Jonathan Harrington
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Harrington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrington |
| SIGNATURE | HARRINGTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9035-0949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Phonetic development in late childhood: Longitudinal evidence from Gheg-speaking children
This study is concerned with Albanian children speaking a nonstandard dialect who learn Standard Albanian (SA) in primary school. Our main research question is whether the phonetic characteristics of these children's first dialect are influenced by their learning of SA. We followed longitudinally 48 children in 1st, 2nd, and 5th grades (24 girls, 24 boys, 6-11 years old), some of whom grew up in a village, the others in a city. A picture-naming t…
Vowel Nasalization and The Path to Sound Change: An Mri Study of American and Southern British English /nt, nd
A central task in sound change research is to account for the emergence of new phonological categories from patterns of synchronic phonetic variation. To this end, a comparison was made of two English dialects differing in their phonologization of coarticulatory vowel nasalization using real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the velum and tongue and their synchronization with the glottal signal. This was done for coda vowel-nasal (VN) sequences …
The physiological basis of the phonologization of vowel nasalization: A real-time MRI analysis of American and Southern British English
The diachronic change by which coarticulatory nasalization increases in VN (vowel-nasal) sequences has been modelled as an earlier alignment of the velum combined with oral gesture weakening of N. The model was tested by comparing American (USE) and Standard Southern British English (BRE) based on the assumption that this diachronic change is more advanced in USE. Real-time MRI data was collected from 16 USE and 27 BRE adult speakers producing mo…
Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air by Afeefah Khazi-Syed et al
Reviewed by: Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air by Afeefah Khazi-Syed et al. Jonathan Harrington AFEEFAH KHAZI-SYED, ALEENA SHABBIR, AYSE GUVENILIR, MAISHA M. PROME, MARIAM DOGAR & MARWA ABDULHAI Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air Rockville, Maryland. Beltway Editions. 2022. 191 pages. "OUR JOURNEY BEGAN with a simple challenge among college friends. One week. One poem. One story to tell." This was the task that six Muslim women, STEM (sc…
Individual variation and the coarticulatory path to sound change: Agent-based modeling of /str/ in English and Italian
This study is concerned with sound change in single populations. Sources differ as to whether such sound changes are attributed to the accumulation of coarticulatory variation, i.e. shared tendencies, or whether idiosyncratic variation is necessary to shift population norms. Using agent-based modeling, this study compares effects of interaction amongst members of single populations with (English-speaking) and without (Italian-speaking) coarticula…
Phonetic change over the career: A case study
This study is concerned with phonetic flexibility in adulthood. Through a longitudinal analysis of the speech of the public French speaker Michaëlle Jean, we explore the relationship between an individual’s phonetic characteristics and career path. We carried out an acoustic analysis of the contextual tense-lax split of the high vowels /i y u/, a phonetic feature of Quebec French that is not found in other French-speaking areas. Sixty-two recordi…
Blue Window / Ventana Azul by Indran Amirthanayagam
Reviewed by: Blue Window / Ventana Azul by Indran Amirthanayagam Jonathan Harrington Indran Amirthanayagam Blue Window / Ventana Azul Trans. Jennifer Rathbun. New Orleans. Diálogos Books. 2021. 227 pages. WITH ALMOST NO subject matter being taboo in postmodern poetry, ironically the oldest subject of all is, for most contemporary poets, strictly off-limits. That subject is love. It actually takes courage to publish [End Page 61] a book of love po…
Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German: Supplementary material
The influence of Standard German on the vowels and diphthongs of West Central Bavarian
The spoken accent of children is strongly influenced by those of their peers but how rapidly do they adapt to sound changes in progress? We addressed this issue in an acoustic analysis of child and adult vowels of West Central Bavarian (WCB) that may be subject to an increasing influence by the Standard German (SG) variety. The study was a combination of longitudinal and apparent-time analyses: re-recordings from 20 WCB children in their first, s…
Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German
Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might promote sound change involving the development of contrastive vowel nasality. The results suggest that, in comparison to when a nasal consonant precedes a voiced obstruent, the velum gesture associated with a nasal consonant preceding a voiceless obstruent undergoes gestu…
A dynamic model of the change from pre- to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish
In Andalusian Spanish, there is a well-documented sound change in which pre- has become post-aspiration in sequences of /s/ followed by voiceless stops. Here we investigate acoustically its synchronic basis across two age groups and two different regions of Andalusia that differ in the degree to which the sound change has advanced. For this purpose, Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) was applied to the probability of voicing and to th…
