Susanne Gahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 737458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Gahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Gahl |
| SIGNATURE | GAHL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1293-7899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Time and thyme again: Connecting English spoken word duration to models of the mental lexicon: Supplemental material
Time and thyme again: Connecting English spoken word duration to models of the mental lexicon
Effects of word frequency on spoken word duration are well documented and have long informed theories of the mental lexicon. In this study, we discuss the two theoretical constructs, 'frequency' and 'word', that are implicated by the notion of lexical frequency, in light of recent models of the lexicon that do not contain stable, discrete lexical representations, and in which lexical frequency therefore has no place. We compare two approaches (lo…
Didn't hear that coming: Effects of withholding phonetic cues to code-switching
Code-switching has been found to incur a processing cost in auditory comprehension. However, listeners may have access to anticipatory phonetic cues to code-switches (Piccinini & Garellek, 2014; Fricke et al., 2016), thus mitigating switch cost. We investigated effects of withholding anticipatory phonetic cues on code-switched word recognition by splicing English-to-Mandarin code-switches into unilingual English sentences. In a concept monitoring…
Twenty-eight years of vowels: Tracking phonetic variation through young to middle age adulthood
Lexical competition in vowel articulation revisited: Vowel dispersion in the Easy/Hard database
A widely-cited study investigating effects of recognition difficulty on the phonetic realization of words (Wright, 2004). Factors of lexical competition in vowel articulation. In J. Local, R. Ogden & R. Temple (Eds.), Papers in laboratory phonology, Vol. VI (pp. 26–50)) reported that vowel dispersion, i.e. distance from the center of the talker's F1/F2 space, was greater in words that represented difficult recognition targets (‘hard’ words) than …
Why reduce? Phonological neighborhood density and phonetic reduction in spontaneous speech
Time and Thyme Are not Homophones: The Effect of Lemma Frequency on Word Durations in Spontaneous Speech
Frequent words tend to shorten. But do homophone pairs, such as time and thyme , shorten equally if one member of the pair is frequent? This study reports an analysis of roughly 90,000 tokens of homophones in the Switchboard corpus of American English telephone conversations, in which it was found that high-frequency words like time are significantly shorter than their low-frequency homophones like thyme . The effect of lemma frequency persisted …
Letters to Language
Letters to Language Susanne Gahl and Gregory R. Guy Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are included as warranted. Reviewing Procedures January 19, 2007 To the Editor: Concerning Colin Phillips’s suggest…
Introduction to the special issue on exemplar-based models in linguistics
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a cluster of approaches in linguistic theory known as exemplar-based models. Such exemplar-based models are being developed in research domains as diverse as phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, semantics, syntax, and language acquisition. This special issue brings together, for the first time, articles applying exemplarbased models to a wide range of linguistic subdisciplines. We …
Knowledge of Grammar Includes Knowledge of Syntactic Probabilities
Knowledge of grammar includes knowledge of syntactic probabilities* Susanne Gahl and Susan Garnsey Errata 1. Grammar and language form 1.1. What gahl and garnsey (2004) show There is widespread consensus that one of the tasks of a grammar is to describe the form of language. What Gahl and Garnsey (2004; henceforth G&G) show is that the description of both /t,d/-deletion and word and pause durations in American English needs to make reference to s…
Knowledge of Grammar, Knowledge of Usage: Syntactic Probabilities Affect Pronunciation Variation
Frequent words tend to shorten (see e.g. Schuchardt 1885, Hooper 1976), as do words that have a high probability of occurrence given a neighboring word (Jurafsky et al. 2001). This tendency has been cited in support of the claim that probabilities are an inherent part of grammar, and of syntax in particular. There is widespread consensus, however, that the syntax of natural languages cannot be captured in terms of item-to-item transitions (Chomsk…
Aphasia in Atypical Populations
Acquired Aphasia
Syllable onsets as a factor in stress rules: The case of Mathimathi revisited
Theories of stress assignment commonly assume that syllable onsets do not determine a syllable's ability to attract stress. In the frameworks of McCarthy (1979) and Hayes (1981, 1995), for example, only the rhyme is projected in order to determine the weight of a syllable. In Moraic Theory (Hyman 1985), onsets do not contribute to the weight of a syllable as a consequence of the Onset Creation rule, by which onsets lose their weightbearing unit. …
Time and Thyme Are not Homophones: The Effect of Lemma Frequency on Word Durations in Spontaneous Speech
Frequent words tend to shorten. But do homophone pairs, such as time and thyme , shorten equally if one member of the pair is frequent? This study reports an analysis of roughly 90,000 tokens of homophones in the Switchboard corpus of American English telephone conversations, in which it was found that high-frequency words like time are significantly shorter than their low-frequency homophones like thyme . The effect of lemma frequency persisted …
Knowledge of Grammar, Knowledge of Usage: Syntactic Probabilities Affect Pronunciation Variation
Frequent words tend to shorten (see e.g. Schuchardt 1885, Hooper 1976), as do words that have a high probability of occurrence given a neighboring word (Jurafsky et al. 2001). This tendency has been cited in support of the claim that probabilities are an inherent part of grammar, and of syntax in particular. There is widespread consensus, however, that the syntax of natural languages cannot be captured in terms of item-to-item transitions (Chomsk…
Twenty-eight years of vowels: Tracking phonetic variation through young to middle age adulthood
Lexical competition in vowel articulation revisited: Vowel dispersion in the Easy/Hard database
