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Pierrehumbert, Janet B.

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2006.06.003

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“…Although production models lacking an exemplar component can explain individual differences in production by invoking individual differences in phonetic implementation of linguistic units, we consider that our findings are most naturally accounted for in a model with an exemplar component, specifically a hybrid exemplar-abstract model such as those proposed by Pierrehumbert (2002Pierrehumbert ( , 2006 or Walsh, Möbius, Wade and Schütze (2010). For example, Pierrehumbert (2002) presents a model that involves storage of exemplar chunks of speech, combined with prosodic parsing/tagging of these chunks, and mapping of them to labelled phonemic and lexical categories.…”

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Production and perception of speaker-specific phonetic detail at word boundaries

Smith

Hawkins

2012

Journal of Phonetics

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Experiments show that learning about familiar voices affects speech processing in many tasks. However, most studies focus on isolated phonemes or words and do not explore which phonetic properties are learned about or retained in memory. This work investigated inter-speaker phonetic variation involving word boundaries, and its perceptual consequences. A production experiment found significant variation in the extent to which speakers used a number of acoustic properties to distinguish junctural minimal pairs e.g. So he diced them-So he'd iced them. A perception experiment then tested intelligibility in noise of the junctural minimal pairs before and after familiarisation with a particular voice. Subjects who heard the same voice during testing as during the familiarisation period showed significantly more improvement in identification of words and syllable constituents around word boundaries than those who heard different voices. These data support the view that perceptual learning about the particular pronunciations associated with individual speakers helps listeners to identify syllabic structure and the location of word boundaries.

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Production and perception of speaker-specific phonetic detail at word boundaries

Smith

Hawkins

2012

Journal of Phonetics

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“…Instead, the striking advancement of the hula∼fool-ing contrast seems more consistent with a vowel-specific phonological rule. We believe that the co-existence of two types of contrasts we observe, phonetically elusive bully∼pull-ing contrast and phonetically robust hula∼fool-ing contrast, is best modelled in a hybrid exemplar approach, as developed by Pierrehumbert (2002Pierrehumbert ( , 2006Pierrehumbert ( , 2012Pierrehumbert ( , 2016. 5 On the one hand, this model contains phonetically-rich lexical representations influenced by relationships between related words, such as members of lexical neighbourhoods, or paradigmatically related words.…”

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“…In fact, such contrasts may potentially be present from the very onset of change. Further adjustments to the exemplar model of lexical storage are hybrid approaches which also have capacity to model phonological category behaviour, in addition to word-specific phonetics (Pierrehumbert, 2002(Pierrehumbert, , 2006(Pierrehumbert, , 2012(Pierrehumbert, , 2016.…”

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Whence the fuzziness? Morphological effects in interacting sound changes in Southern British English

Strycharczuk

Scobbie

2017

Laboratory Phonology

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The fronting of the high-back /uː/ and /ʊ/, as currently seen in Southern British English (SBE), is a rare opportunity to study two similar sound changes at different stages of their phonetic development: /uː/-fronting is a more advanced change than /ʊ/-fronting. Since the fronting in both vowels is restricted from applying before a following final /l/ (e.g., in words like fool or pull), we can exploit the difference in the phonetic advancement of /uː/ and /ʊ/-fronting to illuminate the nature of 'fuzzy contrasts' affecting vowel+/l/ sequences in morphologically complex words. As recent results show that /uː/-fronting is partially limited in fool-ing (but not in monomorphemes like hula), we ask whether similar morphological constraints affect /ʊ/ followed by /l/ (e.g., bully vs. pull-ing). Simultaneously, we consider the question of what phonological generalization best captures the interaction between vowel fronting, /l/-darkening, and morphological structure. We present ultrasound data from 20 speakers of SBE representing two age groups. The data show that morphologically conditioned contrasts are consistent for /uː/+/l/, but variable and limited in size for /ʊ/+/l/. We relate these findings to the debate on morphology-phonetics interactions and the emergence of phonological abstraction.

