Paul Warren
Biographic Data
| ID | 95017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Warren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Warren |
| SIGNATURE | WARREN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6680-347X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 285 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Acquiring Sounds and Words in a Second Language
In all language acquisition, learners develop a mental lexicon and phonemic inventory through meaningful experiences with language use. However, second language learners have already developed a system of sounds, have created patterns of articulation, and have developed a lexicon. This existing knowledge impacts the acquisition of sounds and words in significant ways that can either facilitate language learning or make it more difficult. For adul…
Continuities in Language Acquisition
Our purpose in writing this text was to bring together research-based understanding of three distinct but highly interrelated types of language acquisition first language acquisition, bilingual acquisition, and second language acquisition. Combining these areas into a single volume provides scope for deeper understanding of all three as well as comparison and contrast among them. This chapter points out that while there are some obvious differenc…
Diverse Contexts of Language Acquisition
Language acquisition is universal everyone learns at least one language and, in many parts of the world, everyone learns more than one. Because language acquisition happens everywhere, the many individual, social, and cultural factors that make us unique also affect how we acquire languages. This chapter recognizes the ways that personal and contextual differences impact how we acquire languages, highlighting the benefit of considering language a…
Developing Structures in a Second Language
The development of second language structures, like that of first language structures, involves information accumulated and revised over time as learners develop grammatical competence more in line with the grammar of the target language. However, in second language acquisition, this process is complicated by the pre-existing grammatical knowledge from the first language. Also, in contrast to childhood monolingual and multilingual language learni…
Emerging Communication in Two or More Languages
Bilingual language use is closely associated with the social world of children and speakers, and the ways in which bilingual children use their languages (with whom, where, and when) are related to the contexts in which children live and learn. By the age of two, bilingual children typically know when to use which language with whom and these abilities continue to develop, with some children acquiring the code-switching patterns of their communit…
Acquiring Sounds and Words in a First Language
Language acquisition research is a highly multidisciplinary field, drawing on theories and methods from linguistics, education, developmental psychology, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, and more. In this chapter, we provide an overview of some of the core theoretical frameworks that have been applied to the study of language acquisition, focusing primarily on theories that have been applied across first language acquisition, bilingual…
Acquiring Sounds and Words in Two or More Languages
In this chapter we discuss the fact that all babies have the capacity to learn more than one language. The processes that bilingual children undergo in the acquisition process can be very different to those of monolingual acquisition, and bilingual children use their languages differently and show different types of competence. We begin by examining how bilingual children develop the ability to differentiate their languages early in the acquisiti…
Developing Structures in Two or More Languages
Multilingual children develop grammar along roughly the same trajectory as monolingual children, but there are some differences in these processes. Children who are exposed to two languages from birth use two complex grammatical systems that seem to develop independently from one another. However, in some instances (where the two languages have similar structures) the languages interact with or influence one another. Such influence or transfer ca…
Emerging Communication in a First Language
The contexts of language acquisition provide children both with data for language analysis and with examples of communicative interaction. Language is a social communicative tool. Understandably, the process of first language acquisition leans heavily on interaction as the context of learning, and the special nature of the interactions between children and their adults scaffolds their learning. Children acquiring language are at the same time acq…
Developing Structures in a First Language
In this chapter we consider the progress of child language from single word utterances to two-word strings and on to multi-word utterances. Children’s development of language structures involves the mastery of two main types of structure: word structure (morphology) and sentence structure (syntax). These are developed at the same time, with development in each reinforcing the other. Children work out the patterns of language largely for themselve…
Introduction to Language Acquisition