China, Global Ecopolitics and Antarctic Governance: Converging Paths
U/-Fronting and Agent-Based Modeling: The relationship between the origin and spread of sound change
This study is concerned with whether an asymmetric phonetic overlap between speaker groups contributes to the directional spread of sound change. An acoustic analysis of speakers of Southern British English showed that younger speakers’ fronted /u/ was probabilistically closer to that of older speakers’ retracted /u/ distributions than the other way around. Agent-based modeling based on the same data showed an asymmetric shift of older toward you…
The phonetic origins of /s/-retraction: Acoustic and perceptual evidence from Australian English
The articulatory and acoustic characteristics of Polish sibilants and their consequences for diachronic change
The study is concerned with the relative synchronic stability of three contrastive sibilant fricatives /sʂ ɕ/ in Polish. Tongue movement data were collected from nine first-language Polish speakers producing symmetrical real and non-word CVCV sequences in three vowel contexts. A Gaussian model was used to classify the sibilants from spectral information in the noise and from formant frequencies at vowel onset. The physiological analysis showed an…
Synchronic and diachronic factors in the change from pre-aspiration to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish
The Relationship between the Perception and Production of Coarticulation during a Sound Change in Progress
The present study is concerned with lax /ʊ/-fronting in Standard British English and in particular with whether this sound change in progress can be attributed to a waning of the perceptual compensation for the coarticulatory effects of context. Younger and older speakers produced various monosyllables in which /ʊ/ occurred in different symmetrical consonantal contexts. The same speakers participated in a forced-choice perception experiment in wh…
The physiological, acoustic, and perceptual basis of high back vowel fronting: Evidence from German tense and lax vowels
The contributions of the lips and the tongue to the diachronic fronting of high back vowels in Standard Southern British English
Recent acoustic studies have provided evidence that /u/ (goose) and /ʊ/ (foot) have fronted in the standard accent of England in the last fifty years, but what is less clear is whether this fronting is due entirely to a repositioning of the tongue or whether it has been accompanied by an unrounding of the lips. Four experiments were carried out to shed light on this issue. An acoustic study of anticipatory coarticulation in /s/ in the first of th…
The implications for speech perception of incomplete neutralization of final devoicing in German
Owl / Xooch' / El búho
Inaddition to eight books, Jonathan Harrington has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction ineverything from the New York Times to the Texas Review. He received an MFA from the University of IowaWriters' Workshop in 1983. In 1989 he edited New Visions: Fiction by Florida Writers. Tropical Son appeared monthly in Metro Magazine and won the coveted Gold "Charlie" Award forbest column of the year from the Florida Magazine Association in 1990. His …
Kite / Baaxal Tuuch'bil Ju'un / Papalote
El recuerdo es un papalote. Poco a poco le sueltas, disfrutas su vuelo. En lo m?s alto se rompe el hilo de tu memoria y te sientas a presenciar corno lo posee la distancia. Briceida Cuevas Cob was born in 1969 in Tepakan, Calkim, in the province of Campeche on the Yucatan Peninsula. She writes in both Yucatec Maya and Spanish languages. Her poetry has been published in several literary magazines and newspapers in Quitana Roo, Campeche, Yucatan, a…
Compensation for coarticulation, /u/-fronting, and sound change in standard southern British: An acoustic and perceptual study
The aim of the study was to establish whether /u/-fronting, a sound change in progress in standard southern British, could be linked synchronically to the fronting effects of a preceding anterior consonant both in speech production and speech perception. For the production study, which consisted of acoustic analyses of isolated monosyllables produced by two different age groups, it was shown for younger speakers that /u/ was phonetically fronted …
An acoustic analysis of 'happy-tensing' in the Queen's Christmas broadcasts
Nonwords: The ARC Nonword Database
The authors present a model of the phonotactic and orthographic constraints of Australian and Standard Southern British English monosyllables. This model is used as the basis for a web-based psycholinguistic resource, the ARC Nonword Database, which contains 358,534 monosyllabic nonwords—48,534 pseudohomophones and 310,000 non-pseudohomophonic nonwords. Items can be selected from the ARC Nonword Database on the basis of a wide variety of properti…
An acoustic phonetic study of broad, general, and cultivated Australian English vowels
The focus of this paper is an acoustic analysis of citation‐form monophthongs and diphthongs produced by a large number of male and female talkers whose accents vary from broad to general to cultivated and who were recorded as part of the Australian National Database of Spoken Language (ANDOSL). Following an initial auditory categorisation of the talkers’ accents, the formants frequencies were calculated and the data were labelled for vowel targe…
