Journals
Journal:
LANGUAGE
ISSN:
0097-8507
Year:
2022
Vol.:
98
N°:
1
pp.
e1 - e25
We introduce a pedagogical initiative, which we call COLLABORATIVE ACTIVE LEARNING RESEARCH-BASED EDUCATION (CARE), for incorporating authentic research into the undergraduate classroom. CARE is founded on a broad base of pedagogical scholarship, which we summarize. We propose that there are numerous benefits to engaging students in research at the undergraduate level in the phonetics/phonology classroom, provided that the integration of research is done in a pedagogically sound manner. We describe an initiative carried out in the Spring 2019 semester, in which students in combined phonetics/phonology classes carried out acoustic and ultrasound studies of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation while simultaneously investigating vowel harmony from a phonological perspective. We propose that the CARE approach to developing a course-based undergraduate research experience is one way to integrate laboratory phonology into the undergraduate curriculum.
Journal:
JOURNAL OF PHONETICS
ISSN:
0095-4470
Year:
2022
Vol.:
95
pp.
101194
We examined the timing parameters in syllables of English containing word initial singleton sonorants (/l/ and //) and stop+sonorant clusters by bilingual English-and Spanish-speaking children with cochlear implants (CImp group) and their cohorts with normal hearing (NH group). The timing parameters included: voice onset time (henceforth, VOT), vowel duration following word initial singleton consonants and vowels following word initial stop+sonorant clusters as well as lateral and rhotic duration in word initial position and in stop+sonorant clusters. Our motivation for the current study was to address whether hearing loss affects the production of the timing parameters of syllables and whether language interference in bilingual productions is modulated by hearing loss. The results of the English production tasks show effects of onset type (singleton, C, vs complex onsets, CC) on VOT, whereby VOT for word initial singleton stops was shorter than VOT in stop+sonorant clusters. To the contrary vowel duration tended to extend temporally as more consonants are added to the onset. With regard to lateral and rhotic duration in word initial singleton and complex onsets, both groups (CImp and NH) showed the typical com-pression effect of /l/ in complex onsets characteristic of the timing pattern for sonorants in English complex sylla-bles, though no shortening of the rhotic was found for the NH group. Combined results suggest little effect of hearing loss on the production of the timing parameters of English syllables, and virtually no effects across groups that can be attributed to language interference.CO 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Journal:
INTERSPEECH
ISSN:
1990-9772
Year:
2021
pp.
3994 - 3998
Journal:
JOURNAL OF PHONETICS
ISSN:
0095-4470
This paper addresses the relation between syllable structure and inter-segmental temporal coordination. The
data examined are Electromagnetic Articulometry recordings from six speakers of Central Peninsular Spanish
(henceforth, Spanish), producing words beginning with the clusters /pl, bl, kl, gl, p¿, k¿, t¿/ as well as corresponding unclustered sonorant-initial words in three vowel contexts /a, e, o/. In our results, we find evidence for a global organization of the segments involved in these combinations. This is reflected in a number of ways:
shortening of the prevocalic sonorant in the cluster-initial case compared to the unclustered case, reorganization
of the relative timing of the internal CV subsequence (in a CCV) in the obstruent-lateral context, early vowel initiation, and a strong compensatory relation between the duration of the obstruent-to-lateral transition and the
duration of the lateral. In other words, we find that the global organization presiding over the segments partaking
in these tautosyllabic CCVs is pleiotropic, that is, simultaneously expressed over a set of different phonetic
parameters rather than via a privileged metric such as c-center stability or any other such given single measure
(employed in prior works).
Journal:
PHONETICA
ISSN:
0031-8388
Year:
2019
Vol.:
76
N°:
6
pp.
448 - 478
Journal:
REVISTA DE LOGOPEDIA, FONIATRIA Y AUDIOLOGIA
ISSN:
0214-4603
Year:
2018
Vol.:
38
N°:
3
pp.
105-112
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
Journal:
JOURNAL OF PHONETICS
ISSN:
0095-4470
Year:
2018
Vol.:
71
pp.
98 - 112
Journal:
LOQUENS
ISSN:
2386-2637
Year:
2015
Vol.:
2
N°:
1
pp.
1 - 16
Journal:
ESTUDIOS DE FONETICA EXPERIMENTAL
ISSN:
1575-5533
Year:
2014
Vol.:
23
pp.
247 - 264
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
Journal:
IANUA. REVISTA PHILOLOGICA ROMANICA
ISSN:
1616-413X
Year:
2012
Vol.:
12
pp.
35 - 56
Journal:
IANUA. REVISTA PHILOLOGICA ROMANICA
ISSN:
1616-413X
Year:
2011
Vol.:
11
pp.
1 - 30
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
Books
Place:
Oxford
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Year:
2019
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
National and regional funding
Title:
La temporalidad de los gestos articulatorios en sílabas en niños con implantes cocleares y niños con audición normal
Project reference:
PID2019-105929GA-I00
Funding organisation:
MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA, INNOVACIÓN Y UNIVERSIDADES
Programme/Call:
2019 AEI PROYECTOS I+D+i (incluye Generación del conocimiento y Retos investigación)
Starting date:
01/06/2020
Ending date:
31/12/2023
Amount awarded:
42.229,00€
Other Funds:
-
Others (PIUNA, foundations, contract research…)
Title:
Cognition, Learning and Intergestural Coordination: Tracking the evolutionary learning of vocal tract coordination en route from novice to expert behavior in two subject groups.
Project reference:
2016-16
Principal Investigator:
Mark Aaron Gibson
Funding organisation:
UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA
Programme/Call:
2016 PIUNA
Starting date:
01/09/2016
Ending date:
31/08/2019
Amount awarded:
55.395,00€