Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics

376 Pages·2014·5.192 MB·English

by  Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller, Ellen van Zanten

Above and Beyond the Segments

Above and Beyond the Segments
Experimental linguistics and phonetics
Edited by
Johanneke Caspers
Yiya Chen
Willemijn Heeren
Jos Pacilly
Niels O. Schiller
Ellen van Zanten
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Table of contents
Foreword xi
Tone and stress in North-West Indo-Aryan: A survey 1
Joan L. G. Baart
Whose voice is that? Challenges in forensic phonetics 14
Tina Cambier-Langeveld, Maya van Rossum, and Jos Vermeulen
Pitch accent placement in Dutch as a second language:
An exploratory investigation 28
Johanneke Caspers
The problems of adverbs in Zulu 42
Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Laura J. Downing
Meaningful grammar is binary, local, anti-symmetric,
recursive and incomplete 60
Crit Cremers and Maarten Hijzelendoorn
How prosody is both mandatory and optional 71
Anne Cutler and James M. McQueen
No stress typology 83
Rob Goedemans and Ellen van Zanten
The effect of pause insertion on the intelligibility
of Danish among Swedes 96
Charlotte Gooskens and Renée van Bezooijen
Intonation, bias and Greek NPIs: A perception experiment 109
Stella Gryllia
Information status and L2 prosody: A study of reference maintenance
in Chinese learners of Dutch 120
Yan Gu and Aoju Chen
Does boundary tone production in whispered speech depend on its bearer?
Exploring a case of tonal crowding in whisper 131
Willemijn F. L. Heeren
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The primacy of the weak in Carib prosody 144
Berend Hoff
The effects of age and level of education on the ability
of adult native speakers of Dutch to segment speech into words 152
Jan H. Hulstijn and Sible Andringa
Doing grammatical semantics as if it were phonetics 165
Robert S. Kirsner
Phonetic aspects of polar questions in Sienese:
An experimental approach 174
Sara Lusini, Roberta D’Alessandro, and Johan Rooryck
Etymological sub-lexicons constrain the graphematic solution space 189
Anneke Neijt
Do speakers try to distract attention from their speech errors?
The prosody of self-repairs 203
Sieb Nooteboom and Hugo Quené
Field notes from a phonetician on Tundra Yukaghir orthography 218
Cecilia Odé
Cross-regional differences in the perception of fricative devoicing 230
Anne-France Pinget, Hans Van de Velde, and René Kager
Evidence for three-level vowel length in Ageer Dinka 246
Bert Remijsen
Phonetic accounts of timed responses in syllable monitoring experiments 261
Toni Rietveld and Niels O. Schiller
The independent effects of prosodic structure and information status
on tonal coarticulation: Evidence from Wenzhou Chinese 275
Franziska Scholz and Yiya Chen
The acoustics of English vowels in the speech of Dutch learners
before and after pronunciation training 288
Dick Smakman and Thomas de France
The use of Chinese dialects: Increasing or decreasing?
Survey on the use of Chongqing dialect 302
Chaoju Tang
Durational effects of phrasal stress 311
Alice Turk
Table of contents ix
The laryngeal class in RcvP and voice phenomena in Dutch 323
Harry van der Hulst
Affricates in English as a natural class 350
Jeroen van de Weijer
Index 359