Monophthongal vowel changes in Received Pronunciation: An acoustic analysis of the Queen's Christmas broadcasts
In this paper we analyse the extent to which an adult's vowel space is affected by vowel changes to the community using a database of nine Christmas broadcasts made by Queen Elizabeth II spanning three time periods (the 1950's; the late 1960's/early 70's; the 1980's). An analysis of the monophthongal formant space showed that the first formant frequency was generally higher for open vowels, and lower for mid-high vowels in the 1960's and 1980's d…
Coarticulation and the accented/unaccented distinction: Evidence From Jaw Movement Data
An acoustic analysis of 'happy-tensing' in the Queen's Christmas broadcasts
An acoustic comparison between New Zealand and Australian English vowels
This study presents an acoustic comparison between New Zealand English (NZE) and Australian English (AE) citation‐form monophthongs and diphthongs. Formant frequencies were calculated and the data were labelled for vowel target position. Four main kinds of analysis were carried out: F1/F2 formant plots of monophthongs, onglides in vowels exemplified by HEED and WHO'D, formant trajectories of rising diphthongs, and formant trajectories of falling …
The Relationship between the Perception and Production of Coarticulation during a Sound Change in Progress
The present study is concerned with lax /ʊ/-fronting in Standard British English and in particular with whether this sound change in progress can be attributed to a waning of the perceptual compensation for the coarticulatory effects of context. Younger and older speakers produced various monosyllables in which /ʊ/ occurred in different symmetrical consonantal contexts. The same speakers participated in a forced-choice perception experiment in wh…
The implications for speech perception of incomplete neutralization of final devoicing in German
Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German
Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might promote sound change involving the development of contrastive vowel nasality. The results suggest that, in comparison to when a nasal consonant precedes a voiced obstruent, the velum gesture associated with a nasal consonant preceding a voiceless obstruent undergoes gestu…
A dynamic model of the change from pre- to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish
In Andalusian Spanish, there is a well-documented sound change in which pre- has become post-aspiration in sequences of /s/ followed by voiceless stops. Here we investigate acoustically its synchronic basis across two age groups and two different regions of Andalusia that differ in the degree to which the sound change has advanced. For this purpose, Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) was applied to the probability of voicing and to th…
Synchronic and diachronic factors in the change from pre-aspiration to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish
Acoustic evidence for vowel change in New Zealand English
This study provides acoustic evidence that in the last 50 years New Zealand English (NZE) has undergone a substantial vowel shift. Two sets of data are studied: the Otago corpus, recorded in 1995, and the Mobile Unit corpus, recorded in 1948. Both corpora have male and female speakers. The corpora were labeled, accented vowels were extracted, and formant values were calculated. The results of the formant analysis from the two corpora are contrast…
The physiological, acoustic, and perceptual basis of high back vowel fronting: Evidence from German tense and lax vowels
The contributions of the lips and the tongue to the diachronic fronting of high back vowels in Standard Southern British English
Recent acoustic studies have provided evidence that /u/ (goose) and /ʊ/ (foot) have fronted in the standard accent of England in the last fifty years, but what is less clear is whether this fronting is due entirely to a repositioning of the tongue or whether it has been accompanied by an unrounding of the lips. Four experiments were carried out to shed light on this issue. An acoustic study of anticipatory coarticulation in /s/ in the first of th…
U/-Fronting and Agent-Based Modeling: The relationship between the origin and spread of sound change
This study is concerned with whether an asymmetric phonetic overlap between speaker groups contributes to the directional spread of sound change. An acoustic analysis of speakers of Southern British English showed that younger speakers’ fronted /u/ was probabilistically closer to that of older speakers’ retracted /u/ distributions than the other way around. Agent-based modeling based on the same data showed an asymmetric shift of older toward you…
The articulatory and acoustic characteristics of Polish sibilants and their consequences for diachronic change
The study is concerned with the relative synchronic stability of three contrastive sibilant fricatives /sʂ ɕ/ in Polish. Tongue movement data were collected from nine first-language Polish speakers producing symmetrical real and non-word CVCV sequences in three vowel contexts. A Gaussian model was used to classify the sibilants from spectral information in the noise and from formant frequencies at vowel onset. The physiological analysis showed an…
Dynamic and Target Theories of Vowel Classification: Evidence from Monophthongs and Diphthongs in Australian English
