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Journal articles on the topic "Minimal pair (Linguistics)"

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Smith, Jennifer, Marian Downs, and Kay Mogford-Bevan. "Can Phonological Awareness Training Facilitate Minimal Pair Therapy?" International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 33, S1 (January 1998): 463–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13682829809179469.

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van Borsel, John, and Heidi Demeulenaere. "The minimal pair technique and the remediation of spelling problems." Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 12, no. 5 (September 1, 1998): 379–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/02699209808985232.

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Borsel, John van, and Heidi Demeulenaere. "The minimal pair technique and the remediation of spelling problems." Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 12, no. 5 (January 1998): 379–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699209808985232.

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Doqaruni, Vahid Rahmani. "Investigating bilinguals’ cognitive processing of affective words in minimal linguistic contexts." Mental Lexicon 16, no. 2-3 (December 31, 2021): 422–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ml.20026.doq.

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Abstract The main aims of the present study are, first, to extend the current cognitive research on affective word processing in bilinguals by analyzing affective words in minimal linguistic contexts and, second, to explore the potential impact of the affective valence of prime nouns on the affective valence of target adjectives. To fulfill these aims, a semantic decision task was employed in which the Persian-English bilinguals saw a pair of words one after another, and were asked to decide whether or not the target word, which was an adjective loaded with positive or negative valence, was related in meaning to the preceding word, which was a noun. Mixed factorial repeated measure ANOVA was run on reaction times and error rates data. The results showed that bilinguals’ responses were slower and less accurate to negative target adjectives in comparison to positive target adjectives. The data further revealed that bilinguals were faster but less accurate when they were responding to related target adjectives compared to unrelated target adjectives. The results provide evidence for a dynamic interaction between cognitive and affective language processing in bilinguals.

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BARANOWSKI, MACIEJ. "On the role of social factors in the loss of phonemic distinctions." English Language and Linguistics 17, no. 2 (June 10, 2013): 271–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674313000038.

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The article tests the generalisation of the curvilinear hypothesis and the tendency of females to lead linguistic change in vocalic mergers on the basis of two mergers currently in progress in Charleston, South Carolina: the low-back merger and thepin–penmerger. It is based on sociolinguistic interviews with 100 informants, aged 8–90, covering the socioeconomic spectrum of the city. The speech of 90 of the informants is analysed acoustically; it is supplemented with minimal-pair tests and word list reading. F1/F2 measurements and minimal-pair test results are subjected to a series of multiple linear regression analyses, with social class, gender, age and style as independent variables. While the low-back merger is a change from below showing a female lead and a curvilinear effect of social class, thepin–penmerger shows a decreasing monotonic relationship with social class and no female advantage. The difference is argued to be due to the two mergers being at different levels of social awareness.

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FAIS, Laurel, and Eric VATIKIOTIS-BATESON. "Task-appropriate input supports word–object association in 14-month-old female infants." Journal of Child Language 47, no. 2 (October 10, 2019): 472–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000919000588.

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AbstractFourteen-month-old infants are unable to link minimal pair nonsense words with novel objects (Stager & Werker, 1997). Might an adult's productions in a word learning context support minimal pair word–object association in these infants? We recorded a mother interacting with her 24-month-old son, and with her 5-month-old son, producing nonsense words bin and din. We used these productions to determine if they had a differential effect on 14-month-old infants’ word–object association abilities. Females hearing the words spoken to the older infant, but not those to the younger, succeeded. We suggest that the task-appropriateness of utterances can support infant word learning.

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Hodge, Megan M., and Carrie L. Gotzke. "Minimal pair distinctions and intelligibility in preschool children with and without speech sound disorders." Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 25, no. 10 (May 18, 2011): 853–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2011.578783.

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Grünthal, Riho, and Johanna Nichols. "Transitivizing-detransitivizing typology and language family history." Lingua Posnaniensis 58, no. 2 (December 20, 2016): 11–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/linpo-2016-0008.

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AbstractThe transitivizing/detransitivizing typology of Nichols et al. 2004 also proves useful to historical linguistics. We focus on language families of northern Eurasia, chiefly the three oldest families (Indo-European, Uralic, Nakh-Daghestanian), some of their daughter branches aged about 2000-3000 years, and one younger family for which we have data on enough daughters to support a family phylogeny (Tungusic). We use the 18-pair wordlist of Nichols et al. 2004, which typologizes each pair of verbs depending on which of the two is derived. We make some improvements in the coding of grammatical properties and the typologization of pairs. NeighborNet trees based on this information reveal family-wide linguistic geography and areal trends. Adding minimal information about the cognacy or non-cognacy of the roots of the wordlist items produces Neighbor- Net trees which approximate well the known phylogeny of the family. Thus very small closed data sets, collected originally for typology, yield rich information about language family history - strikingly, a mere 18 verbs (9 pairs), coded for morphological type and cognacy, yield a very good genealogical tree - while historical methods have also improved the typology.