In this first chapter, we distinguish the three major types of language acquisition: First language acquisition, bilingual or multilingual acquisition, and second language acquisition. These three types of acquisition will form the basis for the structure of this book. We define each type of language acquisition and consider major research trends and findings as well as broad similarities and differences among each type. We focus on ways that res…
Emerging Communication in a Second Language
The goal of second language acquisition is to develop communicative competence in the second language, to be able to use it in order to communicate with target language speakers appropriately in a wide variety of social contexts. Just as in first language acquisition and bilingual language acquisition, the development of second language communicative competence is closely connected to the contexts of learning and access to authentic, holistic, me…
Theories of Language Acquisition
Language acquisition research is a highly multidisciplinary field, drawing on theories and methods from linguistics, education, developmental psychology, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, and more. In this chapter, we provide an overview of some of the core theoretical frameworks that have been applied to the study of language acquisition, focusing primarily on theories that have been applied across first language acquisition, bilingual…
Learning Language: First Language, Bilingual and Second Language Acquisition
Prompting language learners to guess the meaning of idioms: Do wrong guesses linger
Studies have shown that informing language learners about the literal underpinning of idioms can help them to remember these expressions. It has also been suggested that prompting learners to guess the meaning of lexical items may be beneficial because it can pique their curiosity and promote cognitive engagement. In the case of idioms, the literal underpinnings can be used as hints to improve the chances of successful inferencing. Even so, some …
The Effects of Contrast on Correlation Perception in Scatterplots
Scatterplots are common data visualizations that can be used to communicate a range of ideas, the most intensively studied being the correlation between two variables. Despite their ubiquity, people typically do not perceive correlations between variables accurately from scatterplots, tending to underestimate the strength of the relationship displayed. Here we describe a two-experiment study in which we adjust the visual contrast of scatterplot p…
Increasing use of multi-word expressions in conversation through a fluency workshop
This quasi-experimental study investigated the extent to which explicit classroom intervention helped English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in Japan to use multi-word expressions (MWEs) fluently in conversation. Over six weeks, an experimental group (n = 65) was encouraged to notice, practise, and produce 30 MWEs (e.g., I think I will, would you like to) through fluency workshop activities including shadowing, dictogloss and role-play. A c…
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory
When a sentence is produced with contrastive prosodic prominence, the word that carries the prominence becomes more salient, and alternatives to that word are usually implied. In processing, this implies that focused words and their alternatives should be more strongly activated. Previous research on focus processing has primarily been confined to Germanic languages. The current paper reports on two experiments investigating the role of prosodic …
Intonation Systems Across Varieties of English
This chapter focuses on the structure and systematicity underlying the expression of intonation in varieties of English. Phonologically, this involves tones and clusters of tones with associations to heads and edges of prosodic domains, functionally highlighting and delimiting units within these domains. Phonetically, it involves pitch and its acoustic correlate, in addition to other phonetic parameters that contribute towards structuring speech,…
Two Concepts of Populism
Maori English: Phonology
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Quality and quantity in New Zealand English vowel contrasts
Acoustic analysis of word-list and sentence data from a database of spoken New Zealand English is used to address the suggestion that a number of vowel contrasts in this variety are moving towards a quantity-based distinction. Data from 73 speakers across three age groups and two sexes are analysed, for a total of almost 6,000 vowel tokens. The move to a quantity distinction is confirmed for thestrut-startcontrast. In the case ofdressandfleece, y…
Does adding pictures to glosses enhance vocabulary uptake from reading
Karl Marx and Wilt Chamberlain, or: Luck Egalitarianism, Exploitation, and the Clean Path to Capitalism Argument
In Defense of the Marxian Theory of Exploitation: Thoughts on Roemer, Cohen, and Others
Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress
Learning Language: First Language, Bilingual and Second Language Acquisition
Intonational Disambiguation in Sentence Production and Comprehension
L2 Vocabulary Learning From Reading: Explicit and Tacit Lexical Knowledge and the Role of Learner and Item Variables