Recent studies on the perception of speech have suggested that vowel identification depends on dynamic cues, rather than a single ‘static’ spectral slice at the vowel midpoint. The experiments reported in this paper seek both to test the extent to which vowel recognition depends on dynamic information, and to identify the nature of the dynamic cues on which such recognition might depend. Gaussian classification techniques, as well as different ki…
The physiological basis of the phonologization of vowel nasalization: A real-time MRI analysis of American and Southern British English
The diachronic change by which coarticulatory nasalization increases in VN (vowel-nasal) sequences has been modelled as an earlier alignment of the velum combined with oral gesture weakening of N. The model was tested by comparing American (USE) and Standard Southern British English (BRE) based on the assumption that this diachronic change is more advanced in USE. Real-time MRI data was collected from 16 USE and 27 BRE adult speakers producing mo…
Techniques in Speech Acoustics
Preface. Vowel and Consonant Transcriptions. Contents of the CD-Rom. 1. The Scope of Speech Acoustics. 2. The Physics of Speech. 3. The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production. 4. Segmental and Prosodic Cues. 5. Time-Domain Analysis. 6. Frequency-Domain Analysis. 7. Digital Formant Synthesis. 8. Linear Prediction of Speech. 9. Classification of Speech Data. References
China, Global Ecopolitics and Antarctic Governance: Converging Paths
The phonetic origins of /s/-retraction: Acoustic and perceptual evidence from Australian English
Dynamic and Target Theories of Vowel Classification: Evidence from Monophthongs and Diphthongs in Australian English
Recent studies on the perception of speech have suggested that vowel identification depends on dynamic cues, rather than a single ‘static’ spectral slice at the vowel midpoint. The experiments reported in this paper seek both to test the extent to which vowel recognition depends on dynamic information, and to identify the nature of the dynamic cues on which such recognition might depend. Gaussian classification techniques, as well as different ki…
Coarticulation and the accented/unaccented distinction: Evidence From Jaw Movement Data
An acoustic phonetic study of broad, general, and cultivated Australian English vowels
The focus of this paper is an acoustic analysis of citation‐form monophthongs and diphthongs produced by a large number of male and female talkers whose accents vary from broad to general to cultivated and who were recorded as part of the Australian National Database of Spoken Language (ANDOSL). Following an initial auditory categorisation of the talkers’ accents, the formants frequencies were calculated and the data were labelled for vowel targe…
An acoustic comparison between New Zealand and Australian English vowels
This study presents an acoustic comparison between New Zealand English (NZE) and Australian English (AE) citation‐form monophthongs and diphthongs. Formant frequencies were calculated and the data were labelled for vowel target position. Four main kinds of analysis were carried out: F1/F2 formant plots of monophthongs, onglides in vowels exemplified by HEED and WHO'D, formant trajectories of rising diphthongs, and formant trajectories of falling …
Acoustic evidence for vowel change in New Zealand English
This study provides acoustic evidence that in the last 50 years New Zealand English (NZE) has undergone a substantial vowel shift. Two sets of data are studied: the Otago corpus, recorded in 1995, and the Mobile Unit corpus, recorded in 1948. Both corpora have male and female speakers. The corpora were labeled, accented vowels were extracted, and formant values were calculated. The results of the formant analysis from the two corpora are contrast…
Techniques in Speech Acoustics
Preface. Vowel and Consonant Transcriptions. Contents of the CD-Rom. 1. The Scope of Speech Acoustics. 2. The Physics of Speech. 3. The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production. 4. Segmental and Prosodic Cues. 5. Time-Domain Analysis. 6. Frequency-Domain Analysis. 7. Digital Formant Synthesis. 8. Linear Prediction of Speech. 9. Classification of Speech Data. References
Monophthongal vowel changes in Received Pronunciation: An acoustic analysis of the Queen's Christmas broadcasts
In this paper we analyse the extent to which an adult's vowel space is affected by vowel changes to the community using a database of nine Christmas broadcasts made by Queen Elizabeth II spanning three time periods (the 1950's; the late 1960's/early 70's; the 1980's). An analysis of the monophthongal formant space showed that the first formant frequency was generally higher for open vowels, and lower for mid-high vowels in the 1960's and 1980's d…
Bridging the “Digital Divide”
(2001). Bridging the “Digital Divide”. Problems of Post-Communism: Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 65-65
Nonwords: The ARC Nonword Database
The authors present a model of the phonotactic and orthographic constraints of Australian and Standard Southern British English monosyllables. This model is used as the basis for a web-based psycholinguistic resource, the ARC Nonword Database, which contains 358,534 monosyllabic nonwords—48,534 pseudohomophones and 310,000 non-pseudohomophonic nonwords. Items can be selected from the ARC Nonword Database on the basis of a wide variety of properti…
An acoustic analysis of 'happy-tensing' in the Queen's Christmas broadcasts
Compensation for coarticulation, /u/-fronting, and sound change in standard southern British: An acoustic and perceptual study
The aim of the study was to establish whether /u/-fronting, a sound change in progress in standard southern British, could be linked synchronically to the fronting effects of a preceding anterior consonant both in speech production and speech perception. For the production study, which consisted of acoustic analyses of isolated monosyllables produced by two different age groups, it was shown for younger speakers that /u/ was phonetically fronted …
The implications for speech perception of incomplete neutralization of final devoicing in German
Owl / Xooch' / El búho
Inaddition to eight books, Jonathan Harrington has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction ineverything from the New York Times to the Texas Review. He received an MFA from the University of IowaWriters' Workshop in 1983. In 1989 he edited New Visions: Fiction by Florida Writers. Tropical Son appeared monthly in Metro Magazine and won the coveted Gold "Charlie" Award forbest column of the year from the Florida Magazine Association in 1990. His …
Kite / Baaxal Tuuch'bil Ju'un / Papalote
El recuerdo es un papalote. Poco a poco le sueltas, disfrutas su vuelo. En lo m?s alto se rompe el hilo de tu memoria y te sientas a presenciar corno lo posee la distancia. Briceida Cuevas Cob was born in 1969 in Tepakan, Calkim, in the province of Campeche on the Yucatan Peninsula. She writes in both Yucatec Maya and Spanish languages. Her poetry has been published in several literary magazines and newspapers in Quitana Roo, Campeche, Yucatan, a…
The physiological, acoustic, and perceptual basis of high back vowel fronting: Evidence from German tense and lax vowels
The contributions of the lips and the tongue to the diachronic fronting of high back vowels in Standard Southern British English
Recent acoustic studies have provided evidence that /u/ (goose) and /ʊ/ (foot) have fronted in the standard accent of England in the last fifty years, but what is less clear is whether this fronting is due entirely to a repositioning of the tongue or whether it has been accompanied by an unrounding of the lips. Four experiments were carried out to shed light on this issue. An acoustic study of anticipatory coarticulation in /s/ in the first of th…
The Relationship between the Perception and Production of Coarticulation during a Sound Change in Progress
The present study is concerned with lax /ʊ/-fronting in Standard British English and in particular with whether this sound change in progress can be attributed to a waning of the perceptual compensation for the coarticulatory effects of context. Younger and older speakers produced various monosyllables in which /ʊ/ occurred in different symmetrical consonantal contexts. The same speakers participated in a forced-choice perception experiment in wh…
Synchronic and diachronic factors in the change from pre-aspiration to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish
The phonetic origins of /s/-retraction: Acoustic and perceptual evidence from Australian English
The articulatory and acoustic characteristics of Polish sibilants and their consequences for diachronic change
The study is concerned with the relative synchronic stability of three contrastive sibilant fricatives /sʂ ɕ/ in Polish. Tongue movement data were collected from nine first-language Polish speakers producing symmetrical real and non-word CVCV sequences in three vowel contexts. A Gaussian model was used to classify the sibilants from spectral information in the noise and from formant frequencies at vowel onset. The physiological analysis showed an…
China, Global Ecopolitics and Antarctic Governance: Converging Paths
U/-Fronting and Agent-Based Modeling: The relationship between the origin and spread of sound change
This study is concerned with whether an asymmetric phonetic overlap between speaker groups contributes to the directional spread of sound change. An acoustic analysis of speakers of Southern British English showed that younger speakers’ fronted /u/ was probabilistically closer to that of older speakers’ retracted /u/ distributions than the other way around. Agent-based modeling based on the same data showed an asymmetric shift of older toward you…
A dynamic model of the change from pre- to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish
In Andalusian Spanish, there is a well-documented sound change in which pre- has become post-aspiration in sequences of /s/ followed by voiceless stops. Here we investigate acoustically its synchronic basis across two age groups and two different regions of Andalusia that differ in the degree to which the sound change has advanced. For this purpose, Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) was applied to the probability of voicing and to th…
Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German: Supplementary material
The influence of Standard German on the vowels and diphthongs of West Central Bavarian
The spoken accent of children is strongly influenced by those of their peers but how rapidly do they adapt to sound changes in progress? We addressed this issue in an acoustic analysis of child and adult vowels of West Central Bavarian (WCB) that may be subject to an increasing influence by the Standard German (SG) variety. The study was a combination of longitudinal and apparent-time analyses: re-recordings from 20 WCB children in their first, s…
Phonetics and Phonology Research (24 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (21 works) · Linguistics (20 works) · Vowel (18 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Speech Recognition and Synthesis (13 works) · Speech recognition (12 works) · Acoustics (11 works) · History (11 works)