A widely-cited study investigating effects of recognition difficulty on the phonetic realization of words (Wright, 2004). Factors of lexical competition in vowel articulation. In J. Local, R. Ogden & R. Temple (Eds.), Papers in laboratory phonology, Vol. VI (pp. 26–50)) reported that vowel dispersion, i.e. distance from the center of the talker's F1/F2 space, was greater in words that represented difficult recognition targets (‘hard’ words) than …
Knowledge of Grammar Includes Knowledge of Syntactic Probabilities
Knowledge of grammar includes knowledge of syntactic probabilities* Susanne Gahl and Susan Garnsey Errata 1. Grammar and language form 1.1. What gahl and garnsey (2004) show There is widespread consensus that one of the tasks of a grammar is to describe the form of language. What Gahl and Garnsey (2004; henceforth G&G) show is that the description of both /t,d/-deletion and word and pause durations in American English needs to make reference to s…
Time and thyme again: Connecting English spoken word duration to models of the mental lexicon
Effects of word frequency on spoken word duration are well documented and have long informed theories of the mental lexicon. In this study, we discuss the two theoretical constructs, 'frequency' and 'word', that are implicated by the notion of lexical frequency, in light of recent models of the lexicon that do not contain stable, discrete lexical representations, and in which lexical frequency therefore has no place. We compare two approaches (lo…
Syllable onsets as a factor in stress rules: The case of Mathimathi revisited
Theories of stress assignment commonly assume that syllable onsets do not determine a syllable's ability to attract stress. In the frameworks of McCarthy (1979) and Hayes (1981, 1995), for example, only the rhyme is projected in order to determine the weight of a syllable. In Moraic Theory (Hyman 1985), onsets do not contribute to the weight of a syllable as a consequence of the Onset Creation rule, by which onsets lose their weightbearing unit. …
Acquired Aphasia
Aphasia in Atypical Populations
Knowledge of Grammar, Knowledge of Usage: Syntactic Probabilities Affect Pronunciation Variation
Frequent words tend to shorten (see e.g. Schuchardt 1885, Hooper 1976), as do words that have a high probability of occurrence given a neighboring word (Jurafsky et al. 2001). This tendency has been cited in support of the claim that probabilities are an inherent part of grammar, and of syntax in particular. There is widespread consensus, however, that the syntax of natural languages cannot be captured in terms of item-to-item transitions (Chomsk…
Introduction to the special issue on exemplar-based models in linguistics
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a cluster of approaches in linguistic theory known as exemplar-based models. Such exemplar-based models are being developed in research domains as diverse as phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, semantics, syntax, and language acquisition. This special issue brings together, for the first time, articles applying exemplarbased models to a wide range of linguistic subdisciplines. We …
Knowledge of Grammar Includes Knowledge of Syntactic Probabilities
Knowledge of grammar includes knowledge of syntactic probabilities* Susanne Gahl and Susan Garnsey Errata 1. Grammar and language form 1.1. What gahl and garnsey (2004) show There is widespread consensus that one of the tasks of a grammar is to describe the form of language. What Gahl and Garnsey (2004; henceforth G&G) show is that the description of both /t,d/-deletion and word and pause durations in American English needs to make reference to s…
Letters to Language
Letters to Language Susanne Gahl and Gregory R. Guy Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are included as warranted. Reviewing Procedures January 19, 2007 To the Editor: Concerning Colin Phillips’s suggest…
Time and Thyme Are not Homophones: The Effect of Lemma Frequency on Word Durations in Spontaneous Speech
Frequent words tend to shorten. But do homophone pairs, such as time and thyme , shorten equally if one member of the pair is frequent? This study reports an analysis of roughly 90,000 tokens of homophones in the Switchboard corpus of American English telephone conversations, in which it was found that high-frequency words like time are significantly shorter than their low-frequency homophones like thyme . The effect of lemma frequency persisted …
Why reduce? Phonological neighborhood density and phonetic reduction in spontaneous speech
Lexical competition in vowel articulation revisited: Vowel dispersion in the Easy/Hard database
A widely-cited study investigating effects of recognition difficulty on the phonetic realization of words (Wright, 2004). Factors of lexical competition in vowel articulation. In J. Local, R. Ogden & R. Temple (Eds.), Papers in laboratory phonology, Vol. VI (pp. 26–50)) reported that vowel dispersion, i.e. distance from the center of the talker's F1/F2 space, was greater in words that represented difficult recognition targets (‘hard’ words) than …
Twenty-eight years of vowels: Tracking phonetic variation through young to middle age adulthood
Didn't hear that coming: Effects of withholding phonetic cues to code-switching
Code-switching has been found to incur a processing cost in auditory comprehension. However, listeners may have access to anticipatory phonetic cues to code-switches (Piccinini & Garellek, 2014; Fricke et al., 2016), thus mitigating switch cost. We investigated effects of withholding anticipatory phonetic cues on code-switched word recognition by splicing English-to-Mandarin code-switches into unilingual English sentences. In a concept monitoring…
Time and thyme again: Connecting English spoken word duration to models of the mental lexicon: Supplemental material
Time and thyme again: Connecting English spoken word duration to models of the mental lexicon
Effects of word frequency on spoken word duration are well documented and have long informed theories of the mental lexicon. In this study, we discuss the two theoretical constructs, 'frequency' and 'word', that are implicated by the notion of lexical frequency, in light of recent models of the lexicon that do not contain stable, discrete lexical representations, and in which lexical frequency therefore has no place. We compare two approaches (lo…
Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Natural language processing (4 works) · Pronunciation (4 works) · Speech recognition (4 works)