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- ItemOpen AccessThe acquisition of Yucatecan Maya prosody(University of Calgary, 1996-01) Archibald, JohnIn this paper I'm going to talk about some data that I gathered and analyzed while I was in Mexico. I had the opportunity to get involved with a research project at the Autonomous University of the Yucatan, headed by Dra. Barbara Pfeiler, that was looking at the acquisition of Yucatecan Maya. The Maya language family consists of 31 languages, spoken mainly in Guatemala and the south of Mexico by about 3.5 million people. Yucatecan Maya is estimated to have about 600,000 speakers. The influence of Spanish in the area is, of course, strong. Many of the people are bilingual and the issue of maintaining the Mayan language in the next generation is a hot educational topic. This will become an important factor when we look at some of the prosodic changes that seem to have happened to YM in the past century.
- ItemOpen AccessArabic/English bilingual proficiency in language minority students(2000) Blair, Leslie Alison; Archibald, John
- ItemOpen AccessChain shift in phonological acquisition(2005) Jesney, Karen Christine; Archibald, John
- ItemOpen AccessConflict resolution in the Spanish sla of Yucatec ejectives: l1, l2 and universal constraints(2011) Gonzalez-Poot, Antonio Arcenio; Archibald, John
- ItemOpen AccessCue-based learning and the acquisition of pre-vocalic clusters(2005) Vanderweide, Teresa M.; Archibald, John
- ItemOpen AccessGovernment phonology and principles of LI syllabification(1994) Vanderweide, Teresa M.; Archibald, John
- ItemOpen AccessL'interference lexicale dans l'acquisition d'une troisieme langue: effet langue seconde ou distance typologique?(2006) Rossi, Silvia Luisa; Walker, Douglas; Archibald, John
- ItemOpen AccessA longitudinal study of the acquisition of English stress(University of Calgary, 1995-01) Archibald, JohnThe study that I discuss today differs in two respects from my previous studies. One, it is a longitudinal study, and two, it involves different first languages. Ideally, it might have been better to change only one of the factors, but these are the subjects who were available to me for a longitudinal study. As a result, this paper has more to say about the influence of the first language type on second language acquisition than on patterns of development over time, because, as we shall see, the performance didn't change very much over time.
- ItemOpen AccessNon-native perception of laryngeal features(2009) Jackson, Susan; Archibald, JohnThis thesis investigated the role of phonological features and phonetic factors in the perception of non-native contrasts and demonstrated that cross-language perception may shed light on the nature of Ll underlying representations. The experimental design was based on a theory that English uses the feature [spread glottis] while French uses the feature [voice] to distinguish voiced and voiceless stops. Native-English and -French speakers were tested on their perception of Hindi laryngeal stop contrasts which are thought to contrast both these features. Results from an ABX task showed that English speakers performed significantly better on contrasts involving the feature [ spread glottis] and the French did significantly better on contrasts involving the feature [voice]. This is consistent with the assumption that English and French have different active phonological features. However, the role of phonetic information is considered as well, because Brown's Feature Model (1998, 2000), in its strongest interpretation, is not supported.
- ItemOpen AccessResearch paradigms and linguistic research(University of Calgary, 1994-01) Archibald, JohnThe following papers (Derwing, Dobrovolsky, Guilfoyle, and Prideaux) began as a panel discussion at the annual Alberta Conference on Language (ACOL) held in Banff on November 7th, 1992. The general theme of the panel was Research Paradigms and linguistic Research, and the original panel consisted of Bruce Derwing (U of A), John Archibald (U of C), John Ohala (U of A; Berkley), Eithne Guilfoyle (U of C), Gary Prideaux (U of A), and Michael Dobrovolsky (U of C). Each original talk was about fifteen minutes long. In this paper, I would like to combine the very brief opening remarks that I made, as well as my contribution: research paradigms and language acquisition research.
- ItemOpen AccessSecond language syllable structure: phonological government and typological universals(University of Calgary, 1997-01) Archibald, John; Vanderweide, TeresaSecond language learners commonly modify the syllable structure of their L2 words to match the syllable patterns found in their L1 words. Broselow and Finer (1991) propose a phonetically based minimal sonority distance parameter to account for their Korean subjects difficulties with English onset clusters. In contrast, Eckman and Iverson's (1993) claim that typological universals are sufficient to account for second language learner behavior. We propose a model of L2 syllabification based on a phonological minimal sonority distance parameter using derived sonority and phonological government. We argue that the acquisition of English onset clusters is linked to the acquisition of phonological contrasts and that similar to child language acquisition, a phonological contrast must first be acquired before it can be used as part of an onset cluster. This model both accounts for L2 errors and has the potential for telling us something about the mental representations of second language learners.
- ItemOpen AccessSentence processing and prosody: a comparison between hearing-loss and hearing readers(2007) Sagae, Seiko; Archibald, John
- ItemOpen AccessStress and weight in Quebec french(1999) Armstrong, Susan Dawn; Archibald, John
- ItemOpen AccessThe structure of the colour lexicon(University of Calgary, 1992-09) Archibald, JohnOne of the standard models of describing colour space is shown in Figure I. This is the model shown in Kay & McDaniel (1978). The spherical model, with its four points of equal status along the equator (red, yellow, green, blue), is justified physiologically (De Valois et al. 1966). In Archibald (1989) I pointed out that the spherical model has great difficulty accounting for the distribution of basic colour terms on the colour solid. Similarly, the model cannot explain why terms at certain points on the model are basic while terms at other points are non-basic. Ultimately, we should like our model to be able to account for these lexical facts.
- ItemOpen AccessThe acquisition of L2 segmental contrasts: English speakers' perception and production of Czech palatal stops(2001) Atkey, Susan Barbara; Archibald, John
- ItemOpen AccessThe acquisition of phonological features in a second language(2003) Mah, Jennifer; Archibald, John
- ItemEmbargoThe complexity of the Canadian multilingual mind and identity: a guide for second language teaching(2010) Kasatkin, Julia Nikola; Archibald, John; Roy, Sylvie
- ItemOpen AccessThe l2 acquisition of Japanese length contrasts(2007) Summerell, Fumiko Shimizu; Archibald, John