Relating Tabooness to Humor and Arousal Ratings in American English: What the F*** Is so Funny?
This study gathered tabooness, humor, and arousal ratings to provide a resource for researchers to better understand the sources and characteristics of the strong emotions generated by taboo words. A total of 411 participants aged 18-83 were recruited via online platforms, and all participants rated the same 264 words on tabooness, humor, and arousal. Analyses indicated that tabooness and humor ratings were positively related to each other, and both were predicted by arousal ratings. The set of ratings included here provides a tool for researchers using taboo stimuli, and our findings highlight methodological consideration...
Source: Language and Speech - February 15, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Meredith A Shafto Lise Abrams Lori E James Pengbo Hu Genevieve Gray Source Type: research
Relating Tabooness to Humor and Arousal Ratings in American English: What the F*** Is so Funny?
This study gathered tabooness, humor, and arousal ratings to provide a resource for researchers to better understand the sources and characteristics of the strong emotions generated by taboo words. A total of 411 participants aged 18-83 were recruited via online platforms, and all participants rated the same 264 words on tabooness, humor, and arousal. Analyses indicated that tabooness and humor ratings were positively related to each other, and both were predicted by arousal ratings. The set of ratings included here provides a tool for researchers using taboo stimuli, and our findings highlight methodological consideration...
Source: Language and Speech - February 15, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Meredith A Shafto Lise Abrams Lori E James Pengbo Hu Genevieve Gray Source Type: research
Learnability Advantage of Segmental Repetitions in Word Learning
In this study, we focus on one such bias-an advantage for string-internal repetitions-and examine its effects on wordform learning. Importantly, we consider whether any type of segmental repetition is equally beneficial for word recall, or whether learning is favored more or only by repeated consonants, in line with previous research indicating that consonants play a larger role than vowels in lexical processing. In Experiment 1, adult English speakers learned artificial consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel words containing either a repeated consonant (e.g., /sesu/, "c-rep"), a repeated vowel (e.g., /sepe/, "v-rep"), or dissimi...
Source: Language and Speech - February 5, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Johanna Basnak Mitsuhiko Ota Source Type: research
Lexical Stress Identification in Cochlear Implant-Simulated Speech by Non-Native Listeners
This study investigates whether a presumed difference in the perceptibility of cues to lexical stress in spectro-temporally degraded simulated cochlear implant (CI) speech affects how listeners weight these cues during a lexical stress identification task, specifically in their non-native language. Previous research suggests that in English, listeners predominantly rely on a reduction in vowel quality as a cue to lexical stress. In Dutch, changes in the fundamental frequency (F0) contour seem to have a greater functional weight than the vowel quality contrast. Generally, non-native listeners use the cue-weighting strategie...
Source: Language and Speech - January 29, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Marita K Everhardt Anastasios Sarampalis Matt Coler Deniz Ba șkent Wander Lowie Source Type: research
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions
Lang Speech. 2023 Dec 29:238309231213580. doi: 10.1177/00238309231213580. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPersian polar questions are characterized by a rise-fall followed by a low F0 plateau and a final rise. A production experiment was designed which systematically manipulated question length and the position of stress in the nuclear accented word in the question. Results revealed that distances between tones can strongly affect their scaling and alignment in predictable manner. With respect to scaling, our data show that the postnuclear low F0 target is realized considerably higher in short questions in which tonal crowdi...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Vahid Sadeghi Source Type: research
Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence
Lang Speech. 2023 Dec 29:238309231215355. doi: 10.1177/00238309231215355. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSegment-to-segment timing overlap between Vowel-Nasal gestures in /VN/ sequences varies cross-linguistically. However, how bilinguals may adjust those timing gestures is still unanswered. Regarding timing strategies in a second language (L2), research finds that native (L1) strategies can be partially transferred to the L2, and that higher L2 proficiency promotes a more successful phonetic performance. My goal is to answer whether bilingual speakers can adjust their L1 coarticulatory settings in their L2 and to observe w...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Ander Beristain Source Type: research
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective
This study investigates the attractiveness of average speech rhythms in Dutch and Mandarin Chinese, two typologically different languages. This was tested in a series of perception experiments in either language in which native listeners chose the most attractive one from a pair of acoustically manipulated rhythms. For each language, two experiments were carried out to control for the potential influence of the acoustic manipulation on the average effect. The results confirm the average effect in both languages, and they do not exclude individual variation in the listeners' perception of attractiveness. The outcomes provid...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Constantijn Kaland Marc Swerts Source Type: research
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions
