Wordform-specific frequency effects cause acoustic variation in zero-inflected homophones
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F21%3A10413504" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/21:10413504 - isvavai.cz</a>
Výsledek na webu
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ls8TT_K_CU" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ls8TT_K_CU</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2020-0024" target="_blank" >10.1515/psicl-2020-0024</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Wordform-specific frequency effects cause acoustic variation in zero-inflected homophones
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
The frequency with which a word appears in the lexicon has implications for its pronunciation. Numerous studies have shown that high-frequency lemmata are characterized by more phonetic reduction than lower-frequency lemmata. These findings have proven to be particularly useful in the study of homophones where frequency-related reduction processes can give insights into lexical access theories. The majority of research on homophones and frequency effects has focused on heterographic and semantically unrelated homophones (e.g., English time - thyme) or investigated zero-derived homophones (e.g., English the cut, noun - to cut, verb). Here, zero inflection in German pluralization (e.g., ein Würfel 'one die'- zwei Würfel 'two dice') was investigated to determine if and how frequency effects impact on the acoustic realization of the homophonous singular-plural word pairs. The findings indicate that the number-specified wordforms show acoustic variation in pronunciation related to wordform frequency and the relative frequency of the singular to plural inflected forms. Results differ for durations of wordforms, stem vowels, and final phonemes. Our findings have implications for lexical access theories and can inform about 'frequency inheritance' across the singular and plural homophones of the zero-inflected plurals.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Wordform-specific frequency effects cause acoustic variation in zero-inflected homophones
Popis výsledku anglicky
The frequency with which a word appears in the lexicon has implications for its pronunciation. Numerous studies have shown that high-frequency lemmata are characterized by more phonetic reduction than lower-frequency lemmata. These findings have proven to be particularly useful in the study of homophones where frequency-related reduction processes can give insights into lexical access theories. The majority of research on homophones and frequency effects has focused on heterographic and semantically unrelated homophones (e.g., English time - thyme) or investigated zero-derived homophones (e.g., English the cut, noun - to cut, verb). Here, zero inflection in German pluralization (e.g., ein Würfel 'one die'- zwei Würfel 'two dice') was investigated to determine if and how frequency effects impact on the acoustic realization of the homophonous singular-plural word pairs. The findings indicate that the number-specified wordforms show acoustic variation in pronunciation related to wordform frequency and the relative frequency of the singular to plural inflected forms. Results differ for durations of wordforms, stem vowels, and final phonemes. Our findings have implications for lexical access theories and can inform about 'frequency inheritance' across the singular and plural homophones of the zero-inflected plurals.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
—
OECD FORD obor
60203 - Linguistics
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
—
Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2021
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
ISSN
0137-2459
e-ISSN
—
Svazek periodika
56
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
4
Stát vydavatele periodika
PL - Polská republika
Počet stran výsledku
29
Strana od-do
711-739
Kód UT WoS článku
000645003200007
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
2-s2.0-85102600705