Scott Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3662504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An experimental study of focus in Luganda
Previous work has established that focus in Luganda is clearly signaled through the choice of syntactic configuration and morphological marking. There has been no indication in the literature to date that there is any use in the language of acoustic prominence cues for focus such as those found in English or Mandarin.The present article provides experimental evidence that vowels in focused expressions in Luganda have greater duration, higher peak…
F0 timing in Luganda
Domain generalisation in artificial language learning
Many languages have restrictions on word-final segments, such as a requirement that any word-final obstruent be voiceless. There is a phonetic basis for such restrictions at the ends of utterances, but not the ends of words. Historical linguists have long noted this mismatch, and have attributed it to an analogical generalisation of such restrictions from utterance-final to word-final position. To test whether language learners actually generalis…
Regressive voicing assimilation
Many languages have a phonological pattern of regressive voicing assimilation, according to which an obstruent is required to match a following obstruent in voicing (e.g. Russian, Sanskrit). This restriction on the distribution of categories has parallels in the phonetic fact that an obstruent has a longer interval of glottal pulsing when it occurs before a voiced sound than when it occurs before a voiceless sound. It is proposed that the phonolo…
The Origin of Vowel Length Neutralization in Final Position
The origin of vowel-length neutralisation in vocoid sequences
A number of languages have independently developed a pattern of vowel-length neutralisation according to which a vowel after a vocoid must be long. It is proposed that this pattern arises from the inherent acoustic ambiguity of such sequences, which are realised with a diphthongal transition from one formant pattern to the next, with no clear boundary between the two. Neutralisation in vocoid sequences originates from listeners' difficulties in d…
Vowel duration and neutralization of vowel length contrasts in Kinyarwanda
Tone association and F0 timing in Chichewa
In Chichewa (Bantu, Malawi), a high tone is realized as a peak in fundamental frequency (fO). In this study, the timing of fO peaks relative to the duration of the high-toned syllable was measured for high tones in phrase-medial, -penultimate and -final positions. No phonetic support was found for the assumption in the literature that a phrase-medial high tone is spread over two syllables. Instead, it was found that such a high tone is realized w…
Surface underspecification of tone in Chichewa
In Chichewa, a Bantu language spoken mainly in Malawi, there is a contrast between high and low tone, as illustrated by such minimal pairs as mtengo ‘price’ vs. mténgo ‘tree’. But there is a strong asymmetry between the two tones in their phonological behaviour: high tone is phonologically active, while low tone is phonologically inert. Tone changes occur in Chichewa only if there is a high tone present in the phrase; a phrase composed only of lo…
Tonal transfer in Chichewa
What happens to tone when a form is reduplicated in a tone language? In Marantz's (1982) model of reduplication, it is only segmental melody that is copied from the base. This approach predicts that no tones of the base will appear on the reduplicant. In other models, the whole base is copied, including prosody (Steriade 1988; McCarthy & Prince 1988, forthcoming). This approach predicts that the tone of the base will always appear on the reduplic…
Epenthesis, mutation, and structure preservation in the Shona causative
In Shona (Bantu: Zimbabwe), the causative fonn of a verb is fonned in one of two ways: either with the suffix -is-/-es- or by changing the root final consonant to a corresponding coronal continuant. The author argues for an analysis in which both fonns are derived from a common underlying suffix /sl. The suffixal fonn is the result of an independently motivated process of epenthesis. The mutation, on the other hand, comes about by fusion of the /…
Malcolm Guthrie and John F. Carrington. Lingala
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Vowel shortening in English
A Survey of British Literature on Buenos Aires During the First Half of the 19th Century
The British involvement with Argentina has a long and, at times, tumultous history. Dating as far back as the 18th century the Rio de la Plata basin held a great attraction for British merchants. England needed Spanish America as a source of bullion and an outlet for individual goods. As early as the 1540s British vessels explored the coastlines, of Argentina. There already existed a considerable amount of trade between Brazil and England through…
The Origin of Vowel Length Neutralization in Final Position
Vowel shortening in English
Vowel duration and neutralization of vowel length contrasts in Kinyarwanda
Tone association and F0 timing in Chichewa
In Chichewa (Bantu, Malawi), a high tone is realized as a peak in fundamental frequency (fO). In this study, the timing of fO peaks relative to the duration of the high-toned syllable was measured for high tones in phrase-medial, -penultimate and -final positions. No phonetic support was found for the assumption in the literature that a phrase-medial high tone is spread over two syllables. Instead, it was found that such a high tone is realized w…
Regressive voicing assimilation
Many languages have a phonological pattern of regressive voicing assimilation, according to which an obstruent is required to match a following obstruent in voicing (e.g. Russian, Sanskrit). This restriction on the distribution of categories has parallels in the phonetic fact that an obstruent has a longer interval of glottal pulsing when it occurs before a voiced sound than when it occurs before a voiceless sound. It is proposed that the phonolo…
Vowel shortening in English
A Survey of British Literature on Buenos Aires During the First Half of the 19th Century
The British involvement with Argentina has a long and, at times, tumultous history. Dating as far back as the 18th century the Rio de la Plata basin held a great attraction for British merchants. England needed Spanish America as a source of bullion and an outlet for individual goods. As early as the 1540s British vessels explored the coastlines, of Argentina. There already existed a considerable amount of trade between Brazil and England through…
Malcolm Guthrie and John F. Carrington. Lingala
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Epenthesis, mutation, and structure preservation in the Shona causative
In Shona (Bantu: Zimbabwe), the causative fonn of a verb is fonned in one of two ways: either with the suffix -is-/-es- or by changing the root final consonant to a corresponding coronal continuant. The author argues for an analysis in which both fonns are derived from a common underlying suffix /sl. The suffixal fonn is the result of an independently motivated process of epenthesis. The mutation, on the other hand, comes about by fusion of the /…
Tonal transfer in Chichewa
What happens to tone when a form is reduplicated in a tone language? In Marantz's (1982) model of reduplication, it is only segmental melody that is copied from the base. This approach predicts that no tones of the base will appear on the reduplicant. In other models, the whole base is copied, including prosody (Steriade 1988; McCarthy & Prince 1988, forthcoming). This approach predicts that the tone of the base will always appear on the reduplic…
Surface underspecification of tone in Chichewa
In Chichewa, a Bantu language spoken mainly in Malawi, there is a contrast between high and low tone, as illustrated by such minimal pairs as mtengo ‘price’ vs. mténgo ‘tree’. But there is a strong asymmetry between the two tones in their phonological behaviour: high tone is phonologically active, while low tone is phonologically inert. Tone changes occur in Chichewa only if there is a high tone present in the phrase; a phrase composed only of lo…
Tone association and F0 timing in Chichewa
In Chichewa (Bantu, Malawi), a high tone is realized as a peak in fundamental frequency (fO). In this study, the timing of fO peaks relative to the duration of the high-toned syllable was measured for high tones in phrase-medial, -penultimate and -final positions. No phonetic support was found for the assumption in the literature that a phrase-medial high tone is spread over two syllables. Instead, it was found that such a high tone is realized w…
The origin of vowel-length neutralisation in vocoid sequences
A number of languages have independently developed a pattern of vowel-length neutralisation according to which a vowel after a vocoid must be long. It is proposed that this pattern arises from the inherent acoustic ambiguity of such sequences, which are realised with a diphthongal transition from one formant pattern to the next, with no clear boundary between the two. Neutralisation in vocoid sequences originates from listeners' difficulties in d…
Vowel duration and neutralization of vowel length contrasts in Kinyarwanda
The Origin of Vowel Length Neutralization in Final Position
Regressive voicing assimilation
Many languages have a phonological pattern of regressive voicing assimilation, according to which an obstruent is required to match a following obstruent in voicing (e.g. Russian, Sanskrit). This restriction on the distribution of categories has parallels in the phonetic fact that an obstruent has a longer interval of glottal pulsing when it occurs before a voiced sound than when it occurs before a voiceless sound. It is proposed that the phonolo…
Domain generalisation in artificial language learning
Many languages have restrictions on word-final segments, such as a requirement that any word-final obstruent be voiceless. There is a phonetic basis for such restrictions at the ends of utterances, but not the ends of words. Historical linguists have long noted this mismatch, and have attributed it to an analogical generalisation of such restrictions from utterance-final to word-final position. To test whether language learners actually generalis…
F0 timing in Luganda
An experimental study of focus in Luganda
Previous work has established that focus in Luganda is clearly signaled through the choice of syntactic configuration and morphological marking. There has been no indication in the literature to date that there is any use in the language of acoustic prominence cues for focus such as those found in English or Mandarin.The present article provides experimental evidence that vowels in focused expressions in Luganda have greater duration, higher peak…
Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · Mathematics (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 works) · Speech recognition (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Phrase (6 works) · Acoustics (5 works) · Physics (5 works)