Mary Pearce
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mary Pearce plays a role.
Articles
2013 Chapter 3. Variation with gender in the tonal speech varieties of Kera (Chadic) Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change, Atanga, Lilian Lem, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland (eds.), pp. 79–93 | Article
In languages where dialects differ according to gender, claims have been made that women are more conservative than men in rural settings and more innovative in urban settings. Both effects are seen in the tonal dialects of Kera (a Chadic language). I present data from perception experiments and… read more
2012 Effects of harmony on reduction in Kera Linguistic Variation 12:2, pp. 292–320 | Article
The reduction of vowels is a popular topic for research, but little has been said about the effects of vowel harmony on vowel reduction. Gendrot and Adda-Decker (2006, 2007) claim that phonetic reduction is linked to the phonetic duration of the vowel so that in short syllables, the vowel converges… read more