Joseph Paul Stemberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 733874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Paul Stemberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Stemberger |
| SIGNATURE | STEMBERGER J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3901-267X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints
While consonant acquisition clearly requires mastery of different articulatory configurations (segments), sub-segmental features and suprasegmental contexts influence both order of acquisition and mismatch (error) patterns (Bérubé, Bernhardt, Stemberger & Ciocca, 2020). Constraints-based nonlinear phonology provides a comprehensive framework for investigating the impact of sub- and suprasegmental impacts on acquisition (Bernhardt & Stemberger, 19…
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic
The feature [+spread glottis] ([+s.g.]) denotes that a speech sound is produced with a wide glottal aperture with audible voiceless airflow. Icelandic is unusual in the degree to which [+spread glottis] is involved in the phonology: in /h/, pre-aspirated and post-aspirated stops, voiceless fricatives and voiceless sonorants. The ubiquitousness of the feature could potentially affect the rate and process of its acquisition. This paper investigates…
Acquisition of variability in Akan Phonology: Labio-palatalized consonants and front rounded vowels
This paper addresses how input variability in the adult phonological system is mastered in the output of young children in Akan, a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, involving variability between labio-palatalized consonants and front rounded vowels. The high-frequency variant involves a complex consonant which is expected to be mastered late, while the low-frequency variant involves a front rounded vowel which is expected to be mastered relatively ea…
Variability in a German-Speaking Child as Viewed from a Constraint-Based Nonlinear Phonology Perspective
This paper provides an overview of constraint-based nonlinear phonological theories (Bernhardt & Stemberger, 1998) in clinical application to German. Tenets of the theories are briefly introduced, and then illustrated with longitudinal data from a 3-year-old German-speaking child with variable and protracted phonological development. The child's consonant system showed both improvement and regression over time. Fricatives and /l/ decreased in acc…
Glottal transparency
Glottal consonants (/h/ and /?/) often have a special status that has led to the hypothesis that they are underspecified for both consonant and vowel place of articulation features. There is an alternative acoustically based explanation for the special status that, while workable, is valued less highly in linguistic theory. This alternative hypothesis can be ruled out only with data where the relevant acoustic phenomena are not contained in the i…
Vowel dominance in overregularizations
When children produce regularizations like comed , not all verbs are equally likely to be regularized. Several variables (e.g. lexical frequency) have been shown to be relevant, but not all the variability between verbs is understood. It is argued here that one predictor is which vowels are present in the base form vs. the past tense form. Using a notion of recessive vs. dominant vowel (where recessive vowels are more likely to be replaced by dom…
Vocalic Underspecification in English Language Production
Phonological underspecification for English vowels is addressed using data from language production. Patterns in speech errors induced by means of the experimental SLIPS procedure argue for radical underspecification; the underspecified vowel place features are [-high], [-low], [-back], and [-round] (as in /ε/ ). Similarity effects in naturally-occurring speech errors lead to the same conclusions. With respect to the question of why the underspec…
A Performance Constraint on Compensatory Lengthening in Child Phonology
The systematic mispronunciations of young children often resemble phonological rules, and there is a temptation to treat the data as identical to adult phonological data. However, performance factors are often evident in the child's speech. Constraints in phonological theory are “hard” (all-or-nothing), but constraints in performance are often “soft” (allowing something to occur under some conditions but not under others). One child phonological …
Radical underspecification in language production
Phonological underspecification plays an important role in phonological theory. Some features are left blank in underlying representations. If they are relevant to the pronunciation of a segment, they are filled in at some point in the derivation; otherwise, they are left blank permanently. When underspecification was reintroduced to phonological theory in the 1980s, researchers originally assumed that all information that could be considered pre…
Between-word processes in child phonology
Most processes in child phonology have as their domain a single word or a smaller chunk of phonological material. Processes that involve the interaction of two or more words have never been examined. In a diary study of the speech of one child acquiring English, there were eight between-word processes. All were optional and occurred in fairly restricted environments. Most of the processes were of short duration. Consequences for the study of chil…
A processing constraint on inflectional homonymy
Reduplication in Ewe: Morphological accommodation to phonological errors
Speech errors have often been used to support the psychological reality of phonologically dependent allomorphy in inflectional rules. The phenomenon of morphological accommodation to phonological errors is the most compelling evidence of this sort. We investigate reduplication in Ewe, experimentally inducing phonological errors to see whether reduplicated forms show accommodation. This was the case. Implications for reduplication in Ewe and for m…
