David Eddington
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 752083 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Eddington |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Eddington |
| FIRMA | EDDINGTON D |
| AFILIACIONES | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2329-1640 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Utah Naming Practices, 1960–2020
You can tell you are from Utah if you are Jaxton, your mother is Sariah, and your grandparents are Alma and LaRue. Jokes such as this one, which center on the creative names many residents of the state of Utah in the United States give their offspring, abound.1 It is not just the more modern varieties like Kaylee and Kaden that have caught people's ears. In 1945, Henry Louis Mencken noted unusual names in the state belonging to the now uncommon L…
Diminutive formation in Brazilian Portuguese
In a survey, 1,053 Brazilians provided the diminutive form of 60 test words. For example, given desconto participants provided diminutives such as descontinho or descontito. Most responses involved the suffixes - zinho and -inho. However, in many cases - zito and -ito were given as well . Statistical analysis revealed that the final phone and stress pattern of the base word were the most important predictors of diminutive form. A number of age-ap…
A Corpus Analysis of Some Usage Differences Among Spanish-Speaking Countries
The Corpus del Espaol / Web Dialects was used to study usage differences among 21 Spanishspeaking countries. This included variation in verbal morphology: the use of -ra and -se forms of the past subjunctive (e.g. comiera~comiese), and final -s on 2 nd person singular preterites (e.g. pusistes). The appearance of haban with plural arguments (e.g. haban muchas rias), the use of the present perfect to express recent past events (e.g. Esta maana lo …
A production and perception study of /t/ glottalization and oral releases following glottals in the US
The articulation of /t/ in American English varies according to linguistic and extralinguistic factors. Concerning social factors, word-final /t/ glottalization is seen more among speakers of African American English (Farrington 2018), younger speakers (Partin-Hernandez 2005, Roberts 2006), and women (Byrd 1994, Eddington and Channer 2010). This paper examines the production and perception of /t/ in five US states: Indiana, Mississippi, New Mexic…
Examination of Manner of Motion Sound Symbolism for English Nonce Verbs
This paper offers cross-experimental verification of a previous study that found that English speakers considered velars, palatals, glides, and high vowels to be sound-symbolic of light and jerky movements. Heavy and smooth movements, by contrast, were associated with affricates, glottals, laterals, and non-high vowels. The present study sought to evaluate these findings through a novel experiment with English speaking subjects, who were asked to…
Dialectal variation in Spanish diminutives
While the diminutive form of most Spanish words is invariant, a great deal of variation is found in bisyllabic words that either contain /je, we/ in the stem (e. g., viejo ‘old’ > viejito/viejecito, pueblo ‘town’ > pueblecito/pueblito ), or that end in /e/ (e. g., dulce ‘sweet’ > dulcecito/dulcito ), or that end in /jo, ja/ (e. g., rubio ‘blonde’ > rubiecito/rubito ). Data from the Corpus del Español indicate that in many cases both diminutive fo…
In Search of Cowboy B
This article presents acoustic evidence for the existence of a bilabial implosive, [ƃ], in one variety of U.S. English. One articulatory observation is that vocal chord vibration of the English bilabial stop, /b/, can only be maintained for a maximum of about 82 ms. Increasing the vibration beyond this threshold is only possible by increasing the size of the vocal cavity, which in turn is often enabled by lowering the glottis, a gesture character…
An experimental approach to ambisyllabicity in English
The factors that influence English speakers to classify a consonant as ambisyllabic are explored in 581 bisyllabic words. The /b/ in habit, for example, was considered ambisyllabic when a participant chose hab as the first part of the word and bit as the second. Geminate spelling was found to interact with social variables; older participants and more educated speakers provided more ambisyllabic responses. The influence of word-level phonotactics…
Where Are the Moun[ɁƏ]ns in Utah
One stigmatized feature of Utah speech is the “dropped t” in words such as kitten and mountain. We investigated three possible phonetic correlates of “t-dropping” by recording participants from Utah and other Western states reading a document containing several instances of /t/ followed by a syllabic nasal. The first possible correlate, actual deletion of /t/, was uncommon but occurred slightly more often in the mouths of Utahns. The second possi…
Variation in the use of deber and deber de in written and oral materials from Latin America and Spain
deber deber de Deber Juan debe presentarse al trabajo mañana deber de Juan debe de tener unos 30 años deber de deber deber (de) deber deber de deber de deber deber de deber de de -n -s deber de
American English Has Goʔ A Loʔ Of Glottal Stops
In word-final, prevocalic position (e.g., it is) there are various possible phonetic realizations of /t/ in American English (e.g., [t], [ʕ], [ʔ]). The present study examines the linguistic and social factors associated with the use of the glottal stop in American English in 1,101 instances of word-final, prevocalic /t/ from the Santa Barbara Corpus. The glottal stop occurred in 24% of the cases. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify …
Linguistic Processing is Exemplar-Based
In contrast to rule systems, analogy assumes massive storage of previously experienced linguistic material. Accordingly, linguistic processing involves access to and comparison with this database of stored instances. Computationally explicit models of analogy allow analogical models to be tested empirically. One such model is shown to be quite effective in predicting the gender of Spanish nouns given their phonological makeup, and in mirroring ge…
T-Glottalization in American English
In word-final prevocalic position (e.g., right ankle), there are various possible phonetic realizations of /t/ in American English: [t], [], []. The present study focuses on the linguistic and social factors associated with the use of the glottal stop. Data were gathered by having participants repeat sentences they were presented auditorily (e.g., She twisted her right ankle). The particular pronunciation of /t/ in the presented sentences was mas…
Dialect Identification
This study examines whether two factors, region of origin (i.e., being from either Utah, Western states, or non-Western states) and amount of experience for those not native to Utah (having less than one, more than one but less than five, or over five years living in Utah), influence how well listeners are able to distinguish between Utah and non-Utah speakers and what phonetic characteristics they use to do so. The results suggest that the more …
Spanish verbal inflection
Spanish verbal inflection Four studies of Spanish morphology are examined that seem to support the dual-route model because they demonstrate an asymetry between regular and irregular verbal inflections. In Rodriguez-Fornells et al. (2002), ERPs were measured during a priming study. Regular targets demonstrated an increased positivity between 250 and 450 ms after the presentation of the stimulus, but irregulars did not. However, these findings are…
El abundante agua fría
According to some Spanish grammarians, including the Royal Spanish Academy, nouns like agua ‘water’, asa ‘handle’, etc., are feminine and take a phonologicallyconditioned allomorph of the definite article (el) that is identical to the masculine article. Our data, both from an experiment and from electronic searches, show that there is considerable fluctuation in the gender of prenominal, but not postnominal, modifiers, with nouns in this group ev…
The Phonetic Context of American English Flapping
The phonetic context in which word-medial flaps occur (in contrast to [th]) in American English is explored. The analysis focuses on stress placement, following phone, and syllabification. In Experiment 1, subjects provided their preference for [th] or [[symbol: see text]] in bisyllabic nonce words. Consistent with previous studies, flaps were preferred before stressless syllables and [th] before stressed syllables, but the following phone also e…
Flaps and other variants of /t/ in American English
The distribution of the flap allophone [ɾ] of American English, along with the other allophones of /t/,[t h ,t = , ʔ, t] has been accounted for in various formal frameworks by assuming a number of different abstract mechanisms and entities. The desirability or usefulness of these formalisms is not at issue in the present paper. Instead, a computationally explicit model of categorization is used (Skousen 1989, 1992) in order to account for the dis…
Spanish Phonology and Morphology
Unlike most monographs on Spanish phonology and morphology that approach these topics from a structuralist or generativist framework, this volume is written from a less traditional point of view. More specifically, it emphasizes quantitative evidence from sources such as usage-based studies, psycholinguistic experiments, corpus data, and computer simulations. Arguments are presented to demonstrate that these kinds of evidence are crucial for esta…
A Usage-based Approach to Spanish Verbs of 'Becoming
A usage-based analysis of four constructions in Spanish, each with a different verb meaning 'become' used with an animate subject and an adjective, provides evidence for exemplar representations of constructions, with analogy to these representations accounting for productive use. We analyze 423 tokens from spoken and written corpora, which we take to represent a subset of a speaker's experience with these constructions. The analysis, based on to…
Issues in modeling language processing analogically
A comparison of two analogical models
Why quantitative
Disambiguating Spanish Change of State Verbs
A previous corpus-based study suggests that the uses of the verbs llegar a ser, ponerse, volverse, quedarse, convertirse, transformarse, and hacerse are not mutually exclusive. However, the corpus study has several drawbacks. A questionnaire was developed to address some of the problems inherent in the corpus analysis. Spanish speakers were asked to choose between the seven change of state verbs in order to complete a series of sentences appearin…
Spanish diminutive formation without rules or constraints
Spanish diminutive formation is analyzed in terms of analogy, more precisely within the computationally explicit framework of analogical modeling of language (AML; Skousen 1989, 1992). Accordingly, all known diminutives are presumed to be stored in the mental lexicon as completely formed units with associative links to their base forms. 2460 diminutive types were identified in various corpora and served as both the analogical database and the tes…
