Repeat what after whom? Exploring variable selectivity in a cross-dialectal shadowing task

Repeat what after whom? Exploring variable selectivity in a cross-dialectal shadowing task

Twenty women from Christchurch, New Zealand and 16 from Columbus Ohio (dialect region U.S. Midland) participated in a bimodal lexical naming task where they repeated monosyllabic words after four speakers from four regional dialects: New Zealand, Australia, U.S. Inland North and U.S. Midland. The resulting utterances were acoustically analyzed, and presented to listeners on Amazon Mechanical Tu...

Cross-Dialectal Arabic Processing

We present, in this paper an Arabic multi-dialect study including dialects from both the Maghreb and the Middle-east that we compare to the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Three dialects from Maghreb are concerned by this study: two from Algeria and one from Tunisia and two dialects from Middle-east (Syria and Palestine). The resources which have been built from scratch have lead to a collection ...

Tonal Neutralization in Chinese: a Cross-Dialectal Perspective

The general aim of this paper is to elucidate the nature of the tonal neutralization and the relationship between the neutral tone and (weak) stress in Chinese. Although there has been increased recent interest in various prosodic aspects of this language, most of the previous studies mainly focused on the interaction of tone and intonation. Relatively little attention has been paid to stress, ...

A cross-dialectal model of voicing assimilation in Peninsular Spanish

How much imitation is there in a shadowing task?

Phonetic imitation, also called phonetic convergence, is currently at the heart of numerous investigations since it can inform us on both the nature of lexical representations and the link between production and perception processes in spoken language communication. A task that has been largely used to study phonetic imitation is the shadowing task, in which participants merely listen to and re...