Alexander L. Francis
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander L. Francis plays a role.
Articles
2021 Language attitudes modulate phonetic interactions between languages in bilingual speakers in diglossic settings Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:3, pp. 289–322 | Article
Bilinguals’ attitudes toward their languages can be a major source of linguistic variability. However, the effect of attitudes on crosslinguistic phonetic interactions in bilinguals remains largely unexplored. This study investigated the possibility of such effects in Cantonese-English… read more
2015 Temporal and spectral dependencies in the processing of Spanish and English stop consonant voicing Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), pp. 113–126 | Article
Previous findings show that listeners do not rely on onset f0 when processing stop consonant voicing with lead VOT (Llanos et al., 2013). According to a temporal-based account, onset f0 has no effect because the voicing decision is biased by the presence of prevoicing that precedes the occurrence… read more
2011 Phonological features in infancy Where Do Phonological Features Come From?: Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories, Clements, G. Nick and Rachid Ridouane (eds.), pp. 303–326 | Article
Features serve two main functions in the phonology of languages: they encode the distinction between pairs of contrastive phonemes (distinctive function); and they delimit sets of sounds that participate in phonological processes and patterns (classificatory function). We summarize evidence from a… read more