A5037346731- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Gender Studies in Language
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Color perception and design
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
2016-2022
Columbia University
2022
Humans are remarkably efficient at parsing basic linguistic cues and show an equally impressive ability to produce parse socially indexed from the language(s) they encounter. In this review, we focus on ways in which questions of justice equality linked these two abilities. We discuss how social theorized become correlated with each other, describe listeners' perceptual abilities regarding cognition, address how, context abilities, language mediates individuals’ negotiations institutions...
Abstract: Both the concept of native speaker/signer and term itself have been widely critiqued across fields language research. However, this is still often used uncritically by linguists, with some disciplines centering behavior knowledge speakers as main object inquiry. We argue that should not be treated an objective analytic category. Instead, it a language-ideological assemblage, cluster related ideologies assume essentialized relationships between linguistic practices social...
Both the concept of NATIVE SPEAKER/SIGNER and term itself have been widely critiqued across fields language research. However, this is still often used uncritically by linguists, with some disciplines centering behavior knowledge SPEAKERS as main object inquiry. We argue that should not be treated an objective analytic category. Instead, it a ideological assemblage, cluster related ideologies which assume essentialized relationships between linguistic practices social identities. By...
Afrikaans plosives are traditionally described as contrasting in voicing ([b d] vs. [p t]). Coetzee et al. (2014, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 135, 2421), however, showed that the contrast is collapsing word-initially, with voiced merging voiceless plosives. They also found loss does not result of lexical contrast, which preserved on following vowel (high f0 after historically and low plosives). That study investigated word-initial plosives, leaving unanswered whether word-medial devoicing. The...
In previous decades, Canadian French has undergone a sound change throughout Western Quebec where the apical trill [r] moved to production using tongue dorsum, often being produced by speakers as velar fricative [x, ɣ], uvular [ʀ], or [χ, ʁ] (Sankoff and Blondeau 2007, 2010). This is argued have been primarily driven younger female adopting dorsal production, but also reported across lifespan of older speakers. Discrepancies about whether variation in rhotic productions result allophony from...
Previous perceptual research demonstrates that providing listeners with a social prime, such as information about speaker's gender, can affect how categorize an ambiguous speech sound produced by speaker. We report the results of experiment testing whether, in turn, linguistic which word they are to hear, affects categorization gender. In eye-tracking study for these bidirectional effects, participants (i) saw visual prime (gender or lexical), (ii) heard auditory stimulus drawn from matrix...
The interdisciplinary spring school “Language, music, and cognition: Organizing events in time” was held from February 26 to March 2, 2018 at the Institute of Musicology University Cologne. Language, speech, music as time were explored different perspectives including evolutionary biology, social cognition, developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience language, communication, well computational biological approaches language music. There 10 lectures, 4 workshops, 1 student poster...
Previous research has demonstrated social information affects listeners' linguistic decision-making. Strand and Johnson (1996) showed that imputed gender shifts sibilant category boundaries. Further shown identity influences binary categorization of gender, suggesting social-linguistic bidirectionality (Bouavichith et al., 2019). This study extends this body literature by investigating how changes when acoustically masculinized speech is framed within differing contexts. Participants...