Irina A Shport
Biographic Data
| ID | 1719372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irina A Shport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irina A |
| FAMILY NAME | Shport |
| SIGNATURE | SHPORT I A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2665-7951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kyoo, This Word Sounds Weird
The interjection kyoo/kaw is used in the English and French of Cajun heritage speakers in Louisiana to express surprise and has not been previously documented. Anecdotally, Cajuns and non-Cajuns alike comment that it sounds “weird,” as if the word is “not English.” A survey confirms that the interjection is perceived as atypical sounding when compared to mainstream English words, even more so for the palatalized pronunciation variant (kyoo) than …
Perception of Vietnamese back vowels contrasting in rounding by English listeners
Lexical access in English-Spanish bilinguals
Does early onset age of language learning in an informal setting always have a long-term advantage? We compared lexical access in adult heritage speakers of Spanish and late learners of Spanish in two word-production tasks, while also considering the speakers’ oral proficiency in their non-dominant language. In all speakers, word recall in the picture-naming task was less accurate and slower than in the translation task. Heritage speakers and lat…
Lexical and phrasal prominence patterns in school-aged children's speech
This study investigated the integration of word- and phrase-level prominences in speech produced by twenty-five school-aged children (6;2 to 7;3) and twenty-five adults. Participants produced disyllabic number words in a straight count condition and in two phrasal conditions, namely, a stress clash and non-clash phrasal context. Duration and amplitude measures of syllable rhymes were used to assess the realization of lexical stress, and fundament…
Word-level prosody in Balsas Nahuatl
Word-level prosody in Balsas Nahuatl
Lexical and phrasal prominence patterns in school-aged children's speech
This study investigated the integration of word- and phrase-level prominences in speech produced by twenty-five school-aged children (6;2 to 7;3) and twenty-five adults. Participants produced disyllabic number words in a straight count condition and in two phrasal conditions, namely, a stress clash and non-clash phrasal context. Duration and amplitude measures of syllable rhymes were used to assess the realization of lexical stress, and fundament…
Lexical access in English-Spanish bilinguals
Does early onset age of language learning in an informal setting always have a long-term advantage? We compared lexical access in adult heritage speakers of Spanish and late learners of Spanish in two word-production tasks, while also considering the speakers’ oral proficiency in their non-dominant language. In all speakers, word recall in the picture-naming task was less accurate and slower than in the translation task. Heritage speakers and lat…
Perception of Vietnamese back vowels contrasting in rounding by English listeners
Kyoo, This Word Sounds Weird
The interjection kyoo/kaw is used in the English and French of Cajun heritage speakers in Louisiana to express surprise and has not been previously documented. Anecdotally, Cajuns and non-Cajuns alike comment that it sounds “weird,” as if the word is “not English.” A survey confirms that the interjection is perceived as atypical sounding when compared to mainstream English words, even more so for the palatalized pronunciation variant (kyoo) than …
Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Audiology (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (2 works)