Seth Wiener
List of John Benjamins publications for which Seth Wiener plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2451-828X | E-ISSN 2451-8298
Articles
2022 Effects of phonological and talker familiarity on second language lexical development The Mental Lexicon 17:1, pp. 132–153 | Article
Previous research has shown that second language (L2) learners of Mandarin learn new words more easily if the new word is homophonous with a word they already know (Liu and Wiener, 2020). That research involved word learning in which speech was produced by a single-talker with a specific pitch… read more
2022 Acquisition of non-sibilant anterior English fricatives by adult second language learners Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 8:1, pp. 68–94 | Article
This study examined the acquisition of the non-sibilant anterior fricatives /v, θ, ð/ by adult second language (L2) English talkers. Twenty-four Mandarin Chinese-L2 English talkers read aloud fricative-initial words. These talkers were chosen as their L1 contained /f/ but not /v, θ, ð/. Twenty… read more
2013 Evaluating the emergence of [ʋ] in modern spoken Mandarin Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.), pp. 171–188 | Article
This sociophonetic study examines the production of the modern spoken Mandarin voiced labial-velar approximant /w/ in isolation and zero initial environments. Acoustic analyses of ten native Mandarin speakers’ productions reveal that some speakers produce /w/ as both [w] and [ʋ]. The environments… read more