Grants
The Production and Perception of American English Epenthetic [t] (2005-2006)
- Award Holder: Amalia Arvaniti (PI)
- RAs and collaborators: Rebecca Colavin, Cynthia Kilpatrick, Michael Landis, David Romano, and Ryan Shosted
- Awarding Body: General Campus Subcommittee on Research, UCSD
- The aim of the project is to investigate the acoustics, articulation and perception of epenthetic [t] in two Southern California populations, speakers in their early 20s and speakers in their 50s. The study is based on the hypothesis that recent results, which found no differences between underlying and epenthetic [t]s as earlier studies did, may be due to a change in the status of epenthetic [t], particularly in familiar words as produced by the younger speakers. The publications below discuss the first production and perception results from this study.
- Publications and presentations:
- * Arvaniti, Amalia. Stop epenthesis revisited. Poster presented at the 10th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Paris, France, 29 June-1 July 2006.
- * Arvaniti, Amalia, Ryan Shosted and Cynthia Kilpatrick (2006). On the perception of epenthetic stops in American English. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, p. 3249. (Poster presented at the 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI, 28 November-2 December 2006.)
- * Arvaniti, Amalia and Cynthia Kilpatrick. The production and perception of epenthetic stops. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 4-7 January 2007, Anaheim, CA.
Declination and Accentuation Effects on the Scaling and Timing of Tonal Targets in Greek (2002-2004)
- Award Holder: Amalia Arvaniti (PI)
- RAs and collaborators: Gina Garding and Svetlana Godjevac
- Awarding Body: General Campus Subcommittee on Research, UCSD
- The original aim of the project was to investigate the contribution of declination, downstep and final lowering to the scaling of tonal targets in default and list intonation in Greek. At a second stage, the Greek data are compared to additional experimental results from American and British English.
- Publications and presentations:
- * Arvaniti, Amalia (to appear) On the presence of final lowering in British and American English. In C. Gussenhoven and T. Riad (eds), Tones and Tunes, volume II, Phonetic and Behavioural Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
- * Arvaniti, Amalia (2004) Final lowering: Fact, artifact or dialectal variation? J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, p. 2644.
- * Arvaniti, Amalia (2003) Peak scaling in Greek and the role of declination. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 2269-2272. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona.
- * Arvaniti, Amalia and Svetlana Godjevac (2003) The origins and scope of final lowering in English and Greek. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 1077-1080. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona.
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- Award Holders: Carlos Gussenhoven (Nijmegen) [Network Organizer]; Amalia Arvaniti (UCSD), Gorka Elordieta (Basque Country), Sónia Frota (Lisbon), Esther Grabe (Oxford), Aditi Lahiri (Konstanz), Thomas Riad (Stockholm), Norval Smith (Amsterdam) [Chief-Coordinators].
- Awarding Body: European Science Foundation.
- The aim of the network was to bring together (by means of workshops and an open conference) researchers working on tone and intonation in various European languages. A preliminary workshop was held in June 2001 at the University of the Basque Country. The first workshop, organized by Aditi Lahiri, took place at Schloss Freudental, Konstanz in the spring of 2002; its theme was tonogenesis. A second workshop, organized by Esther Grabe, took place in the spring 2003 in Oxford; its theme was experimental approaches to tone and intonation. A third workshop, organized by Sonia Frota, took place in Cascais, Portugal in the spring of 2004; its theme was typology. An open conference took place in Santorini, Greece, in September 2004. A final workshop, organized by Aditi Lahiri, took place in Schloss Freudental, Konstanz in the Spring of 2005. The Santorini Conference was so successful, a second conference was organized in Berlin in September 2006 (TIE2).
