Susan G. Guion
List of John Benjamins publications for which Susan G. Guion plays a role.
Articles
2007 Prosody in second language acquisition: Acoustic analyses of duration and F0 range Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege, Bohn, Ocke-Schwen and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 281–297 | Article
This study investigated prosodic aspects of native and non-native (native Japanese, NJ) speech in American English. Since Japanese is characterized as mora-timed and English as stress-timed, it was hypothesized that durational contrasts among syllables in English spoken by NJ speakers may not be as… read more
2007 Investigating the role of attention in phonetic learning Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege, Bohn, Ocke-Schwen and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 57–77 | Article
Flege’s Speech Learning Model posits that adult second language learners retain the abilities of child learners for the perception and formation of novel phonetic categories. For novel categories to be formed, learners must discern at least some of the phonetic differences between the novel L2 and… read more
1996 Greek Syllable Structure: Evidence from Cyprian Diachronica 13:1, pp. 63–82 | Article
SUMMARY This paper investigates the syllable structure of Cyprian, an ancient Greek dialect written with a syllabary. Based on the corroboration of orthographic and metrical evidence, Cyprian is found to have a syllable structure which maximizes onsets to allow clusters of equal or rising sonority… read more