Oriana Kilbourn-CeronNorthwestern University | NU · Department of Linguistics
Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron
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How does the real-time planning of speech affect the pronunciation of what we end up saying? I'm pursing the idea that variable phonological patterns are influenced by speech production planning. In spontaneous speech, I found that speakers are less likely to use contextual variants (English flaps, French liaison) when the upcoming context is difficult to plan. I found a similar result in a production experiment, and found that speakers use more flaps when they have a longer time to plan.
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August 2011 - July 2017
August 2007 - May 2011
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This chapter investigates some implications of Spell-Out in a phase-based, realizational derivational system. It is argued that all operations on the PF branch within a phase, specifically Vocabulary Insertion and phonological rule application are predicted to have isomorphic domains of application. This has implications for the proposals on how to...
Conference paper available: http://www.icphs2015.info/pdfs/Papers/ICPHS0932.pdf
Recent work in the domain of scalar implicatures argues for the existence of a grammatical device of covert exhaustification
exh (Krifka 1995; Chierchia 2006; Fox 2007; Fox and Spector 2009; Chierchia et al. 2011; Sauerland 2012). This covert operator strengthens sentence meanings in a way similar to neo-Gricean quantity inferences, but is cruciall...
The present handbook is a state-of-the-art compilation of papers from leading scholars on the mental lexicon—the representation of language in the mind/brain at the level of individual words and meaningful sub-word units. In recent years, the study of words as mental objects has grown rapidly across several fields including linguistics, psychology,...
The common sense notion of lexicon as a dictionary implies a static, fixed repository of information about the properties of individual words. This chapter discusses evidence from speech production suggesting that the lexicon in production is best characterized as a process: lexical access. This process involves the dynamic interaction of informati...
In two speech production experiments, we investigated the link between phonetic variation and the scope of advance planning at the word form encoding stage. We examined cases where a word has, in addition to the pronunciation of the word in isolation, a context-specific pronunciation variant that appears only when the following word includes specif...
In two speech production experiments, we investigated the link between phonetic variation and the scope of advance planning at the word form encoding stage. We examined cases where a word has, in addition to the pronunciation of the word in isolation, a context-specific pronunciation variant that appears only when the following word includes specif...
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We examine how constraints on advance planning in speech production impact word form variation. A /t/ can be produced as a flap only when it's followed by a vowel (e.g., in “atom” and “great exam”). Planning can influence this process by restricting the availability of the following vowel during planning of the /t/. We tes...
Speakers learning a second language show systematic differences from native speakers in the retrieval, planning, and articulation of speech. A key challenge in examining the interrelationship between these differences at various stages of production is the need for manual annotation of fine-grained properties of speech. We introduce a new method fo...
Predictability has been shown to be associated with many dimensions of variation in speech, including durational variation and variable omission of segments. However, the mechanism or mechanisms that underlie these effects are still unclear. This paper presents data on a new aspect of predictability in speech, namely how it affects allophonic varia...
Devoicing of high vowels (HVD) in Tokyo Japanese applies in two environments—between voiceless consonants, and between a voiceless consonant and a “pause”—and applies variably as a function of a number of factors. The role and definition of “pause” in this process, in terms of a physical pause or prosodic position (word or phrase boundary), remains...
Connected speech processes have played a major role in shaping theories about phonological organization, and how phonology interacts with other components of the grammar (Selkirk, 1974; Kiparsky, 1982; Kaisse, 1985; Nespor and Vogel, 1986, among others). External sandhi is subject to locality conditions, and it is more variable compared to processe...
The place of variation in phonology is the subject of ongoing investigation and debate. Variable allophonic processes are problematic for strictly categorical models of phonology in two ways: their outcome is not deterministic, which phonological computation is traditionally assumed to be, and the probabilities associated with these processes are o...
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/32/abstract3163.html
The modifier almost indicates, intuitively, that the modified constituent is at least close to being true, but is not in fact true. For example, the sentence Bill almost swam the English Channel tells us (i) that Bill came close to swimming the Channel and (ii) that Bill did not swim the Channe...