Language-induced voice quality variability in bilinguals

Bruyninckx, Marielle; Harmegnies, Bernard; Llisterri, Joaquim; Poch-Oiivé, Dolors

doi:10.1016/s0095-4470(19)30265-7

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“…Identifying cross-linguistic differences in phonetic setting is a project undertaken by Mennen, Scobbie, de Leeuw, Schaeffler, and Schaeffler (2010) to aid in second language acquisition, under the rationale that these phonetic settings are particularly challenging to learn. This argument is supported by a study of 12 Castillian Spanish-Catalan bilinguals showing that speakers exhibited less vocal variability in their nondominant language (Bruyninckx, Harmegnies, Llisterri, & Poch-Olive, 1994), suggesting that cultural influences are only part of the story, and that language proficiency likely plays a role as well. Nevertheless, examinations of intraspeaker differences among bilinguals provide striking evidence for language-specific voice quality.…”

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Voice Quality and Identity

Podesva¹,

Callier²

2015

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

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Variation in voice quality has long been recognized to have functions beyond the grammatically distinctive or phonetically useful roles it plays in many languages, indexing information about the speaker, participating in the construction of stance in interaction, or serving to identify the speaker as a unique individual. Though the links between voice quality and identity have been studied in phonetics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, forensic linguistics, and speech technology, considerable work remains to be done to problematize the ways in which the voice is taken as covering privileged, immediate meanings about the speaker's body and to break apart the ideologies that construct it as an inalienable, unitary, and invariant facet of a speaker's identity. We point out promising directions in recent research on the voice and bring up ideas for where this important area of research should be taken.

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Section: Voice Quality As An Index Of Group Membershipmentioning

confidence: 88%

Voice Quality and Identity

Podesva¹,

Callier²

2015

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

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“…Depende de los objetivos del corpus, en ocasiones el investigador puede estar interesado en ciertos aspectos fonéticos muy concretos, por lo que puede hacer uso simplemente de textos fonéticamente equilibrados que los informantes han de leer (Bruyninckx et al, 1994;Ortega et al, 2000) 4 .…”

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Recomendaciones para la confección de un corpus oral válido para el análisis fonético

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A menudo se cometen errores en la recogida y tratamiento de datos para la confección de un corpus oral, que en ocasiones pueden llegar hasta imposibilitar un posible análisis fonético posterior. Para evitar esto se proponen en estas páginas una serie de consejos previos relativos a los participantes, a las grabaciones y a las herramientas de construcción del corpus; todo ello con la idea de aconsejar al investigador a la hora de construir un corpus oral. Estos consejos le ayudarán a construir un corpus que permita el análisis fonético adecuado con los estándares de calidad científica actuales.

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“…If a bilingual speaker speaks two languages of different voice qualities, would she/he be able to keep them apart or will transfer of voice quality occur? Indeed, several studies have shown that voice quality varies across languages and bilingual speakers are able to distinguish them (for French/Dutch: Harmegnies & Landercy 1985; for Catalan/ Spanish: Bruyninckx et al 1994;Harmegnies et al 1989; for Japanese/English: 1. Since creaky voice is also a characteristic of some female pop stars, it is perceived negatively as a fashion trend sounding "untrustworthy" (Anderson et al 2014;Quenqua 2012).…”

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11

Perpiñán¹,

Heap²,

Moreno-Villamar³

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory

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The second article in this section "Towards a Unified Treatment of Spanish Copulas", by Arche, Fábregas, and Marín adds to the ongoing debate of the distribution of the Spanish copulas ser and estar by accounting for their alternation in adjectival and passive clauses in a unified way. They propose that the properties of passive clauses are due to the properties of the copulas and not the participles, and further argue that only estar has an additional component of central coincidence with a stative nature. Charnavel analyzes French scalar particles même, quand même, ne serait-ce que, and seulement and compares them to English particles even and only. Her article, "How French Sheds New Light on Scalar Particles" proposes a new theory based on specific characteristics such as scalarity, additivity, and exclusivity and provides new empirical evidence about these French particles, which, despite widespread assumptions, behave differently from their English counterparts. The last article of the Syntax-Semantics section is by Donazzan and Tovena and investigates the semantics of semelfactive predicates in Italian. In "Pluralities of Events: Semelfactives and a Case of 'Single Event' Nominalisation", the authors analyze the notion of plurality and unity of events by looking at the two possible readings that ata-nominalisations, i.e.: nuotata, ombrellata, receive in instrument semelfactive verbs. They conclude that semelfactives, in their processive readings, have to considered activity predicates. The second section of the volume includes articles on Morphosyntax, beginning with "Laísmo and 'le-for-les': To Agree or not to Agree?", by Adolfo Ausín and Francisco J. Fernández-Rubiera, a novel exploration of an old problem in nonstandard Spanish pronominal paradigms. They propose a unified account for three apparently unrelated phenomena: the presence of the accusative clitic, the presence/ absence of number agreement in the dative clitic ('le-for-les'), and the presence/absence of gender agreement in the dative clitic in laísta dialects ('le-for-la'). They propose that agreement in these two nonstandard dative clitic constructions is related

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Language-induced voice quality variability in bilinguals

Cited by 48 publications

References 8 publications

Voice Quality and Identity

Voice Quality and Identity

Recomendaciones para la confección de un corpus oral válido para el análisis fonético

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11

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