Lang Speech. 2023 Dec 29:238309231213580. doi: 10.1177/00238309231213580. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPersian polar questions are characterized by a rise-fall followed by a low F0 plateau and a final rise. A production experiment was designed which systematically manipulated question length and the position of stress in the nuclear accented word in the question. Results revealed that distances between tones can strongly affect their scaling and alignment in predictable manner. With respect to scaling, our data show that the postnuclear low F0 target is realized considerably higher in short questions in which tonal crowdi...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Vahid Sadeghi Source Type: research
Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence
Lang Speech. 2023 Dec 29:238309231215355. doi: 10.1177/00238309231215355. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSegment-to-segment timing overlap between Vowel-Nasal gestures in /VN/ sequences varies cross-linguistically. However, how bilinguals may adjust those timing gestures is still unanswered. Regarding timing strategies in a second language (L2), research finds that native (L1) strategies can be partially transferred to the L2, and that higher L2 proficiency promotes a more successful phonetic performance. My goal is to answer whether bilingual speakers can adjust their L1 coarticulatory settings in their L2 and to observe w...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Ander Beristain Source Type: research
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective
This study investigates the attractiveness of average speech rhythms in Dutch and Mandarin Chinese, two typologically different languages. This was tested in a series of perception experiments in either language in which native listeners chose the most attractive one from a pair of acoustically manipulated rhythms. For each language, two experiments were carried out to control for the potential influence of the acoustic manipulation on the average effect. The results confirm the average effect in both languages, and they do not exclude individual variation in the listeners' perception of attractiveness. The outcomes provid...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Constantijn Kaland Marc Swerts Source Type: research
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions
Lang Speech. 2023 Dec 29:238309231213580. doi: 10.1177/00238309231213580. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPersian polar questions are characterized by a rise-fall followed by a low F0 plateau and a final rise. A production experiment was designed which systematically manipulated question length and the position of stress in the nuclear accented word in the question. Results revealed that distances between tones can strongly affect their scaling and alignment in predictable manner. With respect to scaling, our data show that the postnuclear low F0 target is realized considerably higher in short questions in which tonal crowdi...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Vahid Sadeghi Source Type: research
Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence
Lang Speech. 2023 Dec 29:238309231215355. doi: 10.1177/00238309231215355. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSegment-to-segment timing overlap between Vowel-Nasal gestures in /VN/ sequences varies cross-linguistically. However, how bilinguals may adjust those timing gestures is still unanswered. Regarding timing strategies in a second language (L2), research finds that native (L1) strategies can be partially transferred to the L2, and that higher L2 proficiency promotes a more successful phonetic performance. My goal is to answer whether bilingual speakers can adjust their L1 coarticulatory settings in their L2 and to observe w...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Ander Beristain Source Type: research
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective
This study investigates the attractiveness of average speech rhythms in Dutch and Mandarin Chinese, two typologically different languages. This was tested in a series of perception experiments in either language in which native listeners chose the most attractive one from a pair of acoustically manipulated rhythms. For each language, two experiments were carried out to control for the potential influence of the acoustic manipulation on the average effect. The results confirm the average effect in both languages, and they do not exclude individual variation in the listeners' perception of attractiveness. The outcomes provid...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Constantijn Kaland Marc Swerts Source Type: research
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions
Lang Speech. 2023 Dec 29:238309231213580. doi: 10.1177/00238309231213580. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPersian polar questions are characterized by a rise-fall followed by a low F0 plateau and a final rise. A production experiment was designed which systematically manipulated question length and the position of stress in the nuclear accented word in the question. Results revealed that distances between tones can strongly affect their scaling and alignment in predictable manner. With respect to scaling, our data show that the postnuclear low F0 target is realized considerably higher in short questions in which tonal crowdi...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Vahid Sadeghi Source Type: research
Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence
Lang Speech. 2023 Dec 29:238309231215355. doi: 10.1177/00238309231215355. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSegment-to-segment timing overlap between Vowel-Nasal gestures in /VN/ sequences varies cross-linguistically. However, how bilinguals may adjust those timing gestures is still unanswered. Regarding timing strategies in a second language (L2), research finds that native (L1) strategies can be partially transferred to the L2, and that higher L2 proficiency promotes a more successful phonetic performance. My goal is to answer whether bilingual speakers can adjust their L1 coarticulatory settings in their L2 and to observe w...
Source: Language and Speech - December 29, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Ander Beristain Source Type: research
