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| Articulatory Setting |
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Articulatory setting is the underlying setting of the articulators (i.e., the tongue, lips, jaw, etc.) during speech. In his PhD research, Dr. Wilson showed that the articulatory settings for French and English differ significantly. We are now measuring the articulatory setting for Japanese and determining whether the explicit teaching of the differences between English and Japanese articulatory setting affects EFL students' pronunciation. |
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| ・Articulatory Settings of French and English Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers |
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This dissertation investigates articulatory setting (AS), a language's underlying or default posture of the articulators (i.e., the tongue, jaw, and lips). Inter-speech posture (ISP) of the articulators (the position of the articulators when they are motionless during inter-utterance pauses) is used as a measure of AS in Canadian English and Quebecois French. The dissertation reports two experiments using a combination of Optotrak and ultrasound imaging to test whether ISP is language specific in both monolingual and bilingual speakers, whether it is affected by phonetic context, and whether it is influenced by speech mode (monolingual or bilingual).
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