Monthly Archives: December 2022

Effects of vowel and syllable position on laterals in bilingual speakers of English and Spanish

Posted on 19th December 2022 by Fengting

Date: 23/11/2022 Being interested in sound systems from the perspective of both production and perception, Niamh Kelly ran a project examining the production of /l/ sounds by bilingual speakers of English and Spanish from the El Paso region, to investigate … Continue reading →

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Nonword Learning Project

Posted on 12th December 2022 by Fengting

Date: 14/11/2022 Rory Turnbull gave us a talk on his research on what influences the phonological structure of the words in a language.  The train of thoughts: The talk started with narrowing down the research questions: from the big question … Continue reading →

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Kaleidoscopic boundary tones

Posted on 8th December 2022 by Fengting

Date: 24/10/2022 Cong Zhang gave us a talk on boundary tones in Mandarin.  Background information: Intonational tunes are generally made up of pitch accents and edge/boundary tones. The intonation in a tonal language is difficult to phonologise as F0 can … Continue reading →

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