Language Production II: Development, Writing, and Other Language Processes
On the yin and yang Nature of Language
CV phonology and French consonants: A concrete approach
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Speech Error Collection and Fieldwork: Some Choctaw Speech Errors
Length as a Suprasegmental: Evidence from Speech Errors
Segmental length can be analysed in one of three possible ways: as a segmental feature, as gemination, or as a suprasegmental. These three analyses make different predictions about how length should behave in language production. Treating length as a suprasegmental predicts that it will frequently be dissociated from a segment, while the other analyses predict it will usually not be. Speech error corpora in German, Swedish, and English are examin…
Distant context effects in language production: A reply to Motley et al
The organization of language
The nature of /r/ and /l/ in English: Evidence From Speech Errors
Inflectional malapropisms: Form-based errors in English morphology
Syntactic errors in speech
The nature of segments in the lexicon: Evidence from speech errors
Morphological Haplology
A fairly common phenomenon of inflection is morphological haplology, in which an affix or clitic is absent when the adjacent part of the stem is homophonous to it, e.g. Eng. poss. pl. boys ', not boys's. Data are adduced from numerous affixes and clitics in eleven languages. Haplology may be a major or minor rule; it may show lexical diffusion; and it is subject to various specifications on how similar the ‘homophonous’ part of the stem must be, …
The nature of segments in the lexicon: Evidence from speech errors
Morphological Haplology
A fairly common phenomenon of inflection is morphological haplology, in which an affix or clitic is absent when the adjacent part of the stem is homophonous to it, e.g. Eng. poss. pl. boys ', not boys's. Data are adduced from numerous affixes and clitics in eleven languages. Haplology may be a major or minor rule; it may show lexical diffusion; and it is subject to various specifications on how similar the ‘homophonous’ part of the stem must be, …
Length as a Suprasegmental: Evidence from Speech Errors
Segmental length can be analysed in one of three possible ways: as a segmental feature, as gemination, or as a suprasegmental. These three analyses make different predictions about how length should behave in language production. Treating length as a suprasegmental predicts that it will frequently be dissociated from a segment, while the other analyses predict it will usually not be. Speech error corpora in German, Swedish, and English are examin…
Syntactic errors in speech
A Performance Constraint on Compensatory Lengthening in Child Phonology
The systematic mispronunciations of young children often resemble phonological rules, and there is a temptation to treat the data as identical to adult phonological data. However, performance factors are often evident in the child's speech. Constraints in phonological theory are “hard” (all-or-nothing), but constraints in performance are often “soft” (allowing something to occur under some conditions but not under others). One child phonological …
Reduplication in Ewe: Morphological accommodation to phonological errors
Speech errors have often been used to support the psychological reality of phonologically dependent allomorphy in inflectional rules. The phenomenon of morphological accommodation to phonological errors is the most compelling evidence of this sort. We investigate reduplication in Ewe, experimentally inducing phonological errors to see whether reduplicated forms show accommodation. This was the case. Implications for reduplication in Ewe and for m…
CV phonology and French consonants: A concrete approach
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
Speech Error Collection and Fieldwork: Some Choctaw Speech Errors
The nature of /r/ and /l/ in English: Evidence From Speech Errors
Inflectional malapropisms: Form-based errors in English morphology
Vocalic Underspecification in English Language Production
Phonological underspecification for English vowels is addressed using data from language production. Patterns in speech errors induced by means of the experimental SLIPS procedure argue for radical underspecification; the underspecified vowel place features are [-high], [-low], [-back], and [-round] (as in /ε/ ). Similarity effects in naturally-occurring speech errors lead to the same conclusions. With respect to the question of why the underspec…
Morphological Haplology
A fairly common phenomenon of inflection is morphological haplology, in which an affix or clitic is absent when the adjacent part of the stem is homophonous to it, e.g. Eng. poss. pl. boys ', not boys's. Data are adduced from numerous affixes and clitics in eleven languages. Haplology may be a major or minor rule; it may show lexical diffusion; and it is subject to various specifications on how similar the ‘homophonous’ part of the stem must be, …
Syntactic errors in speech
The nature of segments in the lexicon: Evidence from speech errors
Distant context effects in language production: A reply to Motley et al
The organization of language
The nature of /r/ and /l/ in English: Evidence From Speech Errors
Inflectional malapropisms: Form-based errors in English morphology
Speech Error Collection and Fieldwork: Some Choctaw Speech Errors
Length as a Suprasegmental: Evidence from Speech Errors
Segmental length can be analysed in one of three possible ways: as a segmental feature, as gemination, or as a suprasegmental. These three analyses make different predictions about how length should behave in language production. Treating length as a suprasegmental predicts that it will frequently be dissociated from a segment, while the other analyses predict it will usually not be. Speech error corpora in German, Swedish, and English are examin…
Language Production II: Development, Writing, and Other Language Processes
On the yin and yang Nature of Language
CV phonology and French consonants: A concrete approach
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
Reduplication in Ewe: Morphological accommodation to phonological errors
Speech errors have often been used to support the psychological reality of phonologically dependent allomorphy in inflectional rules. The phenomenon of morphological accommodation to phonological errors is the most compelling evidence of this sort. We investigate reduplication in Ewe, experimentally inducing phonological errors to see whether reduplicated forms show accommodation. This was the case. Implications for reduplication in Ewe and for m…
Between-word processes in child phonology
Most processes in child phonology have as their domain a single word or a smaller chunk of phonological material. Processes that involve the interaction of two or more words have never been examined. In a diary study of the speech of one child acquiring English, there were eight between-word processes. All were optional and occurred in fairly restricted environments. Most of the processes were of short duration. Consequences for the study of chil…
A processing constraint on inflectional homonymy
Radical underspecification in language production
Phonological underspecification plays an important role in phonological theory. Some features are left blank in underlying representations. If they are relevant to the pronunciation of a segment, they are filled in at some point in the derivation; otherwise, they are left blank permanently. When underspecification was reintroduced to phonological theory in the 1980s, researchers originally assumed that all information that could be considered pre…
Vocalic Underspecification in English Language Production
Phonological underspecification for English vowels is addressed using data from language production. Patterns in speech errors induced by means of the experimental SLIPS procedure argue for radical underspecification; the underspecified vowel place features are [-high], [-low], [-back], and [-round] (as in /ε/ ). Similarity effects in naturally-occurring speech errors lead to the same conclusions. With respect to the question of why the underspec…
A Performance Constraint on Compensatory Lengthening in Child Phonology
The systematic mispronunciations of young children often resemble phonological rules, and there is a temptation to treat the data as identical to adult phonological data. However, performance factors are often evident in the child's speech. Constraints in phonological theory are “hard” (all-or-nothing), but constraints in performance are often “soft” (allowing something to occur under some conditions but not under others). One child phonological …
Glottal transparency
Glottal consonants (/h/ and /?/) often have a special status that has led to the hypothesis that they are underspecified for both consonant and vowel place of articulation features. There is an alternative acoustically based explanation for the special status that, while workable, is valued less highly in linguistic theory. This alternative hypothesis can be ruled out only with data where the relevant acoustic phenomena are not contained in the i…
Vowel dominance in overregularizations
When children produce regularizations like comed , not all verbs are equally likely to be regularized. Several variables (e.g. lexical frequency) have been shown to be relevant, but not all the variability between verbs is understood. It is argued here that one predictor is which vowels are present in the base form vs. the past tense form. Using a notion of recessive vs. dominant vowel (where recessive vowels are more likely to be replaced by dom…
Variability in a German-Speaking Child as Viewed from a Constraint-Based Nonlinear Phonology Perspective
This paper provides an overview of constraint-based nonlinear phonological theories (Bernhardt & Stemberger, 1998) in clinical application to German. Tenets of the theories are briefly introduced, and then illustrated with longitudinal data from a 3-year-old German-speaking child with variable and protracted phonological development. The child's consonant system showed both improvement and regression over time. Fricatives and /l/ decreased in acc…
Acquisition of variability in Akan Phonology: Labio-palatalized consonants and front rounded vowels
This paper addresses how input variability in the adult phonological system is mastered in the output of young children in Akan, a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, involving variability between labio-palatalized consonants and front rounded vowels. The high-frequency variant involves a complex consonant which is expected to be mastered late, while the low-frequency variant involves a front rounded vowel which is expected to be mastered relatively ea…
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints
While consonant acquisition clearly requires mastery of different articulatory configurations (segments), sub-segmental features and suprasegmental contexts influence both order of acquisition and mismatch (error) patterns (Bérubé, Bernhardt, Stemberger & Ciocca, 2020). Constraints-based nonlinear phonology provides a comprehensive framework for investigating the impact of sub- and suprasegmental impacts on acquisition (Bernhardt & Stemberger, 19…
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic
The feature [+spread glottis] ([+s.g.]) denotes that a speech sound is produced with a wide glottal aperture with audible voiceless airflow. Icelandic is unusual in the degree to which [+spread glottis] is involved in the phonology: in /h/, pre-aspirated and post-aspirated stops, voiceless fricatives and voiceless sonorants. The ubiquitousness of the feature could potentially affect the rate and process of its acquisition. This paper investigates…
Linguistics (24 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (12 works) · Phonology (11 works) · Language Development and Disorders (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Mathematics (7 works)