Karthik Durvasula
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1719748 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karthik Durvasula |
| NOMBRES | Karthik |
| APELLIDO | Durvasula |
| FIRMA | DURVASULA K |
| AFILIACIONES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7739-7470 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
O gradience, where art thou? Examining backness harmony in Uyghur
Discreteness of representations is a core commitment of classical generative phonology. However, one of the biggest arguments levelled against discreteness has come from the phenomenon of incomplete neutralisation – where the output of some phonological process on a feature [F] is phonetically distinct from underived [±F]. A sizeable body of work has contended that incomplete neutralisation crucially undermines the sufficiency of discrete represe…
Can you judge what you don’t hear? Perception as a source of gradient wordlikeness judgements
A key observation about wordlikeness judgements, going back to some of the earliest work on the topic is that they are gradient in the sense that nonce words tend to form a cline of acceptability. In recent years, such gradience has been modelled as stemming from a gradient phonotactic grammar or from a lexical similarity effect. In this article, we present two experiments that suggest that at least some of the observed gradience stems from grad…
Phonetically incomplete neutralisation can be phonologically complete
The phenomenon of incomplete neutralisation describes a situation where a putative case of categorical phonological neutralisation is observed to be phonetically non-neutralising. This has been argued to be a problem for phonological theories that employ categorical features. Here, we use two distinct feeding orders of tone sandhi processes from Huai’an Mandarin to show that incomplete phonetic neutralisation is compatible with categorical phonol…
Articulatory coordination distinguishes complex segments from segment sequences
Phonological patterning motivates a distinction between complex segments and segment sequences, although it has also been suggested that there might be reliable phonetic differences. We develop the hypothesis that, in addition to their distinct phonological patterning, complex segments differ from segment sequences in how constituent articulatory gestures are coordinated in time. Through computational simulation, we illustrate predictions that fo…
Probing syllable structure through acoustic measurements
Previous research has found that different syllabic (particularly simplex vs. complex onset) organisations have different temporal stability signatures in articulations – this observation is based entirely on articulatory measurements. In this article, we present the results of three production experiments which show that similar correlations between onset organisation and temporal stability metrics are observable in an analysis of acoustic measu…
Lexically-guided perceptual learning does generalize to new phonetic contexts
There is a simplicity bias when generalising from ambiguous data
How exactly do learners generalise in the face of ambiguous data? While there has been a substantial amount of research studying the biases that learners employ, there has been very little work on what sorts of biases are employed in the face of data that is ambiguous between phonological generalisations with different degrees of complexity. In this article, we present the results from three artificial language learning experiments that suggest t…
Is there phonological feature priming
While there is robust evidence of segment priming, particularly in some real word contexts, there is little to no evidence bearing on the issue of priming of subsegmental features, particularly phonological features . In this article, we present two lexical decision task experiments to show that there are no consistent priming effects attributable to phonological place of articulation features. Given that there is clear evidence of segment primin…
Temporal Coordination and Sonority of Jazani Arabic Word-Initial Clusters
Previous research on the organization of syllable-structure, relying on the timing of the articulators suggests that though both English and Moroccan Arabic have word-initial consonant clusters, Moroccan Arabic does not have complex onsets, while English does (Browman and Goldstein, 1988; Byrd, 1995; Shaw et al., 2011). However, typically, such research employs expensive articulatory equipment. This limits the research to those who have access to…
Lexical Retuning Targets Features
Previous work has shown that listeners systematically ``retune'' their categorical boundaries when presented with real-word tokens containing an ambiguous segment. There have been multiple previous studies on this lexically-guided retuning (Eisner and Mc- Queen 2005; McQueen et al. 2006; Norris et al. 2003), but the level of representation that retuning targets is not entirely clear. In this paper, we show that retuning occurs at the level of fea…
Word-internal “ambisyllabic” consonants are not multiply-linked in American English
The role of phrasal phonology in speech perception
Illusory vowels in perceptual epenthesis
Listeners often perceive illusory vowels when presented with consonant sequences that violate phonotactic constraints in their language. Previous research suggests that the phenomenon motivates speech-perception models that incorporate surface phonotactic information and the acoustics of the speech tokens. In this article, inspired by Bayesian models of speech perception, we claim that the listener attempts to identify target phonemic representat…
Illusory vowels in perceptual epenthesis
