Adam J Chong
Biographic Data
| ID | 797996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam J Chong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam J |
| FAMILY NAME | Chong |
| SIGNATURE | CHONG A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2475-5219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conservativity in the scope of phonological generalization learning
Phonological alternations that arise due to morphological concatenation often serve to enforce static phonotactic generalizations within the lexicon. Due to this close link, knowledge about alternations and phonotactics are encoded using a single mechanism in constraint-based models like Optimality Theory. Evidence of this link in learning, however, is equivocal. In this study we examine whether learners readily extend a generalization from alter…
Breaking down prefixed words is unaffected by morphological boundary opacity
Previous experiments support an initial stage of early, form-based visual word recognition, where morphologically complex words like adorable are segmented into morphemes {adore}+{-able}, despite an orthographic change in the stem. However, most experiments have focused on words with clear boundaries between the affix and stem, making decomposition more straightforward. We investigate whether obscured boundaries between the prefix and stem affect…
Listening Effort Across Non-Native and Regional Accents
Previous work has shown that L2-accented speech incurs a processing cost even when accurately understood. It remains unknown, however, whether an online processing cost is found when listeners process speech produced in L1 accents that are not their own. In this study, we examine this question by using comparative pupil dilation as a measure of cognitive load. Participants from the South of England heard sentences produced in four different accen…
Phonetic variation in English infant-directed speech
Learning sound categories is central to language acquisition – but we know little about the extent of phonetic variability in the learner’s input. In this study, we phonetically annotated coronal segments (/t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, and /n/) in a corpus of naturalistic American English infant-directed speech (IDS). We did not find evidence that IDS is consistently more canonical than adult-directed speech (ADS), challenging the notion of IDS as a learni…
Prominence and intonation in Singapore English
Acoustic characteristics of fricatives in Francoprovençal (Nendaz)
Francoprovençal (FP) is a highly fragmented, severely endangered, and under-documented language spoken in parts of France, Italy and Switzerland. FP spoken in the Swiss Canton of Valais has a relatively rich voiceless fricative inventory, which for some varieties includes /ɬ/. FP is therefore unusual amongst Romance languages given the presence of a phonemic lateral fricative, which is also typologically rare in the world’s languages. Moreover, v…
Stem similarity modulates infants' acquisition of phonological alternations
The effect of phonotactics on alternation learning
The Effect of Phonotactics on Alternation Learning
This study investigates whether alternation learning is facilitated by a matching phonotactic generalization. In a series of artificial grammar learning experiments, English learners were trained on artificial languages evincing categorical vowel harmony alternations across morpheme boundaries. These languages differed in the degree of harmony within stems (disharmonic, semiharmonic, and harmonic), and thus the degree of phonotactic support for t…
Exceptionality and derived environment effects
Morphologically derived environment effects (MDEEs) are well-known examples where phonotactic patterns in the lexicon mismatch with what is allowed at morphological boundaries – alternations. Analyses of MDEEs usually assume that the alternation is morphologically general, and that the sequences ‘repaired’ across morpheme boundaries are phonotactically well-formed in the lexicon. This paper examines the phonotactic patterns in the lexicon of two …
Intonation Plays a Role in Language Discrimination by Infants
Previous research on infant language discrimination has focused primarily on the role of prosody, specifically rhythmic timing cues. This, however, ignores the potentially useful role that intonation, another aspect of prosody, might play in aiding discrimination. In this article, we investigated how and when American English‐learning infants discriminate between prosodically similar languages, specifically American English and German, focusing o…
Perceptual Similarity Modulates Context Effects in Online Compensation for Phonological Variation
Using a cross-modal word identification task and an eye-tracking visual-world experiment, we investigated the importance of phonological context in the recovery of tap variants of /t/- and /d/-final words in American English. In Experiment 1, listeners were less accurate when they heard a tap variant of a /t/ word in a non-licensing environment (before a consonant) than when they heard it in a licensing environment (before an unstressed vowel). C…
Lenition in Gaalpu
Continuant–stop alternations are a common pattern among Australian languages, such as in Yolngu Matha, Mawng and Wubuy. Some of these alternations have been hitherto analysed as lenition (e.g. Yolngu), while others have been argued to be hardening processes (e.g. Wubuy). Lenition processes of this kind are difficult to account for in various models of phonology, because they are conditioned by a two-sided context. This paper presents an analysis,…
The Effect of Phonotactics on Alternation Learning
This study investigates whether alternation learning is facilitated by a matching phonotactic generalization. In a series of artificial grammar learning experiments, English learners were trained on artificial languages evincing categorical vowel harmony alternations across morpheme boundaries. These languages differed in the degree of harmony within stems (disharmonic, semiharmonic, and harmonic), and thus the degree of phonotactic support for t…
Phonetic variation in English infant-directed speech
