David J. Silva
List of John Benjamins publications for which David J. Silva plays a role.
Articles
2017 Parallel Voice Onset Time shift in Chinese Korean: A case for linguistic drift Asia-Pacific Language Variation 3:1, pp. 41–66 | Article
This study reveals the existence of a Voice Onset Time shift in the Korean spoken by native speakers residing in northeast China, a shift parallel to those reported in other Korean varieties in Korea, the USA, and Canada. The VOT pattern observed in the Chinese Korean community is argued to… read more
2006 Variation in Voice Onset Time for Korean Stops: A Case for Recent Sound Change Korean Linguistics 13, pp. 1–16 | Article
Abstract. Acoustic data elicited from 34 native speakers of Korean living in the United States pro-vide evidence for diachronic change in the voice onset time (VOT) of phrase-initial aspirated and lax stop phonemes. While older speakers produce aspirated and lax stops with clearly differentiated… read more
2004 Quantified Optimality and the Phonological Parsing of Korean Sov Sentences Korean Linguistics 12, pp. 25–54 | Article
Abstract. In an attempt to understand the variable nature of phonological phrasing in Korean, this study analyzes intuitional judgments of 53 native speakers of Korean who evaluated possible phonological phrasings of simple Subject-Object-Verb sentences: [S]-[OV], [SO]-[V], [SOV], and… read more