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Evans, Samuel, and Stuart Rosen. "Who is Right? A Word-Identification-in-Noise Test for Young Children Using Minimal Pair Distracters." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 65, no. 1 (January 12, 2022): 159–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2021_jslhr-20-00658.

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Purpose: Many children have difficulties understanding speech. At present, there are few assessments that test for subtle impairments in speech perception with normative data from U.K. children. We present a new test that evaluates children's ability to identify target words in background noise by choosing between minimal pair alternatives that differ by a single articulatory phonetic feature. This task (a) is tailored to testing young children, but also readily applicable to adults; (b) has minimal memory demands; (c) adapts to the child's ability; and (d) does not require reading or verbal output. Method: We tested 155 children and young adults aged from 5 to 25 years on this new test of single word perception. Results: Speech-in-noise abilities in this particular task develop rapidly through childhood until they reach maturity at around 9 years of age. Conclusions: We make this test freely available and provide associated normative data. We hope that it will be useful to researchers and clinicians in the assessment of speech perception abilities in children who are hard of hearing or have developmental language disorder, dyslexia, or auditory processing disorder. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.17155934

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Bassetti, Bene, Mirjana Sokolović-Perović, Paolo Mairano, and Tania Cerni. "Orthography-Induced Length Contrasts in the Second Language Phonological Systems of L2 Speakers of English: Evidence from Minimal Pairs." Language and Speech 61, no. 4 (June 18, 2018): 577–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830918780141.

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Research shows that the orthographic forms (“spellings”) of second language (L2) words affect speech production in L2 speakers. This study investigated whether English orthographic forms lead L2 speakers to produce English homophonic word pairs as phonological minimal pairs. Targets were 33 orthographic minimal pairs, that is to say homophonic words that would be pronounced as phonological minimal pairs if orthography affects pronunciation. Word pairs contained the same target sound spelled with one letter or two, such as the /n/ in finish and Finnish (both /ˈfɪnɪʃ/ in Standard British English). To test for effects of length and type of L2 exposure, we compared Italian instructed learners of English, Italian-English late bilinguals with lengthy naturalistic exposure, and English natives. A reading-aloud task revealed that Italian speakers of EnglishL2 produce two English homophonic words as a minimal pair distinguished by different consonant or vowel length, for instance producing the target /ˈfɪnɪʃ/ with a short [n] or a long [nː] to reflect the number of consonant letters in the spelling of the words finish and Finnish. Similar effects were found on the pronunciation of vowels, for instance in the orthographic pair scene-seen (both /siːn/). Naturalistic exposure did not reduce orthographic effects, as effects were found both in learners and in late bilinguals living in an English-speaking environment. It appears that the orthographic form of L2 words can result in the establishment of a phonological contrast that does not exist in the target language. Results have implications for models of L2 phonological development.

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Books on the topic "Minimal pair (Linguistics)"

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The phonology of contrast. Oakville, CT: Equinox Pub., 2010.

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Łubowicz, Anna. The phonology of contrast. Oakville, CT: Equinox Pub., 2010.

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The role and representation of minimal contrast and the phonetics-phonology interaction. München: Lincom Europa, 2009.

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Peter, Avery, Dresher Elan, and Rice Keren 1949-, eds. Contrast in phonology: Theory, perception, acquisition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Berlin, 2008.

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Avery, Peter, B. Elan Dresher, and Keren Rice. Contrast in Phonology: Theory, Perception, Acquisition. De Gruyter, Inc., 2008.

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Avery, Peter, B. Elan Dresher, and Keren Rice. Contrast in Phonology: Theory, Perception, Acquisition. De Gruyter, Inc., 2008.

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Löfqvist, Anders. Articulatory coordination in long and short consonants. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754930.003.0006.

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This study examined interarticulator programming of lip and tongue movements in the production of single and geminate consonants in Japanese and Italian. One issue addressed is whether the traditional description of Japanese as mora-timed and Italian as syllable-timed is associated with differences in interarticulator programming at the segmental level. Native speakers of Japanese and Italian served as subjects. The linguistic material consisted of Italian and Japanese words forming minimal pairs, with a sequence of vowel-bilabial nasal-vowel, where the duration of the consonant was either long or short. Recordings were made of lip and tongue movements using a magnetometer system. The results show no evidence of any stable relative timing differences between Japanese and Italian. These findings are also very similar to the results of a study of American English. Thus, rhythm class does not appear to reliably influence the timing of lip and tongue movements.

