Geminate Typology and the Perception of Consonant Length

In this project I am researching how perception of consonant length is affected by contextual factors, such as position in the word (word-initial, word-final, or word-medial), prosodic properties of the syllable (stress), and adjacent sounds, their sonority in particular. The ultimate goal is to establish whether a connection exists between the observed perceptual patterns and the crosslinguistic positional typology of geminate consonants. Current results suggest that the crosslinguistic preference for short-long consonantal contrasts in the intervocalic position may be related to a relatively greater ease with which durational contrasts are perceived in this environment. 

Dissertation

Dmitrieva, O. (2012) Geminate typology and the perception of consonant duration. Stanford University Dissertation. [pdf]

Papers and Presentations

Dmitrieva, O. (2015) The role of context sonority in the typology and perceptibility of geminate consonants. Keynote address at the Workshop on Geminate Consonants across the World, ICPhS2015 Satellite meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. [pdf]

Dmitrieva, O. (2014) Sonority of adjacent segments in the perception of durational distinctions. Poster presented at the 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, Rhode Island. [pdf]

Dmitrieva, O. (2012) Contrast dispersion and the positional typology of geminates. Presented at the 20st Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK. [pdf]

Dmitrieva, O. (2011) Asymmetries between production and perception of consonant length. Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. [pdf]

Dmitrieva, O. (2011) Contextual factors and language experience in the perception of consonant length. The 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh.

Dmitrieva, O. (2010) Universals in the distribution of geminate consonants and perception of consonant length. Conference on Phonetic Universals, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

Dmitrieva, O. (2010) Perception of consonant length is universal: Evidence from American and Russian listeners. The 84nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore. [poster]

Dmitrieva, O. (2009) Geminate typology and perception of consonant length. The 83nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco.

Dmitrieva, O. (2007) Consonant length in Russian: factors affecting variability in production. Workshop on Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology, Stanford. [poster]

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