Ratree Wayland
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ratree Wayland plays a role.
Articles
2019 A quantitative analysis of tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin and Nanjing Mandarin based on surface pitch contours and underlying pitch targets International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:2, pp. 183–220 | Article
Two statistical modelling methods are first used to quantify the third tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin in which the first falling-rising T3 becomes a rising T2 in the T3 + T3 disyllabic context. Growth curve analysis suggests non-neutralization of the surface F0 contours of the sandhi tone and… read more
2019 The role of input in native Spanish Late learners’ production and perception of English phonetic segments Journal of Second Language Studies 2:1, pp. 1–44 | Article
This study evaluated the effect of input variation on the production and perception of English phonetic segments by native Spanish adults who had immigrated to the United States after the age of 16 years. The native Spanish (NS) participants were assigned to three groups of 20 each according to… read more
2016 Effects of different teaching methods on the production of Mandarin tone 3 by English speaking learners Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 51:3, pp. 252–265 | Article
This study compared the effectiveness of two teaching methods on the production of Mandarin Tone 3 by English-speaking students. The control group (n=12) received pitch direction-focused instruction in which Tone 3 was introduced as a falling-rising contour tone while the experimental group (n=12)… read more
2007 The relationship between identification and discrimination in cross-language perception: The case of Korean and Thai Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege, Bohn, Ocke-Schwen and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 201–218 | Article
The effects of stimulus presentation contexts on cross-language consonant category identification and category goodness rating were examined in two experiments. In Experiment 1, native Korean listeners’ identification and goodness ratings of Thai stop consonants were obtained under two conditions:… read more