A Usage-based Approach to Spanish Verbs of 'Becoming
A usage-based analysis of four constructions in Spanish, each with a different verb meaning 'become' used with an animate subject and an adjective, provides evidence for exemplar representations of constructions, with analogy to these representations accounting for productive use. We analyze 423 tokens from spoken and written corpora, which we take to represent a subset of a speaker's experience with these constructions. The analysis, based on to…
Spanish Stress Assignment within the Analogical Modeling of Language
The advent of nonlinear phonology has resulted in an explosion of studies relating to Spanish syllable structure and stress placement, but most of these studies claim to represent linguistic competence and language structure, not actual mechanisms used by speakers in speech production and comprehension. The present study is couched within Skousen's ANALOGICAL MODELING OF LANGUAGE (AML) (1989, 1992, 1995). AML attempts to reflect how speakers dete…
American English Has Goʔ A Loʔ Of Glottal Stops
In word-final, prevocalic position (e.g., it is) there are various possible phonetic realizations of /t/ in American English (e.g., [t], [ʕ], [ʔ]). The present study examines the linguistic and social factors associated with the use of the glottal stop in American English in 1,101 instances of word-final, prevocalic /t/ from the Santa Barbara Corpus. The glottal stop occurred in 24% of the cases. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify …
T-Glottalization in American English
In word-final prevocalic position (e.g., right ankle), there are various possible phonetic realizations of /t/ in American English: [t], [], []. The present study focuses on the linguistic and social factors associated with the use of the glottal stop. Data were gathered by having participants repeat sentences they were presented auditorily (e.g., She twisted her right ankle). The particular pronunciation of /t/ in the presented sentences was mas…
Dialect Identification
This study examines whether two factors, region of origin (i.e., being from either Utah, Western states, or non-Western states) and amount of experience for those not native to Utah (having less than one, more than one but less than five, or over five years living in Utah), influence how well listeners are able to distinguish between Utah and non-Utah speakers and what phonetic characteristics they use to do so. The results suggest that the more …
Analogy and the dual-route model of morphology
Where Are the Moun[ɁƏ]ns in Utah
One stigmatized feature of Utah speech is the “dropped t” in words such as kitten and mountain. We investigated three possible phonetic correlates of “t-dropping” by recording participants from Utah and other Western states reading a document containing several instances of /t/ followed by a syllabic nasal. The first possible correlate, actual deletion of /t/, was uncommon but occurred slightly more often in the mouths of Utahns. The second possi…
Issues in modeling language processing analogically
The Phonetic Context of American English Flapping
The phonetic context in which word-medial flaps occur (in contrast to [th]) in American English is explored. The analysis focuses on stress placement, following phone, and syllabification. In Experiment 1, subjects provided their preference for [th] or [[symbol: see text]] in bisyllabic nonce words. Consistent with previous studies, flaps were preferred before stressless syllables and [th] before stressed syllables, but the following phone also e…
Examination of Manner of Motion Sound Symbolism for English Nonce Verbs
This paper offers cross-experimental verification of a previous study that found that English speakers considered velars, palatals, glides, and high vowels to be sound-symbolic of light and jerky movements. Heavy and smooth movements, by contrast, were associated with affricates, glottals, laterals, and non-high vowels. The present study sought to evaluate these findings through a novel experiment with English speaking subjects, who were asked to…
Spanish verbal inflection
Spanish verbal inflection Four studies of Spanish morphology are examined that seem to support the dual-route model because they demonstrate an asymetry between regular and irregular verbal inflections. In Rodriguez-Fornells et al. (2002), ERPs were measured during a priming study. Regular targets demonstrated an increased positivity between 250 and 450 ms after the presentation of the stimulus, but irregulars did not. However, these findings are…
Flaps and other variants of /t/ in American English
The distribution of the flap allophone [ɾ] of American English, along with the other allophones of /t/,[t h ,t = , ʔ, t] has been accounted for in various formal frameworks by assuming a number of different abstract mechanisms and entities. The desirability or usefulness of these formalisms is not at issue in the present paper. Instead, a computationally explicit model of categorization is used (Skousen 1989, 1992) in order to account for the dis…
Spanish diminutive formation without rules or constraints
Spanish diminutive formation is analyzed in terms of analogy, more precisely within the computationally explicit framework of analogical modeling of language (AML; Skousen 1989, 1992). Accordingly, all known diminutives are presumed to be stored in the mental lexicon as completely formed units with associative links to their base forms. 2460 diminutive types were identified in various corpora and served as both the analogical database and the tes…
The Psychological Relevance of Phonological Generalizations in Spanish
A psycholinguistic experiment aids in determining if the phonological generalizations which appear in the literature on Spanish phonology are psychologically significant for Spanish speakers. The experiment focuses on whether common phonological alternations play a role in native speakers' perceptions of whether two words share a morpheme. The results indicate that they are a significant factor in speakers' perceptions of morphemic relatedness. T…
The psychological status of phonological analyses
This paper casts doubt on the psychological relevance of many phonological analyses. There are four reasons for this: 1) theoretical adequacy does not necessarily imply psychological significance; 2) most approaches are nonempirical in that they are not subject to potential spatiotemporal falsification; 3) phonological analyses are estab lished with little or no recourse to the speakers of the language via experimental psy chology; 4) the limit…
Analogy and the dual-route model of morphology
Spanish Stress Assignment within the Analogical Modeling of Language
The advent of nonlinear phonology has resulted in an explosion of studies relating to Spanish syllable structure and stress placement, but most of these studies claim to represent linguistic competence and language structure, not actual mechanisms used by speakers in speech production and comprehension. The present study is couched within Skousen's ANALOGICAL MODELING OF LANGUAGE (AML) (1989, 1992, 1995). AML attempts to reflect how speakers dete…
A comparison of two analogical models
Why quantitative
Disambiguating Spanish Change of State Verbs
A previous corpus-based study suggests that the uses of the verbs llegar a ser, ponerse, volverse, quedarse, convertirse, transformarse, and hacerse are not mutually exclusive. However, the corpus study has several drawbacks. A questionnaire was developed to address some of the problems inherent in the corpus analysis. Spanish speakers were asked to choose between the seven change of state verbs in order to complete a series of sentences appearin…
Spanish diminutive formation without rules or constraints
Spanish diminutive formation is analyzed in terms of analogy, more precisely within the computationally explicit framework of analogical modeling of language (AML; Skousen 1989, 1992). Accordingly, all known diminutives are presumed to be stored in the mental lexicon as completely formed units with associative links to their base forms. 2460 diminutive types were identified in various corpora and served as both the analogical database and the tes…
Issues in modeling language processing analogically
Spanish Phonology and Morphology
Unlike most monographs on Spanish phonology and morphology that approach these topics from a structuralist or generativist framework, this volume is written from a less traditional point of view. More specifically, it emphasizes quantitative evidence from sources such as usage-based studies, psycholinguistic experiments, corpus data, and computer simulations. Arguments are presented to demonstrate that these kinds of evidence are crucial for esta…
A Usage-based Approach to Spanish Verbs of 'Becoming
A usage-based analysis of four constructions in Spanish, each with a different verb meaning 'become' used with an animate subject and an adjective, provides evidence for exemplar representations of constructions, with analogy to these representations accounting for productive use. We analyze 423 tokens from spoken and written corpora, which we take to represent a subset of a speaker's experience with these constructions. The analysis, based on to…
Flaps and other variants of /t/ in American English
The distribution of the flap allophone [ɾ] of American English, along with the other allophones of /t/,[t h ,t = , ʔ, t] has been accounted for in various formal frameworks by assuming a number of different abstract mechanisms and entities. The desirability or usefulness of these formalisms is not at issue in the present paper. Instead, a computationally explicit model of categorization is used (Skousen 1989, 1992) in order to account for the dis…
El abundante agua fría
According to some Spanish grammarians, including the Royal Spanish Academy, nouns like agua ‘water’, asa ‘handle’, etc., are feminine and take a phonologicallyconditioned allomorph of the definite article (el) that is identical to the masculine article. Our data, both from an experiment and from electronic searches, show that there is considerable fluctuation in the gender of prenominal, but not postnominal, modifiers, with nouns in this group ev…
The Phonetic Context of American English Flapping
The phonetic context in which word-medial flaps occur (in contrast to [th]) in American English is explored. The analysis focuses on stress placement, following phone, and syllabification. In Experiment 1, subjects provided their preference for [th] or [[symbol: see text]] in bisyllabic nonce words. Consistent with previous studies, flaps were preferred before stressless syllables and [th] before stressed syllables, but the following phone also e…
Linguistic Processing is Exemplar-Based
In contrast to rule systems, analogy assumes massive storage of previously experienced linguistic material. Accordingly, linguistic processing involves access to and comparison with this database of stored instances. Computationally explicit models of analogy allow analogical models to be tested empirically. One such model is shown to be quite effective in predicting the gender of Spanish nouns given their phonological makeup, and in mirroring ge…
T-Glottalization in American English
In word-final prevocalic position (e.g., right ankle), there are various possible phonetic realizations of /t/ in American English: [t], [], []. The present study focuses on the linguistic and social factors associated with the use of the glottal stop. Data were gathered by having participants repeat sentences they were presented auditorily (e.g., She twisted her right ankle). The particular pronunciation of /t/ in the presented sentences was mas…
Dialect Identification
This study examines whether two factors, region of origin (i.e., being from either Utah, Western states, or non-Western states) and amount of experience for those not native to Utah (having less than one, more than one but less than five, or over five years living in Utah), influence how well listeners are able to distinguish between Utah and non-Utah speakers and what phonetic characteristics they use to do so. The results suggest that the more …
Spanish verbal inflection
Spanish verbal inflection Four studies of Spanish morphology are examined that seem to support the dual-route model because they demonstrate an asymetry between regular and irregular verbal inflections. In Rodriguez-Fornells et al. (2002), ERPs were measured during a priming study. Regular targets demonstrated an increased positivity between 250 and 450 ms after the presentation of the stimulus, but irregulars did not. However, these findings are…
American English Has Goʔ A Loʔ Of Glottal Stops
In word-final, prevocalic position (e.g., it is) there are various possible phonetic realizations of /t/ in American English (e.g., [t], [ʕ], [ʔ]). The present study examines the linguistic and social factors associated with the use of the glottal stop in American English in 1,101 instances of word-final, prevocalic /t/ from the Santa Barbara Corpus. The glottal stop occurred in 24% of the cases. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify …
Variation in the use of deber and deber de in written and oral materials from Latin America and Spain
deber deber de Deber Juan debe presentarse al trabajo mañana deber de Juan debe de tener unos 30 años deber de deber deber (de) deber deber de deber de deber deber de deber de de -n -s deber de
Where Are the Moun[ɁƏ]ns in Utah
One stigmatized feature of Utah speech is the “dropped t” in words such as kitten and mountain. We investigated three possible phonetic correlates of “t-dropping” by recording participants from Utah and other Western states reading a document containing several instances of /t/ followed by a syllabic nasal. The first possible correlate, actual deletion of /t/, was uncommon but occurred slightly more often in the mouths of Utahns. The second possi…
An experimental approach to ambisyllabicity in English
The factors that influence English speakers to classify a consonant as ambisyllabic are explored in 581 bisyllabic words. The /b/ in habit, for example, was considered ambisyllabic when a participant chose hab as the first part of the word and bit as the second. Geminate spelling was found to interact with social variables; older participants and more educated speakers provided more ambisyllabic responses. The influence of word-level phonotactics…
Dialectal variation in Spanish diminutives
While the diminutive form of most Spanish words is invariant, a great deal of variation is found in bisyllabic words that either contain /je, we/ in the stem (e. g., viejo ‘old’ > viejito/viejecito, pueblo ‘town’ > pueblecito/pueblito ), or that end in /e/ (e. g., dulce ‘sweet’ > dulcecito/dulcito ), or that end in /jo, ja/ (e. g., rubio ‘blonde’ > rubiecito/rubito ). Data from the Corpus del Español indicate that in many cases both diminutive fo…
In Search of Cowboy B
This article presents acoustic evidence for the existence of a bilabial implosive, [ƃ], in one variety of U.S. English. One articulatory observation is that vocal chord vibration of the English bilabial stop, /b/, can only be maintained for a maximum of about 82 ms. Increasing the vibration beyond this threshold is only possible by increasing the size of the vocal cavity, which in turn is often enabled by lowering the glottis, a gesture character…
Examination of Manner of Motion Sound Symbolism for English Nonce Verbs
This paper offers cross-experimental verification of a previous study that found that English speakers considered velars, palatals, glides, and high vowels to be sound-symbolic of light and jerky movements. Heavy and smooth movements, by contrast, were associated with affricates, glottals, laterals, and non-high vowels. The present study sought to evaluate these findings through a novel experiment with English speaking subjects, who were asked to…
Linguistics (24 obras) · Psychology (19 obras) · Philosophy (18 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (18 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 obras) · Mathematics (7 obras) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (7 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 obras) · Analogy (6 obras)