In this dissertation, I propose a new method of deriving natural classes that is motivated by the phonological patterning of post-velar consonants (uvulars, pharyngeals, epiglottals, and glottals). These data come from a survey of the phonemic inventories, phonological processes…
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A great deal of current work in phonology discusses the functional grounding of phonological patterns. This dissertation proposes that functional factors can motivate phonological constraints in two ways. ‘Functionally grounded’ constraints are induced from learners' immediate l…
Acoustic and perceptual correlates of emphasis, a secondary articulation in the posterior vocal tract, in Urban Jordanian Arabic were studied. CVC monosyllables and CV.CVC bisyllables with emphatic and plain target consonants in word-initial, word-medial and word-final positions…
This dissertation investigates two issues that deal with the physical attributes of a class of speech sounds made with a constriction in the back part of the vocal tract, called the gutturals (they include the uvulars, uvularized, pharyngeal, and laryngeal sounds). The first iss…
Language teachers are often asked, 'Will I ever be able to sound like a native?'. Through research, experience, and long-term teaching, the answer is almost always, 'If you did not learn the language as a child, then it is almost impossible to sound like a native.' Many studies …
This dissertation identifies and contributes to filling several gaps in research on stance, with an eye toward the role of stancetaking as a means of identity construction. The case in focus is one at a cultural border, with data coming from relatively unstructured interviews I …
This paper examines the acoustics of underspecification and vowel harmony (VH) in Turkish. In Turkish, vowels in suffixes that change according to VH rules are widely believed to be underspecified for rounding and/or backness. Underspecification has previously been thought to pe…
This study investigated the production of the English voiceless bilabial stop /p/ in three word positions (initial, medial, and final). By a group of 20 male and female ESL Saudi Arabian learners in the United States. The stimulus of this work was a list of 20 English words with…
This study investigated two variables in relation to American English flapping among Saudi speakers. These two variables were gender and phonetic environment of flapping. For the purpose of the study, 20 Saudi university students, 10 male and 10 female, were chosen. In addition,…
This thesis examines an understudied nasalization rule in Hoocąk, an endangered Siouan language, whereby the alveolar flap becomes nasalized after nasal vowels. Impressionistic descriptions suggest that this has developed in two ways over time: (1) the output was [ɾ͂] but is not …
This dissertation examines how lexical tone can be represented with articulatory gestures, and the ways a gestural perspective can inform synchronic and diachronic analysis of the phonology and phonetics of a language. Tibetan is chosen an example of a language with interacting …
In this dissertation, I investigate the phonology, phonetics, and historical development of Santa María Gueinagati Zapotec (GZ), an Otomanguean language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. My description of the phonology of GZ focuses of the contrasts the occur in the root, which, in its …
This research examines the history of the North American deaf community over the past century and how the influence of Alexander Graham Bell, eugenics, and Oralism shaped the course of deaf history. Through the control of social, political, and education policies, the hearing pu…
The current study examined the change in articulatory patterns when speakers were asked to increase and decrease their speaking rate by matching metered and rhythmic audio recordings and by matching metered and rhythmic audiovisual recordings. There were 10 participants, five ma…
This dissertation presents in-depth description and analysis the Zophei sound system within the context of the closely-related Maraic languages. Zophei (or Zyphe, ISO 639-3 ZYP), a previously undocumented member of the Maraic branch of Kuki-Chin (or South-Central Tibeto-Burman) …