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Proceedings Exling 2016 International Speech Communication Association ExLing 2016 Proceedings of 7th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics 27 June – 2 July 2016, Saint Petersburg, Russia Edited by Antonis Botinis Saint Petersburg National and Kapodistrian State University University of Athens ExLing 2016 Proceedings of 7th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics Ebook ISSN: 2529-1092 Ebook ISBN: 978-960-466-161-9 Copyright © 2016 Antonis Botinis Foreword This volume includes the proceedings of ExLing 2012, the 5th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, in Athens, Greece, 27-29 August 2012. The first conference was organised in Athens, in 2006, under the auspices of ISCA and the University of Athens and is regularly repeated thereafter, including the last one in Paris, in 2011. In accordance with the spirit of this ExLing 2012 conference, we were once again gathered in Athens to continue our discussion on the directions of linguistic research and the use of experimental methodologies in order to gain theoretical and interdisciplinary knowledge. We are happy to see that our initial attempt has gained ground and is becoming an established forum of a new generation of linguists. As in our previous conferences, our colleagues are coming from a variety of different parts of the world and we wish them a rewarding exchange of scientific achievements and expertise. This is indeed the core of the ExLing events, which promote new ideas and methodologies in an international context. We would like to thank all participants for their contributions as well as ISCA and the University of Athens. We also thank our colleagues from the International Advisory Committee and our students from the University of Athens for their assistance. Antonis Botinis Contents Tutorial papers Remanence of sentence prosody in Romance languages ............................................. 1 Philippe Martin Rich Reduction: Sound-segment residuals and the encoding of communicative functions along the hypo-hyper scale ........................................................................ 11 Oliver Niebuhr Research papers Visual search strategies and letter position encoding in Russian ............................. 25 Svetlana Alexeeva Emergence of word prosody in (Seoul) Korean ......................................................... 29 Angeliki Athanasopoulou, Irene Vogel .............................................................. 29 Voice Activity Detector (VAD) based on long-term phonetic features ...................... 33 Andrey Barabanov, Daniil Kocharov, Sergey Salishev, Pavel Skrelin, Mikhail Moiseev The identification of two Algerian Arabic dialects by prosodic focus ....................... 37 Ismaël Benali Intonation and polar questions in Greek revisited .................................................... 41 Antonis Botinis, Anthi Chaida, Olga Nikolaenkova, Elina Nirgianaki The imprint of disposition in social interaction ......................................................... 45 Mark Campana Intonation and polar questions in Greek ................................................................... 51 Anthi Chaida, Angeliki Sotiriou, Athina Kontostavlaki Contextual predictions and syntactic analysis: the case of ambiguity resolution ..... 55 Daria Chernova, Veronika Prokopenya Vocal fatigue in voice professionals: collecting data and acoustic analysis ............. 59 Karina Evgrafova, Vera Evdokimova, Pavel Skrelin, Tatiana Chukaeva Creating a subcorpus of a heritage language on the example of Yiddish ................. 63 Valentina Fedchenko, Ilia Uchitel Affricates in the spontaneous speech of Aromanians in Turia ................................... 67 Anastasia V. Kharlamova L1 transfer, definiteness and specificity of determiners in L2 English ...................... 71 Sviatlana Karpava Writing-based wordforms vs. spoken wordforms....................................................... 75 Vadim Kasevich, Iuliia Menshikova ii Contents On the buildup of an integrated database for the formal description of grammars for the hearers .......................................................................................... 79 Vadim Kasevich, Iuliia Menshikova, Maria Khokhlova, Elena Shuvalova, Anna Lastochkina How to write an oral dialect or about some problems of the Tsakonian Corpus ...... 83 Maxim Kisilier Some aspects of /r/ articulation in French Vocal Speech .......................................... 87 Ulyana Kochetkova Different acoustic cues for emphasis in teaching English word stress to Hong Kong Cantonese ESL learners of different proficiencies ........................................... 91 Wience Wing Sze Lai, Manwa Lawrence Ng Cognitive approach to translation and interpreting teaching methods ..................... 