Laura Spinu
Biographic Data
| ID | 233510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Spinu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Spinu |
| SIGNATURE | SPINU L |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York—Kingsborough Community College, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0724-6516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The acoustic manifestation of stress and focus in Romanian
The acoustic properties of two types of prosodic prominence, stress and focus at the lexical and sentence levels, respectively, are examined in Romanian. Real three-syllable words were produced by 9 native speakers in two sentential contexts: with focus on the target word (focus context) and with focus on a word later in the sentence (non-focus context). The position of stress was systematically varied, so it appeared on each of the three syllabl…
What does your accent say about you? The perception of Cuban and Peninsular Spanish varieties by native and non-native speakers of Spanish
Individuals can make judgments on a person's personality and socioeconomic status in as little as 30 s after hearing their voice. This study investigates the perceptions of Cuban and Peninsular Spanish varieties by native Cuban and Peninsular Spanish speakers, second language (L2) Spanish learners, and monolingual English speakers. Specifically, it analyzes whether (i) these speakers differ in their ability to recognize these varieties, and (ii) …
Articulatory Characteristics of Secondary Palatalization in Romanian Fricatives
The production of fricatives involves the complex interaction of articulatory constraints resulting from the formation of the appropriate oral constriction, the control of airflow through the constriction so as to achieve frication and, in the case of voiced fricatives, the maintenance of glottal oscillation by attending to transglottal pressure. To better understand this mechanism in a relatively understudied language, we explore the articulator…
Serial memory mechanisms in monolingual and bilingual speakers
Aims and objectives: Recent findings suggest enhanced phonetic and phonological learning ability in bilinguals compared with monolinguals. While other cognitive differences between these two groups have been identified in the past, the most frequently investigated mechanism potentially underlying them has been executive function. When considering phonetic and phonological learning, however, we are faced with greater involvement of sensorimotor me…
Exploring the front fricative contrast in Greek: A study of acoustic variability based on cepstral coefficients
In the current study, we explore the factors underlying the well-known difficulty in acoustic classification of front nonsibilant fricatives (Maniwa, Jongman & Wade 2009, McMurray & Jongman 2011) by applying a novel classification method to the production of Greek speakers. The Greek fricative inventory [f v θ ð s z ç ʝ x ɣ] includes voiced and voiceless segments from five distinct places of articulation. Our corpus contains all of the Greek fric…
Is there a bilingual advantage in phonetic and phonological acquisition? The initial learning of word-final coronal stop realization in a novel accent of English
Research question: We address the question of whether the cognitive advantage of the bilingual mind, already demonstrated in the case of auditory processing or novel word acquisition, also applies to other linguistic domains, specifically to phonetic and phonological learning. Design: We compare the performance of 17 monolinguals and 25 bilinguals from Canada in a production experiment with two tasks: imitation and spontaneous reproduction of a n…
A comparison of cepstral coefficients and spectral moments in the classification of Romanian fricatives
Palatalization in Romanian-Acoustic properties and perception
Palatalization in Romanian-Acoustic properties and perception
A comparison of cepstral coefficients and spectral moments in the classification of Romanian fricatives
Is there a bilingual advantage in phonetic and phonological acquisition? The initial learning of word-final coronal stop realization in a novel accent of English
Research question: We address the question of whether the cognitive advantage of the bilingual mind, already demonstrated in the case of auditory processing or novel word acquisition, also applies to other linguistic domains, specifically to phonetic and phonological learning. Design: We compare the performance of 17 monolinguals and 25 bilinguals from Canada in a production experiment with two tasks: imitation and spontaneous reproduction of a n…
Exploring the front fricative contrast in Greek: A study of acoustic variability based on cepstral coefficients
In the current study, we explore the factors underlying the well-known difficulty in acoustic classification of front nonsibilant fricatives (Maniwa, Jongman & Wade 2009, McMurray & Jongman 2011) by applying a novel classification method to the production of Greek speakers. The Greek fricative inventory [f v θ ð s z ç ʝ x ɣ] includes voiced and voiceless segments from five distinct places of articulation. Our corpus contains all of the Greek fric…
Serial memory mechanisms in monolingual and bilingual speakers
Aims and objectives: Recent findings suggest enhanced phonetic and phonological learning ability in bilinguals compared with monolinguals. While other cognitive differences between these two groups have been identified in the past, the most frequently investigated mechanism potentially underlying them has been executive function. When considering phonetic and phonological learning, however, we are faced with greater involvement of sensorimotor me…
Articulatory Characteristics of Secondary Palatalization in Romanian Fricatives
The production of fricatives involves the complex interaction of articulatory constraints resulting from the formation of the appropriate oral constriction, the control of airflow through the constriction so as to achieve frication and, in the case of voiced fricatives, the maintenance of glottal oscillation by attending to transglottal pressure. To better understand this mechanism in a relatively understudied language, we explore the articulator…
What does your accent say about you? The perception of Cuban and Peninsular Spanish varieties by native and non-native speakers of Spanish
Individuals can make judgments on a person's personality and socioeconomic status in as little as 30 s after hearing their voice. This study investigates the perceptions of Cuban and Peninsular Spanish varieties by native Cuban and Peninsular Spanish speakers, second language (L2) Spanish learners, and monolingual English speakers. Specifically, it analyzes whether (i) these speakers differ in their ability to recognize these varieties, and (ii) …
The acoustic manifestation of stress and focus in Romanian
The acoustic properties of two types of prosodic prominence, stress and focus at the lexical and sentence levels, respectively, are examined in Romanian. Real three-syllable words were produced by 9 native speakers in two sentential contexts: with focus on the target word (focus context) and with focus on a word later in the sentence (non-focus context). The position of stress was systematically varied, so it appeared on each of the three syllabl…
Linguistics (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Romanian (4 works) · Speech recognition (4 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Place of articulation (3 works)