Listeners often perceive illusory vowels when presented with consonant sequences that violate phonotactic constraints in their language. Previous research suggests that the phenomenon motivates speech-perception models that incorporate surface phonotactic information and the acoustics of the speech tokens. In this article, inspired by Bayesian models of speech perception, we claim that the listener attempts to identify target phonemic representat…
The role of phrasal phonology in speech perception
Word-internal “ambisyllabic” consonants are not multiply-linked in American English
Lexical Retuning Targets Features
Previous work has shown that listeners systematically ``retune'' their categorical boundaries when presented with real-word tokens containing an ambiguous segment. There have been multiple previous studies on this lexically-guided retuning (Eisner and Mc- Queen 2005; McQueen et al. 2006; Norris et al. 2003), but the level of representation that retuning targets is not entirely clear. In this paper, we show that retuning occurs at the level of fea…
Is there phonological feature priming
While there is robust evidence of segment priming, particularly in some real word contexts, there is little to no evidence bearing on the issue of priming of subsegmental features, particularly phonological features . In this article, we present two lexical decision task experiments to show that there are no consistent priming effects attributable to phonological place of articulation features. Given that there is clear evidence of segment primin…
Temporal Coordination and Sonority of Jazani Arabic Word-Initial Clusters
Previous research on the organization of syllable-structure, relying on the timing of the articulators suggests that though both English and Moroccan Arabic have word-initial consonant clusters, Moroccan Arabic does not have complex onsets, while English does (Browman and Goldstein, 1988; Byrd, 1995; Shaw et al., 2011). However, typically, such research employs expensive articulatory equipment. This limits the research to those who have access to…
There is a simplicity bias when generalising from ambiguous data
How exactly do learners generalise in the face of ambiguous data? While there has been a substantial amount of research studying the biases that learners employ, there has been very little work on what sorts of biases are employed in the face of data that is ambiguous between phonological generalisations with different degrees of complexity. In this article, we present the results from three artificial language learning experiments that suggest t…
Articulatory coordination distinguishes complex segments from segment sequences
Phonological patterning motivates a distinction between complex segments and segment sequences, although it has also been suggested that there might be reliable phonetic differences. We develop the hypothesis that, in addition to their distinct phonological patterning, complex segments differ from segment sequences in how constituent articulatory gestures are coordinated in time. Through computational simulation, we illustrate predictions that fo…
Probing syllable structure through acoustic measurements
Previous research has found that different syllabic (particularly simplex vs. complex onset) organisations have different temporal stability signatures in articulations – this observation is based entirely on articulatory measurements. In this article, we present the results of three production experiments which show that similar correlations between onset organisation and temporal stability metrics are observable in an analysis of acoustic measu…
Lexically-guided perceptual learning does generalize to new phonetic contexts
Phonetically incomplete neutralisation can be phonologically complete
The phenomenon of incomplete neutralisation describes a situation where a putative case of categorical phonological neutralisation is observed to be phonetically non-neutralising. This has been argued to be a problem for phonological theories that employ categorical features. Here, we use two distinct feeding orders of tone sandhi processes from Huai’an Mandarin to show that incomplete phonetic neutralisation is compatible with categorical phonol…
Can you judge what you don’t hear? Perception as a source of gradient wordlikeness judgements
A key observation about wordlikeness judgements, going back to some of the earliest work on the topic is that they are gradient in the sense that nonce words tend to form a cline of acceptability. In recent years, such gradience has been modelled as stemming from a gradient phonotactic grammar or from a lexical similarity effect. In this article, we present two experiments that suggest that at least some of the observed gradience stems from grad…
O gradience, where art thou? Examining backness harmony in Uyghur
Discreteness of representations is a core commitment of classical generative phonology. However, one of the biggest arguments levelled against discreteness has come from the phenomenon of incomplete neutralisation – where the output of some phonological process on a feature [F] is phonetically distinct from underived [±F]. A sizeable body of work has contended that incomplete neutralisation crucially undermines the sufficiency of discrete represe…
Phonetics and Phonology Research (13 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Linguistics (10 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 obras) · Phonology (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Speech recognition (6 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (5 obras) · Natural language processing (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras)