Nanna Haug Hilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nanna Haug Hilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nanna Haug |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilton |
| SIGNATURE | HILTON N H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0141-3539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Salience is in the brain of the beholder
A recent paper by Boswijk, Loerts & Hilton (Boswijk et al., 2020) in this journal discusses how technological advances allow us to explore the cognitive processing of so-called salient linguistic features, and how this could provide us with quantifiable measures of ‘salience’. The paper concludes that, although promising, the used measure of pupil dilation seems to be limited as a measure for linguistic salience, and therefore refers future resea…
Is Swedish more beautiful than Danish? Matched guise investigations with unknown languages
Are some languages universally seen as beautiful? And if so, what are the linguistic traits that make some languages sound more pleasing than others? This paper addresses these two questions. We do so with results from two listener experiments that use speech samples from a bilingual Danish–Swedish speaker in a matched guise test, where the listeners are ‘previously unexposed’ students from central China. Our results indicate that listeners from …
Stimmen
This paper presents the project Stimmen fan Fryslân ‘Voices of Fryslân’. The project relies on a smartphone application developed to involve local communities in the creation of speech corpora, particularly of lesser used languages. This paper lays out the scientific and societal context of the project, showcases the smartphone application and gives an overview of the results from the project that attracted more than 15,000 users. Some key method…
Salience is in the eye of the beholder
‘Salience’ is a term frequently used in linguistics but an exact definition for the concept is lacking. Recent technological advances which allow us to explore the cognitive processing of so-called salient linguistic features could provide us with quantifiable measures of ‘salience’, and lead to a further understanding of the concept and its relationship to language acquisition and change. In this paper we measure pupil dilation with the assumpti…
Using social media to measure language use
Investigations of language use in multilingual regions are traditionally done through the usage of retrospective questionnaires, either distributed on paper, or digitally. The aim of the present study was to test a new method of measuring language choice and use: by using social media to contact individuals several times a day and ask them what language(s) they are using, how, and with whom. It was investigated whether this method could provide r…
Constant effects and the independence of variants in controlled judgment data
This article proposes that Kroch’s (1989) Constant Rate Hypothesis – the generalization that contextual effects tend to be stable in processes of diachronic variation in production data – be extended to synchronic variation in controlled judgment data. Two recent, large-sample judgment experiments are discussed suggesting that shared contextual effects across speakers in acceptability judgments can be used to infer a single abstract source for pa…
Introduction
Rough estimates of how many languages are spoken in the world today usually range between 6500 and 7000. The 2013 edition of the Ethnologue lists even 7106 living languages (Lewis et al. 2013). If speakers of different languages communicate with each other, they have to find a way of communicating across a linguistic border, and typologically speaking, with more than 7000 languages, there are currently more than 25 million linguistic borders in t…
Swedish is beautiful, Danish is ugly? Investigating the link between language attitudes and spoken word recognition
This paper investigates the hypothesis that attitudes towards a linguistic variety and intelligibility of that variety are linked. This is done by eliciting language attitudes and word recognition scores in 154 Danish and Swedish schoolchildren and adolescents between 7 and 16 years. Language attitudes towards the neighboring language are elicited by means of a matched-guise experiment while word recognition is tested by auditorily presenting the…
The influence of non-native morphosyntax on the intelligibility of a closely related language
New horizons in sociophonetic variation and change
Syllable reduction and articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
This investigation compares articulation rates of phonological and phonetic syllables in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish to investigate differences in degrees of syllable deletion (reduction) among these three languages. For the investigation two sets of data are used: one consisting of recorded speech from radio news and another consisting of sentences read aloud. The results of the comparative investigation show that in both data sets Danish exhi…
Swedish is beautiful, Danish is ugly? Investigating the link between language attitudes and spoken word recognition
This paper investigates the hypothesis that attitudes towards a linguistic variety and intelligibility of that variety are linked. This is done by eliciting language attitudes and word recognition scores in 154 Danish and Swedish schoolchildren and adolescents between 7 and 16 years. Language attitudes towards the neighboring language are elicited by means of a matched-guise experiment while word recognition is tested by auditorily presenting the…
Constant effects and the independence of variants in controlled judgment data
This article proposes that Kroch’s (1989) Constant Rate Hypothesis – the generalization that contextual effects tend to be stable in processes of diachronic variation in production data – be extended to synchronic variation in controlled judgment data. Two recent, large-sample judgment experiments are discussed suggesting that shared contextual effects across speakers in acceptability judgments can be used to infer a single abstract source for pa…
The influence of non-native morphosyntax on the intelligibility of a closely related language
Syllable reduction and articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
This investigation compares articulation rates of phonological and phonetic syllables in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish to investigate differences in degrees of syllable deletion (reduction) among these three languages. For the investigation two sets of data are used: one consisting of recorded speech from radio news and another consisting of sentences read aloud. The results of the comparative investigation show that in both data sets Danish exhi…
New horizons in sociophonetic variation and change
The influence of non-native morphosyntax on the intelligibility of a closely related language
Introduction
Rough estimates of how many languages are spoken in the world today usually range between 6500 and 7000. The 2013 edition of the Ethnologue lists even 7106 living languages (Lewis et al. 2013). If speakers of different languages communicate with each other, they have to find a way of communicating across a linguistic border, and typologically speaking, with more than 7000 languages, there are currently more than 25 million linguistic borders in t…
Swedish is beautiful, Danish is ugly? Investigating the link between language attitudes and spoken word recognition
This paper investigates the hypothesis that attitudes towards a linguistic variety and intelligibility of that variety are linked. This is done by eliciting language attitudes and word recognition scores in 154 Danish and Swedish schoolchildren and adolescents between 7 and 16 years. Language attitudes towards the neighboring language are elicited by means of a matched-guise experiment while word recognition is tested by auditorily presenting the…
Using social media to measure language use
Investigations of language use in multilingual regions are traditionally done through the usage of retrospective questionnaires, either distributed on paper, or digitally. The aim of the present study was to test a new method of measuring language choice and use: by using social media to contact individuals several times a day and ask them what language(s) they are using, how, and with whom. It was investigated whether this method could provide r…
Constant effects and the independence of variants in controlled judgment data
This article proposes that Kroch’s (1989) Constant Rate Hypothesis – the generalization that contextual effects tend to be stable in processes of diachronic variation in production data – be extended to synchronic variation in controlled judgment data. Two recent, large-sample judgment experiments are discussed suggesting that shared contextual effects across speakers in acceptability judgments can be used to infer a single abstract source for pa…
Salience is in the eye of the beholder
‘Salience’ is a term frequently used in linguistics but an exact definition for the concept is lacking. Recent technological advances which allow us to explore the cognitive processing of so-called salient linguistic features could provide us with quantifiable measures of ‘salience’, and lead to a further understanding of the concept and its relationship to language acquisition and change. In this paper we measure pupil dilation with the assumpti…
Stimmen
This paper presents the project Stimmen fan Fryslân ‘Voices of Fryslân’. The project relies on a smartphone application developed to involve local communities in the creation of speech corpora, particularly of lesser used languages. This paper lays out the scientific and societal context of the project, showcases the smartphone application and gives an overview of the results from the project that attracted more than 15,000 users. Some key method…
Salience is in the brain of the beholder
A recent paper by Boswijk, Loerts & Hilton (Boswijk et al., 2020) in this journal discusses how technological advances allow us to explore the cognitive processing of so-called salient linguistic features, and how this could provide us with quantifiable measures of ‘salience’. The paper concludes that, although promising, the used measure of pupil dilation seems to be limited as a measure for linguistic salience, and therefore refers future resea…
Is Swedish more beautiful than Danish? Matched guise investigations with unknown languages
Are some languages universally seen as beautiful? And if so, what are the linguistic traits that make some languages sound more pleasing than others? This paper addresses these two questions. We do so with results from two listener experiments that use speech samples from a bilingual Danish–Swedish speaker in a matched guise test, where the listeners are ‘previously unexposed’ students from central China. Our results indicate that listeners from …
Linguistics (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Danish (3 works)