The deviations of the French nuclei [...] and the English nuclei [...] are compared using spectrograms made from recordings of Standard French and American...
Show moreThis thesis investigates articulatory tenseness in French and English oral vowels. Chapter I reviews notions of tenseness, Chapter II presents experimental procedure, Chapter III contains results and conclusions. Tense vowels within a language demonstrate greater formant frequency deviation from a neutral vowel position than lax vowels. The deviations of the French nuclei [...] and the English nuclei [...] are compared using spectrograms made from recordings of Standard French and American English speakers. Measurement is based on the difference in Hertz of the first three formant frequencies of each vowel and the corresponding frequencies of the neutral vowel position of that language. The French nuclei [...] exhibit greater deviation than the English nuclei [...] from their respective neutral vowel positions and are said to be comparatively more tense. The same measurement and criteria show that the English nuclei [...] are comparatively more tense than their French counterparts.
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Date Issued
1972
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13536
Subject Headings
French language--Vowels, English language--Vowels, French language--Phonetics, English language--Phonetics
Format
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ACOUSTIC AND PERCEPTUAL STUDY OF SHORT AND LONG /A/ IN MODERN GERMAN
Title
AN ACOUSTIC AND PERCEPTUAL STUDY OF SHORT AND LONG /A/ IN MODERN GERMAN.
Creator
LUDMER, MORRIS STANLEY., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Date Issued
1971
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13419
Subject Headings
German language--Phonetics, German language--Vowels
Format
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EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF THE PHONEMIC STATUS OF OPEN AND CLOSED VOWELS IN SPANISH
Title
AN EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF THE PHONEMIC STATUS OF OPEN AND CLOSED VOWELS IN SPANISH.
Creator
HAMMOND, ROBERT M., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description
The phoneme /s/ appEars as the sibilant [s] in standard Spanish and has a high functional load. In those dialects of Spanish in which /s/ --> [ø], however, the question arises as to how, apart from context, those morphological distinctions carried by /s/ are maintained. This study attempts to verify experimentally the often-repeated hypothesis that a compensatory phonemic change in quality takes place in the vowel immediately preceding this [ø] allophone of /s/ in syllable-final and word...
Show moreThe phoneme /s/ appEars as the sibilant [s] in standard Spanish and has a high functional load. In those dialects of Spanish in which /s/ --> [ø], however, the question arises as to how, apart from context, those morphological distinctions carried by /s/ are maintained. This study attempts to verify experimentally the often-repeated hypothesis that a compensatory phonemic change in quality takes place in the vowel immediately preceding this [ø] allophone of /s/ in syllable-final and word-final positions. Speech samples were elicited from four native speakers of Cuban Spanish; a perception test was constructed from these samples and was administered to 20 test subjects. The items used on the perception test were also studied spectrographically. In neither the acoustic nor the perceptual portions of this study could we find evidence of any phonemicization of differences in vowel quality before word-final /s/ --> [ø]. This investigation did show that vowel length is phonemic, in this particular dialect of Spanish, in syllable-final position before /s/ appearing as [ø]. A significant increase in vowel length provided the test subjects used in this study with sufficient acoustic cues to correctly discriminate pairs of words such as patillas [patiyas] and pastillas [paøtiyas] at a rate of 91.6%.
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Date Issued
1973
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13599
Subject Headings
Spanish language--Dialects--Phonetics, Spanish language--Phonemics
Format
Document (PDF)
Response to Audiovisual Nonnative Phonemic Contrasts Does Not Decline in Infancy
Title
Response to Audiovisual Nonnative Phonemic Contrasts Does Not Decline in Infancy.
Creator
Sowinski, Ryan C., Lewkowicz, David J., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
Previous research has demonstrated that sensitivity to unimodal nonnative speech contrasts generally narrows during the first year. Although other work has demonstrated a processing advantage for multimodal stimuli, research on infants' responsiveness to nonnative contrasts so far has not examined whether concurrent auditory and visual speech information can modulate perceptual narrowing. Thus, the current study investigated the influence ofbimodally specified speech sounds on infants'...
Show morePrevious research has demonstrated that sensitivity to unimodal nonnative speech contrasts generally narrows during the first year. Although other work has demonstrated a processing advantage for multimodal stimuli, research on infants' responsiveness to nonnative contrasts so far has not examined whether concurrent auditory and visual speech information can modulate perceptual narrowing. Thus, the current study investigated the influence ofbimodally specified speech sounds on infants' sensitivity to a nonnative phonemic contrast. Six-month-old and 10- to 12-month-old infants were tested in a habituation/test procedure for discrimination of an audiovisual nonnative speech contrast (Hindi /tal dental vs. /Tal retroflex stop). Findings showed that infants at both ages exhibited evidence of discrimination following habituation to one of the speech sounds. These findings suggest that the usually observed decline in responsiveness to nonnative speech contrasts is limited to audibly specified contrasts and that concurrent visual speech information enhances the discriminability of such contrasts.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000835
Subject Headings
Language acquisition, Speech perception, Perceptual learning, Psycholinguistics, Phonetics--Research
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dynamical approach to directional pitch change
Title
A dynamical approach to directional pitch change.
Creator
Giangrande, Janice, Florida Atlantic University, Tuller, Betty
Abstract/Description
The convention of representing pitch distances within a circular symmetric scheme has a long history. Perception of the pitch pattern of pairs of circular tones (Shepard, 1964) was examined in three different orderings of the comparison tone. Consistent with previous reports, when tone pairs were randomized the pitch was equally likely to be judged as ascending or descending as the frequency change neared the half-octave. In the ordered conditions, the pitch boundary was sensitive to the...
Show moreThe convention of representing pitch distances within a circular symmetric scheme has a long history. Perception of the pitch pattern of pairs of circular tones (Shepard, 1964) was examined in three different orderings of the comparison tone. Consistent with previous reports, when tone pairs were randomized the pitch was equally likely to be judged as ascending or descending as the frequency change neared the half-octave. In the ordered conditions, the pitch boundary was sensitive to the direction of frequency change such that hysteresis effects were observed for all subjects. A matrix was constructed of directional pitch judgments to all pairs of circular tones presented randomly. Perception of selected pairs was then predicted on the basis of map region consistency. The results indicate that perception of pitch change is influenced not only by the frequency difference between members of a pair, but also by preceding percepts.
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Date Issued
1993
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14949
Subject Headings
Musical pitch, Music--Acoustics and physics, Intonation (Phonetics)
Format
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No bones about it (or are there?)
Title
No bones about it (or are there?): evaluating markedness constraints on structural representations of the phonology skeleton.
Creator
Causey, Kayla B., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
Linguistic research suggests that speakers represent syllable structure by a CV-frame. CVC syllables are more frequent than VCC ones. Further, the presence of VCC syllables in a language asymmetrically implies the presence of CVC syllables. These typological facts may reflect grammatical constraints. Alternatively, people's preferences may be due solely to their sensitivity to the statistical properties of sound combinations in their language. I demonstrate that participants in an auditory...
Show moreLinguistic research suggests that speakers represent syllable structure by a CV-frame. CVC syllables are more frequent than VCC ones. Further, the presence of VCC syllables in a language asymmetrically implies the presence of CVC syllables. These typological facts may reflect grammatical constraints. Alternatively, people's preferences may be due solely to their sensitivity to the statistical properties of sound combinations in their language. I demonstrate that participants in an auditory lexical decision task reject VCC nonwords faster than CVC nonwords, suggesting that the marked VCC syllables are dispreferred relative to CVC syllables. In a second experiment, I show that people are also sensitive to the distribution of these frames in the experiment. Findings indicate that syllable structure is represented at the phonological level, that individuals have preferences for certain syllables, and that these preferences can not be accounted for by the statistical properties of the stimuli.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/166449
Subject Headings
Grammar, Comparative and general, Phonology, Phonetics, Computational linguistics, Universals (Linguistics), Learning, Psychology of
Format
Document (PDF)
Now you hear it, now you don't: The effect of markedness on the perception of unattested clusters
Title
Now you hear it, now you don't: The effect of markedness on the perception of unattested clusters.
Creator
Lennertz, Tracy J., Florida Atlantic University, Berent, Iris, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
Linguistic theory predicts that speakers are equipped with universal sonority principles that restrict the structure of the syllable: onset clusters with sonority rises are preferred to onsets with plateaus, which are preferred to onsets with falling sonority (bn > bd > lb). We investigate the source of this preference in English, a language in which these sonority profiles are unattested. We gauged speakers' preferences for unattested onsets by examining their susceptibility to epenthetic...
Show moreLinguistic theory predicts that speakers are equipped with universal sonority principles that restrict the structure of the syllable: onset clusters with sonority rises are preferred to onsets with plateaus, which are preferred to onsets with falling sonority (bn > bd > lb). We investigate the source of this preference in English, a language in which these sonority profiles are unattested. We gauged speakers' preferences for unattested onsets by examining their susceptibility to epenthetic repair. If English speakers are sensitive to onset structure, then onsets that are universally dispreferred should be more likely to elicit repair (e.g., lbif→lebif). Results from a syllable judgment task and an identity task support our predictions: onsets of rising sonority are perceived more accurately compared to onsets with sonority plateaus, which, in turn, are perceived more accurately compared to onsets with sonority falls. Our findings suggest that speakers are equipped with phonological preferences for sonority profiles that are unattested in their language.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13392
Subject Headings
Markedness (Linguistics), Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology, Tone (Phonetics), Lexical phonology, Optimality theory (Linguistics)
Format
Document (PDF)
The Phonological Constraints on the Assembly of Skeletal Structure in Reading: Grammatical or Statistical?
Title
The Phonological Constraints on the Assembly of Skeletal Structure in Reading: Grammatical or Statistical?.
Creator
Marom, Michal, Florida Atlantic University, Berent, Iris, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
Much evidence suggests that readers assemble phonology in reading, yet little is known about the structure of these phonological representations. Linguistic research suggests that speakers represent prosodic structure via skeletal frames and that unmarked frames are preferred to marked frames. Seven experiments explore the role of the skeleton in reading focusing on these three questions: (a) do readers assemble the skeleton of printed words? (b) do readers prefer certain frames to others? (c...
Show moreMuch evidence suggests that readers assemble phonology in reading, yet little is known about the structure of these phonological representations. Linguistic research suggests that speakers represent prosodic structure via skeletal frames and that unmarked frames are preferred to marked frames. Seven experiments explore the role of the skeleton in reading focusing on these three questions: (a) do readers assemble the skeleton of printed words? (b) do readers prefer certain frames to others? (c) are skeletal preferences due to grammatical markedness and/or to the statistical properties of the language? Experiments I and 2 showed that in a forcedchoice task, readers favor non-words with unmarked eve and cvcc frames (e.g. , GOM/ TUSP) to non-words with marked VCC frame (e.g., ELM), regardless of segment similarity. Li!Show less
Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000869
Subject Headings
English language--Phonology--Research, Reading--Remedial teaching, Reading, Psychology of, Reading--Phonetic method, Autosegmental theory (Linguistics)
Format
Document (PDF)