Publications by Amber Desiree Franklin
Purpose: This study compares goodness and accentedness ratings of speech tokens rated by listener... more Purpose: This study compares goodness and accentedness ratings of speech tokens rated by listeners that are naïve and aware of speakers' native language backgrounds. Listener responses to open-ended questions regarding goodness and accentedness ratings are also examined.
Purpose: Production of speech sound classes in adult language learners is affected by 1) interfer... more Purpose: Production of speech sound classes in adult language learners is affected by 1) interference between the native language (NL) and the target language (TL) and 2) speaker variables such as time speaking English. In this paper we demonstrate how phonological process analysis, an approach typically used in child speech, can be used to characterize adult TL phonological learning.
Method: Sentences produced by two adult Japanese English language learners (ELLs) were transcribed and coded for phoneme accuracy, and analyzed according to the percent occurrence of phonological processes. The results were interpreted relative to a contrastive analysis between Japanese and English phonetic inventories, and developmental norms for monolingual English children.
Results and Implications: In this pilot study, common consonant processes included vocalization, final consonant devoicing and cluster reduction. These are processes commonly observed in the speech of typically developing children. The process analysis can inform clinical approaches to pronunciation training in adult ELLs. For example, the Cycles Approach (Hodson & Padden, 1981) may provide more clinical efficacy than an articulatory approach, where phonemes are targeted individually. Additionally, process analysis can enable clinicians to examine the principles of within-class and across-class generalization in adult pronunciation instruction.
Key Words: Adults, Japanese, ELL, Phonological Processes, Pronunciation Training,
Purpose: This study examines the effectiveness of using goodness ratings and intelligibility scor... more Purpose: This study examines the effectiveness of using goodness ratings and intelligibility scores to document changes in vowel production following pronunciation training. The relationship between listener perceptions of goodness and intelligibility is also examined.
This longitudinal investigation examined the temporal and spectral characteristics of the high fr... more This longitudinal investigation examined the temporal and spectral characteristics of the high front vowels /i/ and /I/ as produced by nine monolingual US English children from 21-33 months. Vowel overlap was quantified in two-dimensional (F1, F2) and three-dimensional (F1, F2, duration) space using Spectral Overlap Assessment Measure (SOAM). These findings were compared with the results from Support Vector Machine (SVM) vowel classification, vowel duration ratios, and measures of effect size, to determine whether a spectral/temporal trading effect existed in the early vowel productions of young children. Children between the ages of 21 and 33 months are highly variable in the way they use spectral and temporal parameters to distinguish between these two adjacent vowels. However, findings pointed to the existence of a spectral/ temporal trading effect when spectral overlap values are relatively high (460%) at 21 and 24 months of age.
Examination of five acoustic parameters (F0, F1, F2, segmental duration, and intensity) allowed c... more Examination of five acoustic parameters (F0, F1, F2, segmental duration, and intensity) allowed comparison of Infant-Directed Speech (IDS), Hyperspeech, and the Lombard reflex. These phenomena have typically been investigated separately, each characterized in terms of one or two acoustic features (e.g., intensity for Lombard speech). The present two-part experiment examined intraspeaker and interspeaker variability in speakers of Jamaican Creole and Jamaican English. IDS and Lombard speech showed similar adjustments in two parameters (F0 and intensity), and IDS and Citation speech showed the greatest spectral differences. This result is important because it shows that while one or two acoustic parameters may be crucial characteristics of a type of exaggerated speech, task production involved the systematic adjustment of a complex set of continuous acoustic parameters. Taken together, the acoustic outcomes for the types of perturbations investigated here allow the tasks to be arranged along a continuum. These adjustments resemble patterns associated with the manipulation of sociolinguistic markers reported in sociophonetic studies of ''style-shifting.'' We argue that the two phenomena may be treated under a unified account of intraspeaker variability that builds upon the sociolinguistic concept of Audience Design. r
Topics in Language Disorders, 2001
... Kovarsky, Dana; Culatta, Barbara; Franklin, Amber; Theadore, Geraldine. ... 1983 ; Philips, 1... more ... Kovarsky, Dana; Culatta, Barbara; Franklin, Amber; Theadore, Geraldine. ... 1983 ; Philips, 1983 ; Shieffelen & Ochs, 1986 ), and clinical discourse ( Damico & Damico, 1997 ; Kovarsky & Duchan, 1997 ; Kovarsky, Kimbarow, & Kastner, 1999 ; Panagos, 1996 ; Simmons-Mackie & ...
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Purpose: This study compares goodness and accentedness ratings of speech tokens rated by listener... more Purpose: This study compares goodness and accentedness ratings of speech tokens rated by listeners that are naïve and aware of speakers' native language backgrounds. Listener responses to open-ended questions regarding goodness and accentedness ratings are also examined.
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Publications by Amber Desiree Franklin
Method: Sentences produced by two adult Japanese English language learners (ELLs) were transcribed and coded for phoneme accuracy, and analyzed according to the percent occurrence of phonological processes. The results were interpreted relative to a contrastive analysis between Japanese and English phonetic inventories, and developmental norms for monolingual English children.
Results and Implications: In this pilot study, common consonant processes included vocalization, final consonant devoicing and cluster reduction. These are processes commonly observed in the speech of typically developing children. The process analysis can inform clinical approaches to pronunciation training in adult ELLs. For example, the Cycles Approach (Hodson & Padden, 1981) may provide more clinical efficacy than an articulatory approach, where phonemes are targeted individually. Additionally, process analysis can enable clinicians to examine the principles of within-class and across-class generalization in adult pronunciation instruction.
Key Words: Adults, Japanese, ELL, Phonological Processes, Pronunciation Training,
Drafts by Amber Desiree Franklin
Method: Sentences produced by two adult Japanese English language learners (ELLs) were transcribed and coded for phoneme accuracy, and analyzed according to the percent occurrence of phonological processes. The results were interpreted relative to a contrastive analysis between Japanese and English phonetic inventories, and developmental norms for monolingual English children.
Results and Implications: In this pilot study, common consonant processes included vocalization, final consonant devoicing and cluster reduction. These are processes commonly observed in the speech of typically developing children. The process analysis can inform clinical approaches to pronunciation training in adult ELLs. For example, the Cycles Approach (Hodson & Padden, 1981) may provide more clinical efficacy than an articulatory approach, where phonemes are targeted individually. Additionally, process analysis can enable clinicians to examine the principles of within-class and across-class generalization in adult pronunciation instruction.
Key Words: Adults, Japanese, ELL, Phonological Processes, Pronunciation Training,