This study investigates acquisition of second language (L2) vocabulary from reading a connected authentic text. Advanced and upper‐intermediate L2 (English) participants read a long expository text for general understanding, with embedded critical vocabulary items (pseudowords). Explicit knowledge of the critical items was examined using a meaning generation task, while their tacit knowledge was probed using form and semantic priming in lexical d…
Pitching it differently in New Zealand English: Speaker sex and intonation patterns
Patterns of late rising in New Zealand English: Intonational variation or intonational change
A combination of observational and experimental data from recent research into the intonation of New Zealand English highlights generational differences in rising intonation patterns. As well as a general increase in the incidence of rising intonation in statement utterances, the data reveal a shift from late rises in mid-age speakers to earlier rise onsets in younger speakers. These differences are discussed in the context of the intonational ph…
Does adding pictures to glosses enhance vocabulary uptake from reading
Short-term Exposure to One Dialect Affects Processing of Another
It is well established that speakers accommodate in speech production. Recent work has shown a similar effect in perception—speech perception is affected by a listener’s beliefs about the speaker. In this paper, we explore the consequences of such perceptual accommodation for experiments in speech perception and lexical access. Our interest is whether perceptual accommodation to one speaker—the experimenter who meets participants, for example— mi…
Careful Who You Talk to: An Effect of Experimenter Identity on the Production of the Near/SQUARE Merger in New Zealand English
This paper reports on results from a production experiment conducted in New Zealand, where the diphthongs and are involved in a merger-in-progress. The results suggest that the cognitive status of and word pairs as being the ‘same’ or ‘different’ is not entirely related to their production. This status could be affected by functional load: words that could lead to contextual ambiguity may seem more different than those for which the distinction i…
New Zealand English
In this illustration, we present a transcription and discussion of the variety of English spoken by people of European descent in New Zealand. Locally, such people are referred to as being Pākehā, using the Māori word. Pākehā speech is illustrated here in the speech of three educated women. Thus some of the features which might be expected from New Zealanders do not occur in these recordings, although the speakers are all clearly New Zealanders
Phonetic influences on the intelligibility of conversational speech
Quality and quantity in New Zealand English vowel contrasts
Acoustic analysis of word-list and sentence data from a database of spoken New Zealand English is used to address the suggestion that a number of vowel contrasts in this variety are moving towards a quantity-based distinction. Data from 73 speakers across three age groups and two sexes are analysed, for a total of almost 6,000 vowel tokens. The move to a quantity distinction is confirmed for thestrut-startcontrast. In the case ofdressandfleece, y…
Issues in the Study of Intonation in Language Varieties
Some key issues in the study of intonation in language varieties are presented and discussed with reference to recent research on the intonation of New Zealand English. The particular issues that are highlighted include the determination of the intonational phonological categories of a language variety, and the attribution of varietal differences as realizational differences between varieties or as systemic differences in the categories found to …
Should Marxists Be Liberal Egalitarians
Public Infrastructure in Canada, 1961-2002
Work by Aschauer (1989) triggered a debate in the United States on the role played by public capital in determining productivity and growth; more recently, infrastructure has become an issue in the Canadian public policy debate. This paper sheds some light on this debate by addressing three questions: (i) How large is the stock of public infrastructure in Canada? (ii) What are the main components of that infrastructure? (iii) How has that infrast…
Increasing use of multi-word expressions in conversation through a fluency workshop
This quasi-experimental study investigated the extent to which explicit classroom intervention helped English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in Japan to use multi-word expressions (MWEs) fluently in conversation. Over six weeks, an experimental group (n = 65) was encouraged to notice, practise, and produce 30 MWEs (e.g., I think I will, would you like to) through fluency workshop activities including shadowing, dictogloss and role-play. A c…
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory
When a sentence is produced with contrastive prosodic prominence, the word that carries the prominence becomes more salient, and alternatives to that word are usually implied. In processing, this implies that focused words and their alternatives should be more strongly activated. Previous research on focus processing has primarily been confined to Germanic languages. The current paper reports on two experiments investigating the role of prosodic …
La construction du récit de « Death Wish » et la manipulation du spectateur
