Phil J Howson
Biographic Data
| ID | 9294452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phil J Howson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phil J |
| FAMILY NAME | Howson |
| SIGNATURE | HOWSON P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5810-6700 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The perception of anticipatory nasality in English, French, and German
The goal of the current paper is to study the perception of long-distance anticipatory nasality in three languages – American English, Northern Metropolitan French, and Standard German. The study thereby links explicitly to our previous production study which was able to show that nasality can, in all three languages, spread beyond the prenasal vowel in CVN words. Nonetheless, there were significant differences between languages in terms of the t…
Polish speakers’ acquisition of L2 German high vowels
German has a set of high front rounded vowels, /yː, ʏ/, that are difficult for second language (L2) learners to acquire. They are often misperceived by L2 learners as back vowels. Many models explain the initial perceptual assimilation of L2 segments into first language (L1) segments, but it is unclear how acquisition occurs in the articulatory domain. This study investigates the acoustic-articulatory acquisition of high vowels in German by L1 sp…
Acoustic-Perceptual Factors Both Maintain and Account for the Rarity of the Czech Trill-Fricative
Czech has a sibilant inventory that contrasts at three places of articulation: Alveolar, a pre-post-alveolar, and palato-alveolar. The specific aim of this study is to examine the perception of the typologically rare Czech sibilant inventory and to determine whether acoustic-perceptual characteristics play a role in the maintenance of the Czech trill-fricative. These results are compared to a more common three-way sibilant inventory, Polish. Nati…
An acoustic study of Tetsǫ́t’ıné stress: Iambic stress in a quantity-sensitive tone language
This paper presents both distributional and acoustic phonetic evidence for iambic stress in Tetsǫ́t'ıné (ISO: CHP), a Dene (Athapaskan) language with contrastive vowel length and four contrastive tones. In our acoustic study, we find that the primary correlate of stress in Tetsǫ́t'ıné is duration, whereas intensity plays a secondary but statistically significant role. There was no statistically significant effect on F0 in our results. We discuss …
Upper Sorbian
Sorbian is a West Slavic language spoken in eastern Germany, in Saxony and Brandenburg near the borders of Poland and the Czech Republic, and is recognized as an endangered language by UNESCO (Moseley 2012). It is commonly referred to as Sorbian in English, but has historically been referred to as both Wendish and Lusatian. The Sorbian speech area used to expand from its northernmost point approximately 50 km south-east of Berlin to its southernm…
Examination of the grooving patterns of the Czech trill-fricative
Czech trills revisited: An ultrasound EGG and acoustic study
The Czech language has two trills produced with the anterior tongue, represented in the Czech orthography as /r/ and /ř/. The phonetic characterization of the latter trill, currently transcribed in the IPA as [], has been especially controversial. The present study uses ultrasound, electroglottography (EGG) and acoustic evidence to examine these trills, with the particular aim of achieving a more phonetically grounded representation of /ř/. In th…
Czech trills revisited: An ultrasound EGG and acoustic study
The Czech language has two trills produced with the anterior tongue, represented in the Czech orthography as /r/ and /ř/. The phonetic characterization of the latter trill, currently transcribed in the IPA as [], has been especially controversial. The present study uses ultrasound, electroglottography (EGG) and acoustic evidence to examine these trills, with the particular aim of achieving a more phonetically grounded representation of /ř/. In th…
Upper Sorbian
Sorbian is a West Slavic language spoken in eastern Germany, in Saxony and Brandenburg near the borders of Poland and the Czech Republic, and is recognized as an endangered language by UNESCO (Moseley 2012). It is commonly referred to as Sorbian in English, but has historically been referred to as both Wendish and Lusatian. The Sorbian speech area used to expand from its northernmost point approximately 50 km south-east of Berlin to its southernm…
Examination of the grooving patterns of the Czech trill-fricative
Czech trills revisited: An ultrasound EGG and acoustic study
The Czech language has two trills produced with the anterior tongue, represented in the Czech orthography as /r/ and /ř/. The phonetic characterization of the latter trill, currently transcribed in the IPA as [], has been especially controversial. The present study uses ultrasound, electroglottography (EGG) and acoustic evidence to examine these trills, with the particular aim of achieving a more phonetically grounded representation of /ř/. In th…
Examination of the grooving patterns of the Czech trill-fricative
Upper Sorbian
Sorbian is a West Slavic language spoken in eastern Germany, in Saxony and Brandenburg near the borders of Poland and the Czech Republic, and is recognized as an endangered language by UNESCO (Moseley 2012). It is commonly referred to as Sorbian in English, but has historically been referred to as both Wendish and Lusatian. The Sorbian speech area used to expand from its northernmost point approximately 50 km south-east of Berlin to its southernm…
Acoustic-Perceptual Factors Both Maintain and Account for the Rarity of the Czech Trill-Fricative
Czech has a sibilant inventory that contrasts at three places of articulation: Alveolar, a pre-post-alveolar, and palato-alveolar. The specific aim of this study is to examine the perception of the typologically rare Czech sibilant inventory and to determine whether acoustic-perceptual characteristics play a role in the maintenance of the Czech trill-fricative. These results are compared to a more common three-way sibilant inventory, Polish. Nati…
An acoustic study of Tetsǫ́t’ıné stress: Iambic stress in a quantity-sensitive tone language
This paper presents both distributional and acoustic phonetic evidence for iambic stress in Tetsǫ́t'ıné (ISO: CHP), a Dene (Athapaskan) language with contrastive vowel length and four contrastive tones. In our acoustic study, we find that the primary correlate of stress in Tetsǫ́t'ıné is duration, whereas intensity plays a secondary but statistically significant role. There was no statistically significant effect on F0 in our results. We discuss …
The perception of anticipatory nasality in English, French, and German
The goal of the current paper is to study the perception of long-distance anticipatory nasality in three languages – American English, Northern Metropolitan French, and Standard German. The study thereby links explicitly to our previous production study which was able to show that nasality can, in all three languages, spread beyond the prenasal vowel in CVN words. Nonetheless, there were significant differences between languages in terms of the t…
Polish speakers’ acquisition of L2 German high vowels
German has a set of high front rounded vowels, /yː, ʏ/, that are difficult for second language (L2) learners to acquire. They are often misperceived by L2 learners as back vowels. Many models explain the initial perceptual assimilation of L2 segments into first language (L1) segments, but it is unclear how acquisition occurs in the articulatory domain. This study investigates the acoustic-articulatory acquisition of high vowels in German by L1 sp…
Linguistics (5 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (5 works) · Czech (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Speech recognition (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · German (2 works)