Amanda Dalola
List of John Benjamins publications for which Amanda Dalola plays a role.
2023 Fortifying cuteness: Obstruent fortition and Aegyo Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:1, pp. 29–58 | Article
The term aegyo refers to a cute style of speech in Korean with numerous reported phonetic correlates. One of these is obstruent fortition (OF). The present study examines the gender and age effects of OF across 21 romantic couples and across eight mock situations (date, workplace, family,… read more
2023 Perception and production mismatch in truncated past tense verbs in Korean Korean Linguistics 19:1, pp. 88–105 | Article
Korean is often described as neutralizing its obstruents to unreleased stops in coda position. However, a stylistic truncated form of the intimate past tense expressing avuncularity, contradicts this description by realizing a fricative word finally. Despite tokens elicited from informants… read more
2015 The adaptation of /h/ in Old French loanwords: A tale of love and ‘ate Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012, Smith, Jason and Tabea Ihsane (eds.), pp. 133–144 | Article
Contact between Old French and three /h/-bearing varieties of Germanic
(i.e. Frankish, Old East Scandinavian, Middle Dutch) transpired in present-day Normandy and Belgium from the early 8th to the late 14th century. During this period, an influx of Germanic loanwords entered Old French, restoring… read more
2006 Mapping the Patterns of Maintenance versus Merger in Bilingual Phonology: The Preservation of [a] vs. [ɑ] in Frenchville French New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology, Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Y. (ed.), pp. 15–29 | Article
This acoustic investigation focuses on the preservation of the two low French vowels /a/ vs. /ɑ/ within a vowel system that otherwise manifests striking convergent properties with English. Our acoustic data demonstrate that this inherited contrast is preserved, with a distribution largely… read more