Number and Syllabification of Following Consonants Influence Use of Long Versus Short Vowels in English Disyllables.
Number and Syllabification of Following Consonants Influence Use of Long Versus Short Vowels in English Disyllables.
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以下辅音的数量和音节影响英语双音节中长元音与短元音的使用。
DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2022.104399
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Hensley,Kayla
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作者：
Treiman,Rebecca;Kessler,Brett;Hensley,Kayla
英语中的拼音到发音翻译对于元音来说尤其复杂。例如，<a>的发音包括<Paper>和<mareal>的长元音和<仙人掌>和<happy>的短元音。我们通过对英语中单中辅音和辅音序列的双音节单词的分析和三项行为研究，考察了与长短元音使用有关的因素。在这三项研究中，共有119名大学生使用了非元音结构。词汇分析表明，中辅音的数量及其音节对元音长度都有影响。参与者受到这些方面的语境的影响，其中一些并不是作为阅读教学的一部分明确教授的。尽管这些结果指向内隐统计学习，但根据我们对双音节单词中拼写与发音对应的词汇统计，参与者在单个中辅音之前产生的长元音比预期的要少。根据这些统计数据，参与者在两个完全相同的辅音字母之前产生的长元音也比预期的要多。我们考虑了这些结果的原因，并使用行为数据来测试两种拼写到语音转换的模型。
Spelling-to-sound translation in English is particularly complex for vowels. For example, the pronunciations of ‹a› include the long vowel of ‹paper› and ‹sacred› and the short vowel of ‹cactus› and ‹happy›. We examined the factors that are associated with use of long versus short vowels by conducting analyses of English disyllabic words with single medial consonants and consonant sequences and three behavioral studies in which a total of 119 university students pronounced nonwords with these structures. The vocabulary analyses show that both the number of medial consonants and their syllabification influence vowel length. Participants were influenced by these aspects of context, some of which are not explicitly taught as a part of reading instruction. Although these results point to implicit statistical learning, participants produced fewer long vowels before single medial consonants than anticipated based on our vocabulary statistics for spelling-to-sound correspondences in disyllabic words. Participants also produced more long vowels before two identical consonant letters than anticipated given these statistics. We consider the reasons for these outcomes, and we also use the behavioral data to test two models of spelling-to-sound translation.