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“…In recent years, the role of lexical frequency in shaping phonological patterns has been extensively discussed in a range of linguistic phenomena, specifically in the studies of language variation and change. The effect of lexical frequency on linguistic processes, either direct or indirect, has been confirmed in a growing body of studies (Bybee, 2001(Bybee, , 2002(Bybee, , 2010Erker & Guy, 2012;Frisch, 2011;Johnson, 2007; Phillips, 2006;Pierrehumbert 2002Pierrehumbert , 2006.1 For example, in usage-based and exemplar theoretic models of phonology, where the lexicon is assumed to be a highly interconnected network of lexical exemplars (words or phrases) with rich information including frequency distribution (Bybee, 2001(Bybee, , 2002Johnson, 2007;Pierrehumbert, 2002Pierrehumbert, , 2006, highly frequent words have stronger mental representations and are more accessible during production; while infrequent words have weaker mental representations, and hence are more difficult to access. This difference in the strength of the mental representation is believed to drive variation and change, at least to some degree.…”

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The Role of Exemplars and Lexical Frequency in Rendaku

Sano

2015

Open Linguistics

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This paper examines the relationship between lexical frequency and phonological processes, focusing on rendaku in Japanese. Recently, the effect of lexical frequency on linguistic processes, either direct or indirect, has been confirmed in a growing body of studies. However, little attention has been paid to the potential effect of lexical frequency on rendaku. With this background, I examined the effect of lexical frequency on the applicability of rendaku, and developed an analogy-based model by incorporating lexical frequency. The results demonstrate (i) that lexical frequency affects the applicability of rendaku, (ii) less frequent compounds follow the existing patterns that the exemplar offers, and (iii) that rendaku is psychologically real; in other words, rendaku is productively applied to innovative forms, and such an application can be accounted for by the current model. Keywords: rendaku, lexical frequency, Exemplar Theory, corpus, phonological process, voicing, analogy, similarity, psychological reality, productivity IntroductionThis paper examines the relationship between lexical frequency and phonological processes, focusing on rendaku (also known as sequential voicing) in Japanese. In recent years, the role of lexical frequency in shaping phonological patterns has been extensively discussed in a range of linguistic phenomena, specifically in the studies of language variation and change. The effect of lexical frequency on linguistic processes, either direct or indirect, has been confirmed in a growing body of studies (Bybee, 2001(Bybee, , 2002(Bybee, , 2010Erker & Guy, 2012;Frisch, 2011;Johnson, 2007; Phillips, 2006;Pierrehumbert 2002Pierrehumbert , 2006.1 For example, in usage-based and exemplar theoretic models of phonology, where the lexicon is assumed to be a highly interconnected network of lexical exemplars (words or phrases) with rich information including frequency distribution (Bybee, 2001(Bybee, , 2002Johnson, 2007;Pierrehumbert, 2002Pierrehumbert, , 2006, highly frequent words have stronger mental representations and are more accessible during production; while infrequent words have weaker mental representations, and hence are more difficult to access. This difference in the strength of the mental representation is believed to drive variation and change, at least to some degree. In particular, highly frequent words are more likely to undergo phonological processes or to be the target of sound change; on the other hand, low-frequency words are more likely to be regularized, or to be the target of analogical change.Thus, given these previous findings, it seems reasonable to assume that lexical frequency plays some role also in the distribution of rendaku, a morphophonological pattern in Japanese. However, little # I would like to thank Shigeto Kawahara, Timothy Vance, Kevin Heffernan, and the members of the Keio phonetics-phonology study group for their invaluable comments. I am also grateful to two anonymous reviewers. This project is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant #26770147, #2...

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The next toolkit

Cited by 220 publications

References 27 publications

Production and perception of speaker-specific phonetic detail at word boundaries

Production and perception of speaker-specific phonetic detail at word boundaries

Whence the fuzziness? Morphological effects in interacting sound changes in Southern British English

The Role of Exemplars and Lexical Frequency in Rendaku

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