ce sont les thmes, les mythes, les personnages, les courants culturels et sociaux, les valeurs traditionnelles et les dterminants conomiques qui sous-tendent le cinma populaire amricain. La revue amricaine, Journal of Popular Film and Tlvision exprime bien cette orientation sociologique de la critique cinmatographique amricaine qui, en dfinitive, reprend son compte le fameux 5 W's de Harold D. Lasswell : Who says what, in which channel, to whom, …
La paternité revisitée de F.-W. Murnau et de Fritz Lang
Présentation
Freddy Buache, Le Cinéma Allemand (1918-1933), Bibliothèque du Cinéma, 5 continents Hatier, 1984, 128 p
Freddy Buache, Le Cinéma Allemand (1918-1933), Bibliothèque du Cinéma, 5 continents Hatier, 1984, 128 p.. Un article de la revue Études littéraires (Théâtre et cinéma : un miroir de l’Allemagne) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Theatre et cinema: Un miroir de l'Allemagne
Présentation
Yves Lever, Histoire générale du cinéma au Québec
L'image, entre l'idéologie et la culture
Phonetic influences on the intelligibility of conversational speech
Should Marxists Be Liberal Egalitarians
Intonational Disambiguation in Sentence Production and Comprehension
Pitching it differently in New Zealand English: Speaker sex and intonation patterns
Public Infrastructure in Canada, 1961-2002
Work by Aschauer (1989) triggered a debate in the United States on the role played by public capital in determining productivity and growth; more recently, infrastructure has become an issue in the Canadian public policy debate. This paper sheds some light on this debate by addressing three questions: (i) How large is the stock of public infrastructure in Canada? (ii) What are the main components of that infrastructure? (iii) How has that infrast…
Patterns of late rising in New Zealand English: Intonational variation or intonational change
A combination of observational and experimental data from recent research into the intonation of New Zealand English highlights generational differences in rising intonation patterns. As well as a general increase in the incidence of rising intonation in statement utterances, the data reveal a shift from late rises in mid-age speakers to earlier rise onsets in younger speakers. These differences are discussed in the context of the intonational ph…
Special Issue: Intonation in Language Varieties
Issues in the Study of Intonation in Language Varieties
Some key issues in the study of intonation in language varieties are presented and discussed with reference to recent research on the intonation of New Zealand English. The particular issues that are highlighted include the determination of the intonational phonological categories of a language variety, and the attribution of varietal differences as realizational differences between varieties or as systemic differences in the categories found to …
Imitation et récupération d'Eisenstein
L'approche révolutionnnaire d'Eisenstein a influencé le cinéma commercial occidental: des créateurs de formes comme Hitchcock, De Palma, Coppola et Godard l'ont imitée, et le cinéaste populiste américain Frank Capra l'a reprise et transformée
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress
New Zealand English
In this illustration, we present a transcription and discussion of the variety of English spoken by people of European descent in New Zealand. Locally, such people are referred to as being Pākehā, using the Māori word. Pākehā speech is illustrated here in the speech of three educated women. Thus some of the features which might be expected from New Zealanders do not occur in these recordings, although the speakers are all clearly New Zealanders
Careful Who You Talk to: An Effect of Experimenter Identity on the Production of the Near/SQUARE Merger in New Zealand English
This paper reports on results from a production experiment conducted in New Zealand, where the diphthongs and are involved in a merger-in-progress. The results suggest that the cognitive status of and word pairs as being the ‘same’ or ‘different’ is not entirely related to their production. This status could be affected by functional load: words that could lead to contextual ambiguity may seem more different than those for which the distinction i…
Short-term Exposure to One Dialect Affects Processing of Another
It is well established that speakers accommodate in speech production. Recent work has shown a similar effect in perception—speech perception is affected by a listener’s beliefs about the speaker. In this paper, we explore the consequences of such perceptual accommodation for experiments in speech perception and lexical access. Our interest is whether perceptual accommodation to one speaker—the experimenter who meets participants, for example— mi…
Jeffrey Reiman, As Free and as Just as Possible: The Theory of Marxian Liberalism
L2 Vocabulary Learning From Reading: Explicit and Tacit Lexical Knowledge and the Role of Learner and Item Variables
This study investigates acquisition of second language (L2) vocabulary from reading a connected authentic text. Advanced and upper‐intermediate L2 (English) participants read a long expository text for general understanding, with embedded critical vocabulary items (pseudowords). Explicit knowledge of the critical items was examined using a meaning generation task, while their tacit knowledge was probed using form and semantic priming in lexical d…
In Defense of the Marxian Theory of Exploitation: Thoughts on Roemer, Cohen, and Others
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