95 Julia Levi Perception of reduced words: Chunking and predictability ...................................... 99 David Lorenz, David Tizón-Couto Neurological state manifestation in infants’ and children’s voice features............. 103 Elena Lyakso, Olga Frolova Features of written texts of people with different profiles of Lateral Brain Organization of Functions (on the Basis of RusNeuroPsych Corpus) ..................... 107 Tatiana Litvinova, Ekaterina Ryzhkova, Olga Litvinova Semantic differential as a method in empirical investigation of Self-Image as father ....................................................................................................................... 111 Robert Manerov, Kristina Manerova Automatic assignment of labels in Topic Modelling for Russian Corpora .............. 115 Aliya Mirzagitova, Olga Mitrofanova The time course of sociolinguistic influences on wordlikeness judgments .............. 119 James Myers, Tsung-Ying Chen The function of olfactory experience in reasoning: An empirical study .................. 123 Katalin Nagy Gender Features in German: Evidence for Underspecification .............................. 127 Andreas Opitz, Thomas Pechmann Distributional analysis of Russian lexical errors .................................................... 131 Polina Panicheva Serbian pitch accents in tri-syllables produced by Serbian and Russian speakers ................................................................................................................... 135 Ekaterina Panova Contents iii Effect of saliency and L1-L2 similarity on the processing of English past tense by French learners: an ERP study ........................................................................... 139 Maud Pélissier, Jennifer Krzonowski, Emmanuel Ferragne Phonostylistic study of Spanish-speaking politicians: Populist vs. Conservative ... 143 Carmen Patricia Pérez Experimental L2 text production with WinPitch LTL .............................................. 147 Darya Sandryhaila-Groth Exploring prosodic convergence in Italian game dialogue ..................................... 151 Michelina Savino, Loredana Lapertosa, Alessandro Caffò, Mario Refice Syllable cueing and segmental overlap effects in tip-of-the-tongue resolution ....... 155 Nina Jeanette Sauer An experimental study of English accent perception ............................................... 159 Elena Shamina Phonetic words duration simulation using Deep Neural Networks ......................... 163 Alexander Shipilo Transcription: what is meant by accuracy and objectivity? .................................... 167 Pavel Skrelin, Nina Volskaya Grammatical change and hindcast model statistics – A comparison between Medieval French and Brazilian Portuguese ............................................................ 171 Eduardo Correa Soares The Phonetics of Russian North Bylinas.................................................................. 175 Svetlana Tananaiko, Marina Agafonova Association experiment in practice of linguistic and cultural dominants research ................................................................................................................... 179 Svetlana Takhtarova, Diana Sabirova Filled pauses and lengthenings detection using machine learning techniques ....... 183 Vasilisa Verkhodanova, Vladimir Shapranov, Alexey Karpov Psycholinguistic evidence for the composite group ................................................. 187 Irene Vogel, Angeliki Athanasopoulou Remanence of sentence prosody in Romance languages Philippe Martin LLF, UFR Linguistique, Université Paris Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité Abstract Romance languages uses surprisingly similar melodic contours to encode the sentence prosodic structure. The fact that these contours are governed by similar prosodic grammars and that similar stress rules are also applicable to these languages (except on French deprived of lexical stress) suggests that these phonological facts are inherited from Latin without much change, despite the constant evolution occurred during twenty centuries. Key words: intonation, prosody, Romance languages, stress, prosodic grammar Introduction Sentence intonation is always present in the linguistic communication, even in silent reading. We cannot process language, whether in oral or written form, without decoding the prosodic structure intended by the speaker or recover (or approximate) the intonation intended by the writer. Indeed, due to memory limitations, it is not possible to retain long lists of objects such as words or syntagms without structuring these lists by some hierarchical grouping. Remembering large numbers or long lists of digits as found in telephone or credit card numbers
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