Alice Faber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3821694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Faber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Faber |
| SIGNATURE | FABER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haskins Laboratories |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
1. introduction in 2012, a group of Western U.S. sociolinguists came together for an informal meeting at Stanford University to discuss current research on Western U.S. English dialects. The initiative was an attempt to find ways to align our research interests and encourage more work on the vastly understudied English dialects of this American region. As a result of this meeting, several participants began discussing how to synthesize our work o…
Perceptual Assimilation and Discrimination of Non-Native Vowel Contrasts
Research on language-specific tuning in speech perception has focused mainly on consonants, while that on non-native vowel perception has failed to address whether the same principles apply. Therefore, non-native vowel perception was investigated here in light of relevant theoretical models: the Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) and the Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework. American-English speakers completed discrimination and native languag…
The discriminability of nearly merged sounds
In a near-merger, speakers produce two contrasting words differently, without reliably being able to discern the contrast in their own speech or in the speech of others. Acoustic measurements typically reveal small differences between the elements of near-merged minimal pairs along several acoustic dimensions. We argue that statistical evaluation of the potential distinctiveness of these near-merged elements must simultaneously take into account …
Tiberian Hebrew Phonology
Phonological Development
Cross-sectional tongue shape and linguopalatal contact patterns in [s], [∫], [f], and [1]
Phonation differences and the phonetic content of the tense-lax contrast in Utah English
This article presents data bearing on the question of what happens at the phonetic level during a sound change of the type which Labov, Yaeger, and Steiner (1972) labeled an “apparent merger.” Our production data come from three generations of native Utahns who participated in the Intermountain Language Survey (ImLS) and four New Yorkers who served as control subjects. The phonetic subject of our study is the ongoing change in the tense-lax pairs…
On the Nature of Proto-Semitic *l
BASED ON THE REGULARITY of the correspondences supporting it, it would appear that reconstruction of Proto-Semitic *1 is uncontroversial and, by implication, uninteresting. It is the purpose of this note to demonstrate that, clear-cut though reconstruction of a Proto-Semitic *1 may be, it is not uninteresting. On the contrary, consideration of the phonetic nature of *l and of its reflexes has the potential to illuminate several problems of Semiti…
On The Actuation of Sound Change
Careful examination of the Semitic languages provides a substantial amount of evidence for an association of hushing sibilants with a class of segments having at its core /r/ and /m/. This association is manifested in a statistically elevated number of Proto-Semitic roots in which *r and *1 co-occur (compared with those in which *r and *s co-occur) , in the sporadic appearance of reflexes of *4 instead of *s in roots containing *r or *m, and, par…
On the Structural Unity of the Eshmunazor Inscription
Avishur (1979) suggests that the Eshmunazor sarcophagus inscription is a combination of a traditional funerary inscription with non-commemorative archival material. The purpose of this paper is to show that Avishur's thesis cannot be substantiated: viewed in the historical context of Eshmunazor II's brief reign and in light of the structural flexibility apparent in the North-West Semitic inscriptional corpus, the Eshmunazor inscription is an artf…
Akkadian Evidence for Proto-Semitic Affricates
Phonation differences and the phonetic content of the tense-lax contrast in Utah English
This article presents data bearing on the question of what happens at the phonetic level during a sound change of the type which Labov, Yaeger, and Steiner (1972) labeled an “apparent merger.” Our production data come from three generations of native Utahns who participated in the Intermountain Language Survey (ImLS) and four New Yorkers who served as control subjects. The phonetic subject of our study is the ongoing change in the tense-lax pairs…
Cross-sectional tongue shape and linguopalatal contact patterns in [s], [∫], [f], and [1]
The discriminability of nearly merged sounds
In a near-merger, speakers produce two contrasting words differently, without reliably being able to discern the contrast in their own speech or in the speech of others. Acoustic measurements typically reveal small differences between the elements of near-merged minimal pairs along several acoustic dimensions. We argue that statistical evaluation of the potential distinctiveness of these near-merged elements must simultaneously take into account …
Akkadian Evidence for Proto-Semitic Affricates
On the Nature of Proto-Semitic *l
BASED ON THE REGULARITY of the correspondences supporting it, it would appear that reconstruction of Proto-Semitic *1 is uncontroversial and, by implication, uninteresting. It is the purpose of this note to demonstrate that, clear-cut though reconstruction of a Proto-Semitic *1 may be, it is not uninteresting. On the contrary, consideration of the phonetic nature of *l and of its reflexes has the potential to illuminate several problems of Semiti…
Akkadian Evidence for Proto-Semitic Affricates
On The Actuation of Sound Change
Careful examination of the Semitic languages provides a substantial amount of evidence for an association of hushing sibilants with a class of segments having at its core /r/ and /m/. This association is manifested in a statistically elevated number of Proto-Semitic roots in which *r and *1 co-occur (compared with those in which *r and *s co-occur) , in the sporadic appearance of reflexes of *4 instead of *s in roots containing *r or *m, and, par…
On the Structural Unity of the Eshmunazor Inscription
Avishur (1979) suggests that the Eshmunazor sarcophagus inscription is a combination of a traditional funerary inscription with non-commemorative archival material. The purpose of this paper is to show that Avishur's thesis cannot be substantiated: viewed in the historical context of Eshmunazor II's brief reign and in light of the structural flexibility apparent in the North-West Semitic inscriptional corpus, the Eshmunazor inscription is an artf…
On the Nature of Proto-Semitic *l
BASED ON THE REGULARITY of the correspondences supporting it, it would appear that reconstruction of Proto-Semitic *1 is uncontroversial and, by implication, uninteresting. It is the purpose of this note to demonstrate that, clear-cut though reconstruction of a Proto-Semitic *1 may be, it is not uninteresting. On the contrary, consideration of the phonetic nature of *l and of its reflexes has the potential to illuminate several problems of Semiti…
Phonation differences and the phonetic content of the tense-lax contrast in Utah English
This article presents data bearing on the question of what happens at the phonetic level during a sound change of the type which Labov, Yaeger, and Steiner (1972) labeled an “apparent merger.” Our production data come from three generations of native Utahns who participated in the Intermountain Language Survey (ImLS) and four New Yorkers who served as control subjects. The phonetic subject of our study is the ongoing change in the tense-lax pairs…
Cross-sectional tongue shape and linguopalatal contact patterns in [s], [∫], [f], and [1]
Phonological Development
The discriminability of nearly merged sounds
In a near-merger, speakers produce two contrasting words differently, without reliably being able to discern the contrast in their own speech or in the speech of others. Acoustic measurements typically reveal small differences between the elements of near-merged minimal pairs along several acoustic dimensions. We argue that statistical evaluation of the potential distinctiveness of these near-merged elements must simultaneously take into account …
Tiberian Hebrew Phonology
Perceptual Assimilation and Discrimination of Non-Native Vowel Contrasts
Research on language-specific tuning in speech perception has focused mainly on consonants, while that on non-native vowel perception has failed to address whether the same principles apply. Therefore, non-native vowel perception was investigated here in light of relevant theoretical models: the Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) and the Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework. American-English speakers completed discrimination and native languag…
Introduction
1. introduction in 2012, a group of Western U.S. sociolinguists came together for an informal meeting at Stanford University to discuss current research on Western U.S. English dialects. The initiative was an attempt to find ways to align our research interests and encourage more work on the vastly understudied English dialects of this American region. As a result of this meeting, several participants began discussing how to synthesize our work o…
Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · History (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Phonology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Arabic (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)