Sam Hellmuth

Datos Biográficos

ID127398
NOMBRESam Hellmuth
NOMBRESSam
APELLIDOHellmuth
FIRMAHELLMUTH S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of York
ORCID0000-0002-0062-904X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2007
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
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  • Written input and the encoding of L2 phonological contrasts

    Open AccessLouise Shepperd, Louise Hannah Shepperd et al.ARTICLEStudies in Second Language…2026

    Many adults learn languages with written forms that differ from their first language(s). Empirical research has demonstrated the influential role of written input on developing L2 phonology. However, existing studies are limited by (1) focusing on learning languages that share the same orthographic script, predominantly the Latin alphabet, (2) small sample sizes, and (3) limited consideration of L2 proficiency. This study investigated the influen…

  • Speech Timing and the Perception of Foreign Accent

    Open AccessGhazi Algethami, Sam HellmuthARTICLELanguage and Speech2026

    This study reports an experiment conducted to examine the contribution of non-native speech timing to the perception of foreign accent. Native English listeners rated utterances produced in English by speakers whose first language was English or Saudi Arabic, for the degree of perceived foreign accent. The utterances were acoustically modified to significantly reduce segmental and intonational information available to the listeners. The listeners…

  • Methods for investigation of L2 speech rhythm

    Open AccessGhazi Algethami, Sam HellmuthARTICLESecond language Research2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 5

    Rhythm metrics can detect second language development of target-like speech rhythm but interpretation of the results from metrics in learners’ speech is problematic because the mapping of metrics to underpinning phonological features is indirect. We investigate speech rhythm in first language (L1) Arabic / second language (L2) English, which differ in key properties contributing to the percept of rhythm: unstressed vowel reduction and syllable st…

  • Sentence Prosody and Register Variation in Arabic

    Open AccessSam HellmuthARTICLELanguages2022Referencias: 27

    Diglossia in Arabic differs from bilingualism in functional differentiation and mode of acquisition of the two registers used by all speakers raised in an Arabic-speaking environment. The ‘low’ (L) regional spoken dialect is acquired naturally and used in daily life, but the ‘high’ (H) variety, Modern Standard Arabic, is learned and used in formal settings. Register variation between the two ends of this H–L continuum is ubiquitous in everyday in…

  • Acoustic correlates of lexical stress in Moroccan Arabic

    Open AccessAnna Bruggeman, Nabila Louriz et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International…2021

    Presently there is no consensus regarding the interpretation and analysis of the stress system of Moroccan Arabic. This paper tests whether the acoustic realisation of syllables support one widely adopted interpretation of lexical stress, according to which stress is either penultimate or final depending on syllable weight. The experiment reports on word-initial syllables that differ in presumed stress status. Target words were embedded in a carr…

  • North Africa and the Middle East

    Sam Hellmuth, Mary Pearce et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter provides an overview of the prosodic systems of languages spoken in North Africa and the Middle East, taking in North Africa and the Horn of Africa, plus the Arabian Peninsula, and the Middle East (but excluding Kurdish). The survey sketches the nature and scope of typological variation—in respect to prosody—across the whole of the Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan language families, addressing, within the limits of the existing literatu…

  • Variation in Prosodic and segmental marking of yes-no questions in Tunisian Arabic

    Open AccessNadia Bouchhioua, Sam Hellmuth et al.CHAPTERStudies on Arabic Dialectology…2019

    Recent work has highlighted the consistent co-occurrence of a partial rise-fall prosodic contour with a segmental vowel epenthesis marker to mark yes-no questions in the Tunisian Arabic of Tunis; the incidence of the segmental marker (epenthesis) varied according to the external factor gender, but did not vary according to language internal factors, such as phonological environment. In this paper we explore the relationship between the prosodic a…

  • F2 slope as a Perceptual Cue for the Front–Back Contrast in Standard Southern British English

    Open AccessKateřina Chládková, Silke Hamann et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2017Citada por: 2Referencias: 25

    Acoustic studies of several languages indicate that second-formant (F2) slopes in high vowels have opposing directions (independent of consonantal context): front [iː]-like vowels are produced with a rising F2 slope, whereas back [uː]-like vowels are produced with a falling F2 slope. The present study first reports acoustic measurements that confirm this pattern for the English variety of Standard Southern British English (SSBE), where /uː/ has s…

  • The relationship between prosodic structure and pitch accent distribution

    Sam HellmuthARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2007

    This article explores the relationship between prosodic structure and pitch accent distribution in the context of empirical evidence from spoken Egyptian Arabic (EA), a language in which every content word routinely bears a pitch accent. In languages with more sparse pitch accent distribution, this has been explained in terms of obligatory accentuation of the heads of prosodic constituents at the phonological phrase level. Evidence from a corpus …