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Book chapters on the topic "Minimal pair (Linguistics)"

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Ferrer, J., and N. Moncunill. "The epigraphic and linguistic situation in the south-west of the Iberian peninsula." In Palaeohispanic Languages and Epigraphies, 109–37. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790822.003.0005.

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This chapter’s analysis of the language of the south-west Iberian peninsula concludes that it consists of five vowels, one lateral consonant, one vibrant (plus another doubtful example), one nasal consonant, two sibilants, and three stops (occlusives) although the writing system does not enable us to make more precise statements about the latter; the frequent and non-existent combinations between the different phonemes are also established. The successive attempts to decipher the language are described, special attention being paid to the most recent of them, the weak points of which are specified, and the minimal contribution of Latinized personal names is pointed out.

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van Gelderen, Elly. "Cyclical change and problems of projection." In Cycles in Language Change, 13–32. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824961.003.0002.

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In diachronic change, specifiers are reanalysed as heads and heads as higher heads. When the older specifiers and heads are renewed, a linguistic cycle emerges. Explanations provided for these cycles include structural and featural economy (e.g. van Gelderen 2004; 2011). Chomsky’s (2013, 2015) focus on labelling as unconnected to merge makes it possible to see the cycles in another way, namely as resolutions to labelling problems. The Labelling Algorithm (LA) operates after merge is complete, when a syntactic derivation is transferred to the interfaces. When a head and a phrase merge, the LA determines that the head is the label by Minimal Search. Where two phrases merge, the LA cannot find the head and one of the phrases has to either move or share features with the other. This chapter argues that, in addition to Chomsky’s resolutions to labelling paradoxes, reanalysing a phrase as a head also resolves the paradox. It also shows that the third factor principle minimal search is preferable over feature-sharing. The change from phrase to head is frequent, as eight cross-linguistically attested changes show. In addition, in the renewal stage of a cycle, adjuncts are frequently incorporated as arguments showing a preference of set-merge (feature-sharing) over pair-merge.

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Prineas, Stavros, and Andrew F. Smith. "To begin …" In Handbook of Communication in Anaesthesia & Critical Care. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199577286.003.0007.

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Communication is an innately fascinating and, on occasions, a somewhat mysterious topic. At its heart, it is the means of expressing, both to ourselves and to others, how we perceive the world and how we influence the world around us. It is a tool for exchanging information and meaning, but also a way to connect with others. While obviously a means to an end, it is also an end in itself—without the ability to share with others, life would be greatly impoverished. The many human dimensions of communication— the practical, the social, the linguistic, the lyrical, the subliminal, its ability to soothe and to injure, to inform, to entertain, to terrify—are what make this topic so challenging. Anaesthesia has come a very long way since the 1840s. The advent of safer and more selective drugs, coupled with ever more sophisticated technology, has made the practice of anaesthesia safer, yet also more complicated. The patients that we treat are often older, have multiple co-morbidities, and are undergoing procedures that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. Yet with the increasingly complex workload have come the additional pressures of time and resource allocation. Patients are admitted on the day of surgery, leaving minimal time for anaesthetic assessment. Anaesthetists are frequently busy, isolated and unavailable when working in theatre, or find themselves working at multiple sites with little opportunity for interaction with colleagues. Similarly, theatre staff rarely work in the same operating room with the same team on a regular basis. The hospital administrators are under constant pressure as they strain to contain costs and reduce length of stay, while wards are increasingly understaffed and overworked. In the midst of all this, patients are left wondering who is actually caring for them, and if anyone is listening to their concerns. Anaesthetists play a crucial role in multi-professional teams in a wide variety of clinical settings of which theatre is only one. There is the high dependency unit (HDU), the labour suite, paediatrics, the chronic pain clinic—to name but a few. In almost every aspect of anaesthetic clinical practice the ability to communicate effectively is a vital component of patient care.

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Conference papers on the topic "Minimal pair (Linguistics)"

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Poukarová, Petra, and Jitka Veroňková. "Degree of Czech R/L acquisition in L1 Chinese speakers." In 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics. ExLing Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36505/exling-2020/11/0040/000455.

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This paper is based on the assumption that a successful acquisition of L2 is facilitated when the individual needs of particular students are taken into consideration. Our goal is to screen the perception and production of r- and l-sounds in Chinese students of Czech as L2. The experiment, in which 8 subjects participated, is based on minimal pairs and consists of a listening test (72 items) and recording of read speech (single words and sentences containing target words, 64 items per speaker). Within the set of minimal pairs, the position and the combination of the target sounds are controlled. The procedure was also tested regarding its suitability for the systematic screening of students' skills.

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Nishizawa, Hitoshi. "Reverse Linguistic Stereotyping in On-Line Processing: Word Recognition of Minimal Pitch-Accent Pairs in Tokyo Japanese." In Virtual PSLLT. Iowa State University Digital Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13349.

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