33.3919, Books: Production, perception, and comprehension of subphonemic detail: Schmitz

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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 03:42:32
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Production, perception, and comprehension of subphonemic detail: Schmitz

 


Title: Production, perception, and comprehension of subphonemic detail 
Subtitle: Word-Final /s/ in English 
Series Title: Studies in Laboratory Phonology  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/365 


Author: Dominic Schmitz

Electronic: ISBN:  9783985540594 Pages: 193 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.
The complexities of speech production, perception, and comprehension are
enormous. Theoretical approaches of these complexities most recently face the
challenge of accounting for findings on subphonemic differences. The aim of
the present dissertation is to establish a robust foundation of findings on
such subphonemic differences.

One rather popular case for differences in subphonemic detail is word-final
/s/ and /z/ in English (henceforth S) as it constitutes a number of
morphological functions. Using word-final S, three general issues are
investigated. First, are there subphonemic durational differences between
different types of word-final S? If there are such differences, how can they
be accounted for? Second, can such subphonemic durational differences be
perceived? Third, do such subphonemic durational differences influence the
comprehension of S?

These questions are investigated by five highly controlled studies: a
production task, an implementation of Linear Discriminative Learning, a
same-different task, and two number-decision tasks. Using not only real words
but also pseudowords as target items, potentially confounding effects of
lexical storage are controlled for.

Concerning the first issue, the results show that there are indeed durational
differences between different types of word-final S. Non-morphemic S is
longest in duration, clitic S is shortest in duration, and plural S duration
is in-between non-morphemic S and clitic S durations. It appears that the
durational differences are connected to a word’s semantic activation diversity
and its phonological certainty. Regarding the second issue, subphonemic
durational differences in word-final S can be perceived, with higher levels of
perceptibility for differences of 35 ms and higher. In regard to the third
issue, subphonemic durational differences are found not to influence the speed
of comprehension, but show a significant effect on the process of
comprehension. The overall results give raise to a revision of various extant
models of speech production, perception, and comprehension.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology


Written In: English  (eng)

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