Learning sound categories is central to language acquisition – but we know little about the extent of phonetic variability in the learner’s input. In this study, we phonetically annotated coronal segments (/t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, and /n/) in a corpus of naturalistic American English infant-directed speech (IDS). We did not find evidence that IDS is consistently more canonical than adult-directed speech (ADS), challenging the notion of IDS as a learni…
Prominence and intonation in Singapore English
Lenition in Gaalpu
Continuant–stop alternations are a common pattern among Australian languages, such as in Yolngu Matha, Mawng and Wubuy. Some of these alternations have been hitherto analysed as lenition (e.g. Yolngu), while others have been argued to be hardening processes (e.g. Wubuy). Lenition processes of this kind are difficult to account for in various models of phonology, because they are conditioned by a two-sided context. This paper presents an analysis,…
Lenition in Gaalpu
Continuant–stop alternations are a common pattern among Australian languages, such as in Yolngu Matha, Mawng and Wubuy. Some of these alternations have been hitherto analysed as lenition (e.g. Yolngu), while others have been argued to be hardening processes (e.g. Wubuy). Lenition processes of this kind are difficult to account for in various models of phonology, because they are conditioned by a two-sided context. This paper presents an analysis,…
Perceptual Similarity Modulates Context Effects in Online Compensation for Phonological Variation
Using a cross-modal word identification task and an eye-tracking visual-world experiment, we investigated the importance of phonological context in the recovery of tap variants of /t/- and /d/-final words in American English. In Experiment 1, listeners were less accurate when they heard a tap variant of a /t/ word in a non-licensing environment (before a consonant) than when they heard it in a licensing environment (before an unstressed vowel). C…
Intonation Plays a Role in Language Discrimination by Infants
Previous research on infant language discrimination has focused primarily on the role of prosody, specifically rhythmic timing cues. This, however, ignores the potentially useful role that intonation, another aspect of prosody, might play in aiding discrimination. In this article, we investigated how and when American English‐learning infants discriminate between prosodically similar languages, specifically American English and German, focusing o…
Exceptionality and derived environment effects
Morphologically derived environment effects (MDEEs) are well-known examples where phonotactic patterns in the lexicon mismatch with what is allowed at morphological boundaries – alternations. Analyses of MDEEs usually assume that the alternation is morphologically general, and that the sequences ‘repaired’ across morpheme boundaries are phonotactically well-formed in the lexicon. This paper examines the phonotactic patterns in the lexicon of two …
Stem similarity modulates infants' acquisition of phonological alternations
The effect of phonotactics on alternation learning
The Effect of Phonotactics on Alternation Learning
This study investigates whether alternation learning is facilitated by a matching phonotactic generalization. In a series of artificial grammar learning experiments, English learners were trained on artificial languages evincing categorical vowel harmony alternations across morpheme boundaries. These languages differed in the degree of harmony within stems (disharmonic, semiharmonic, and harmonic), and thus the degree of phonotactic support for t…
Acoustic characteristics of fricatives in Francoprovençal (Nendaz)
Francoprovençal (FP) is a highly fragmented, severely endangered, and under-documented language spoken in parts of France, Italy and Switzerland. FP spoken in the Swiss Canton of Valais has a relatively rich voiceless fricative inventory, which for some varieties includes /ɬ/. FP is therefore unusual amongst Romance languages given the presence of a phonemic lateral fricative, which is also typologically rare in the world’s languages. Moreover, v…
Phonetic variation in English infant-directed speech
Learning sound categories is central to language acquisition – but we know little about the extent of phonetic variability in the learner’s input. In this study, we phonetically annotated coronal segments (/t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, and /n/) in a corpus of naturalistic American English infant-directed speech (IDS). We did not find evidence that IDS is consistently more canonical than adult-directed speech (ADS), challenging the notion of IDS as a learni…
Prominence and intonation in Singapore English
Breaking down prefixed words is unaffected by morphological boundary opacity
Previous experiments support an initial stage of early, form-based visual word recognition, where morphologically complex words like adorable are segmented into morphemes {adore}+{-able}, despite an orthographic change in the stem. However, most experiments have focused on words with clear boundaries between the affix and stem, making decomposition more straightforward. We investigate whether obscured boundaries between the prefix and stem affect…
Listening Effort Across Non-Native and Regional Accents
Previous work has shown that L2-accented speech incurs a processing cost even when accurately understood. It remains unknown, however, whether an online processing cost is found when listeners process speech produced in L1 accents that are not their own. In this study, we examine this question by using comparative pupil dilation as a measure of cognitive load. Participants from the South of England heard sentences produced in four different accen…
Conservativity in the scope of phonological generalization learning
Phonological alternations that arise due to morphological concatenation often serve to enforce static phonotactic generalizations within the lexicon. Due to this close link, knowledge about alternations and phonotactics are encoded using a single mechanism in constraint-based models like Optimality Theory. Evidence of this link in learning, however, is equivocal. In this study we examine whether learners readily extend a generalization from alter…
Phonetics and Phonology Research (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Phonology (7 works) · Language Development and Disorders (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works)