Categorical and Non-Categorical Perception of Marginal Phonemes
Categorical and Non-Categorical Perception of Marginal Phonemes
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151029
- ISBN
- 9798381960839
- DDC
- 401
- 저자명
- Zhou, Zhenglong.
- 서명/저자
- Categorical and Non-Categorical Perception of Marginal Phonemes
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Los Angeles, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 145 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-09, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Keating, Patricia.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Marginal phonemes and contrasts occupy a complex position in linguistic theory, as traditional theories of phonemehood do not account for marginality. However, contemporary linguistics has found that phonemic contrast strength is not fixed in childhood but rather continues to change, thus implicating the lexicon, the set of words a speaker knows, as a factor in the behavior of phonemic contrasts.This dissertation takes this link between category strength and the lexicon and treats it as an empirical question. I identify token frequency and type informativity, measures of frequency and predictability within a lexicon, as potential predictors of individual behavior. I then justify and present an experimental procedure for an eye tracking, two-alternative forced choice, categorization study on three phonetic continua - [a͡ɪ]-[ʌ͡i], a marginal contrast; [a͡ɪ]-[ɔ͡ɪ], a classic phonemic contrast; and [ʌ͡i]-[ɔ͡ɪ], a mixed case - in Canadian English, using the visual world paradigm. I discuss decisions that were made in the design of the experiment, including how individual lexicons were probed and why multiple continua were examined.Analyzing the resultant eye tracking data both graphically and by GAMM model comparison, I find that behavior was not interpretably predicted by my selected predictors, though their contribution to bias, a normalized preference measure, was statistically significant. I report on the behavioral patterns that were found in the categorization data and show that participants with differential behavior did not have statistically significant differences in either frequency or informativity in nearly all cases.My findings come as a surprise, as predicting that variation in the lexicon (operationalized as frequency and informativity) should influence linguistic behavior is both obvious and supported by the literature. I thus present my thoughts on why these predictors were not significant ones as well as my suspicion that the process of calculating these lexical statistics was poisoned by the likely incorrect assumption that a marginal phoneme can be treated as if it were a strong phoneme for the purposes of calculation. I close with suggestions for future work that could advance understanding of this issue, including potential test cases and the need for alternative operationalizations of frequency and predictability for marginal phonemes.
- 일반주제명
- Linguistics
- 일반주제명
- Behavioral sciences
- 일반주제명
- Cognitive psychology
- 일반주제명
- Experimental psychology
- 일반주제명
- Sociolinguistics
- 키워드
- Canadian Raising
- 키워드
- Vowel perception
- 기타저자
- University of California, Los Angeles Linguistics 0510
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-09B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aMarginal phonemes and contrasts occupy a complex position in linguistic theory, as traditional theories of phonemehood do not account for marginality. However, contemporary linguistics has found that phonemic contrast strength is not fixed in childhood but rather continues to change, thus implicating the lexicon, the set of words a speaker knows, as a factor in the behavior of phonemic contrasts.This dissertation takes this link between category strength and the lexicon and treats it as an empirical question. I identify token frequency and type informativity, measures of frequency and predictability within a lexicon, as potential predictors of individual behavior. I then justify and present an experimental procedure for an eye tracking, two-alternative forced choice, categorization study on three phonetic continua - [a͡ɪ]-[ʌ͡i], a marginal contrast; [a͡ɪ]-[ɔ͡ɪ], a classic phonemic contrast; and [ʌ͡i]-[ɔ͡ɪ], a mixed case - in Canadian English, using the visual world paradigm. I discuss decisions that were made in the design of the experiment, including how individual lexicons were probed and why multiple continua were examined.Analyzing the resultant eye tracking data both graphically and by GAMM model comparison, I find that behavior was not interpretably predicted by my selected predictors, though their contribution to bias, a normalized preference measure, was statistically significant. I report on the behavioral patterns that were found in the categorization data and show that participants with differential behavior did not have statistically significant differences in either frequency or informativity in nearly all cases.My findings come as a surprise, as predicting that variation in the lexicon (operationalized as frequency and informativity) should influence linguistic behavior is both obvious and supported by the literature. I thus present my thoughts on why these predictors were not significant ones as well as my suspicion that the process of calculating these lexical statistics was poisoned by the likely incorrect assumption that a marginal phoneme can be treated as if it were a strong phoneme for the purposes of calculation. I close with suggestions for future work that could advance understanding of this issue, including potential test cases and the need for alternative operationalizations of frequency and predictability for marginal phonemes.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0031.
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■650 4▼aBehavioral sciences
■650 4▼aCognitive psychology
■650 4▼aExperimental psychology
■650 4▼aSociolinguistics
■653 ▼aCanadian Raising
■653 ▼aCategorical speech perception
■653 ▼aMarginal contrast
■653 ▼aMarginal phonemes
■653 ▼aSpeech perception
■653 ▼aVowel perception
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