http://hdl.handle.net/10900/64864 2026-05-12T12:23:07Z 2026-05-12T12:23:07Z Zimmermann, Julia http://hdl.handle.net/10900/68949 2019-10-30T04:38:50Z 2016-03-22T00:00:00Z

Morphological status and acoustic realization: Is there a difference between Bra[d] Pitt and a grille[d] cheese omelet, or between Kate Mo[s] and killer robot[s]? Zimmermann, Julia This paper investigates the acoustic realization of morphemic and non-morphemic S and D in English. Two corpus studies are reported that examine the effect of morphological structure on fricative center of gravity and on stop duration. Multiple linear regression is used to isolate these effects. The results demonstrate the importance of morphological structure in speech production

2016-03-22T00:00:00Z Evert, Stefan Arppe, Antti http://hdl.handle.net/10900/67757 2019-10-30T05:06:27Z 2016-01-18T00:00:00Z

Some theoretical and experimental observerations on naive discriminative learning (Updated version) Evert, Stefan; Arppe, Antti Natural language use is full of choices among multiple possible alternatives, whether phones, words, or constructions, which are influenced by a large number of contextual factors, and which rather exhibit asymptotic, imperfect tendencies favoring one or more of the alternatives, instead of single, categorical, perfect choices. This contrasts with item-by-item learning in simple controlled experiments which typically have been modelled by the Rescorla-Wagner equations. We find the former "messy" types of problems as a key area of interest in modeling and understanding language use, and consequently consider the application of the Rescorla-Wagner equations in the form of a Naive Discriminative Learning classifier to such complex phenomena of considerable utility in linguistic research. This is an updated version. (Previous version: http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-8620)

2016-01-18T00:00:00Z Rosseel, Laura Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk http://hdl.handle.net/10900/67222 2019-10-30T04:58:32Z 2015-11-04T00:00:00Z

Can social psychological attitude measures be used to study language attitudes? - A case study exploring the Personalized Implicit Association Test Rosseel, Laura; Speelman, Dirk; Geeraerts, Dirk In the field of social psychology, a wide range of implicit attitude measures have recently been developed. These measures have hardly been used in linguistic attitude research so far. This paper presents a case study exploring the potential of one of these social psychological measures, the Personalized Implicit Association Test, in order to find out whether it can be useful for the study of language attitudes. In the case study, the Personalized Implicit Association Test is applied to measure attitudes towards regional varieties of Dutch in Belgium and Standard Belgian Dutch.

2015-11-04T00:00:00Z Franco, Karlien Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman, Dirk http://hdl.handle.net/10900/67221 2019-10-30T04:58:37Z 2015-11-04T00:00:00Z

The influence of semantic features on lexical geographical variation Franco, Karlien; Geeraerts, Dirk; Speelman, Dirk In this paper, we investigate the influence of semantic concept features on lexical geographical variation. More specifically, we take an onomasiological approach to inquire into the effect of concept vagueness, salience, affect and semantic field. We use quantitative operationalizations of these features as predictors in a linear regression analysis. Our response variable is a composite variable that takes into account the number of variants per concept and the degree to which the concepts are scattered across geographical space in a heterogeneous way. Our model reveals that vaguer, less salient and non-neutral concepts show significantly more variation and that the lexical variants for these concepts are scattered across geographical space in a less homogeneous way. We also find differences between semantic fields.

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