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Mark Aaron Gibson 

Research lines
Fonética experimental, Fonología del laboratorio, Modelación computacional
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Most recent scientific publications (since 2010)

Authors: Aguado, Gerardo; Ripoll, Juan Cruz; Milagros Tapia; et al.
Title: Marcadores del trastorno específico del lenguaje en español: comparación entre la repetición de oraciones y la repetición de pseudopalabras
Journal: REVISTA DE LOGOPEDIA, FONIATRIA Y AUDIOLOGIA
ISSN 0214-4603  Vol. 38  Nº 3  2018  pp. 105-112
Abstract
Objetivo El objetivo de este trabajo es comparar 2 marcadores del trastorno específico del lenguaje en niños españoles de 5 a 7 años. Estos marcadores son la repetición de oraciones y la repetición de pseudopalabras, que son los utilizados para esta función en la investigación sobre este trastorno. Los 2 remiten a déficits de memoria como origen de este trastorno. Se revisan las formas en que estas tareas han sido utilizadas en el marcaje del trastorno específico del lenguaje. Participantes Se han aplicado estas tareas a 3 grupos de niños de 5 a 7 años; uno constituido por niños con trastorno específico del lenguaje, otro por niños con trastorno de habla y articulación y otro con niños con desarrollo típico. Resultados Los análisis discriminantes y la curva ROC ponen de manifiesto que es la repetición de oraciones la que tiene una mayor sensibilidad y especificidad para distinguir a los niños con trastorno específico del lenguaje de los niños con desarrollo típico, pero muestra una sensibilidad discreta en la diferenciación de los niños con desarrollo típico de los que tienen trastorno de habla y articulación. Ninguna de las tareas logra diferenciar con una precisión aceptable a los niños con trastorno específico del lenguaje de los que tienen trastorno de habla y articulación. Discusión y conclusiones Se explican las razones de la distinta potencia marcadora de ambas tareas para identificar a los niños con trastorno específico del lenguaje, trastorno de habla y articulac
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron; Bunta, F.; Goodin-Mayeda, E.; et al.
Title: The acquisition of syllable-level timing contrasts by English- and Spanish-speaking bilingual children with normal hearing and English- and Spanish-speaking bilingual children with cochlear implants
Journal: JOURNAL OF PHONETICS
ISSN 0095-4470  Vol. 71  2018  pp. 98 - 112
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron;
Title: A stochastic approach to rhotic variation in Spanish codas
Journal: LOQUENS
ISSN 2386-2637  Vol. 2  Nº 1  2015  pp. 1 - 16
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron; de Lorenzo, Ignacio;
Title: GLASÚN 1.0: A new data management and prompting system for research in acoustic phonetics
Journal: ESTUDIOS DE FONETICA EXPERIMENTAL
ISSN 1575-5533  Vol. 23  2014  pp. 247 - 264
Abstract
This methodological study presents the results of an initiative to create a new data management and prompting system which can be interfaced with acoustic data for research in acoustic phonetics. The objectives of this initiative were to provide an economical way to record, organize and manipulate acoustic data and to construct a system which allows the use of external recording equipment for production experiments. For the project, a program was designed with a built-in visual prompting system which simultaneously synchronizes the text in accordance with defined temporal regions in the long file for easy extraction for use in perception experiments. Results of external assessment were considerably positive due to the user-friendly platform which does not require scripting, meaning the organization and manipulation of data files is less time-consuming and more efficient
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron;
Title: A gestural-based analysis of synchronic [e] prosthesis in word-initial [sC] loanwords in Spanish
Journal: IANUA. REVISTA PHILOLOGICA ROMANICA
ISSN 1616-413X  Vol. 12  2012  pp. 35 - 56
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron;
Title: A typology of stress in Spanish non-verbs
Journal: IANUA. REVISTA PHILOLOGICA ROMANICA
ISSN 1616-413X  Vol. 11  2011  pp. 1 - 30
Abstract
This article discusses the topic of stress in Spanish and its relationship to a higher metrical category called the foot. A general typology couched in the theoretic architecture of Optimality Theory is provided. I argue and illustrate that all stress patterns in Spanish non-verbs can be justified by a ranking schema of constraints which first govern the shape of metrical feet, and later determine the alignment of these feet to the syllable
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron; Gil, J.;
Title: Romance Sounds: new insights for old issues
Book title:  Romance Phonetics and Phonology
2019  pp. 1 - 18
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron; Blecua, B.; Cicres, J.;
Title: Are American English speakers better at distinguishing fake English accents in Spanish than native Spanish speakers?
Book title:  P & P 13: Proceedings of the Conference on Phonetics & Phonology in German-speaking countries
2018  pp. 69 - 72
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron; Sotiropoulou, S.; Tobin, S.; et al.
Title: On some temporal properties of Spanish consonant-liquid and consonant-rhotic clusters
Book title:  P & P 13: Proceedings of the Conference on Phonetics & Phonology in German-speaking countries
2018  pp. 73 - 76
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron; Fernández Planas, A. M.; Gafos, A.; et al.
Title: Consonant duration and VOT as a function of syllable complexity and voicing in a sub-set of Spanish clusters
Book title:  INTERSPEECH 2015
2015  pp. 1690 - 1694
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron;
Title: Integrating higher-order thinking skills into the L2 classroom
Book title:  Teaching Approaches to CLIL: propuestas docentes en AICLE
2012  pp. 127 - 137
Authors: Gibson, Mark Aaron, (Editor); Gil, J., (Editor)
Title: Romance Phonetics and Phonology
2019 
Abstract
This volume explores several recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the segment, syllable, word, and phrase levels of analysis. An international team of experts and junior researchers present research that ranges from the low-level mechanical processes involved in speech production and perception to high-level representation and computation, based on data from across the Romance language family, including from varieties that are less widely studied. The book is divided into five parts. In the first, chapters present acoustic studies, examining topics such as Italian anaphonesis and voiceless fricative sibilants in Galician, while chapters in part two turn to articulatory studies of features including three-consonant onsets in Romanian and rhotic variation in Tuscan Italian. The focus of the third part is perception, and includes studies of perceived phrasing in French and perceptual cues for individual voice quality, while part four examines phonological issues such as Galician mid-vowel reduction and sibilant voicing in Spanish. Chapters in the final part of the volume look at the effects of production and perception on issues in language acquisition. The book draws on a range of experimental and methodological approaches and will be of interest not only to scholars of Romance linguistics but also to all those working in phonetics and phonology from graduate level upwards

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