Seth Wiener
List of John Benjamins publications for which Seth Wiener plays a role.
Journal
The art of wrangling: Working with web-based visual world paradigm eye-tracking data in language research Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
2024 Web-based eye-tracking is more accessible than ever. Researchers can now carry out visual world paradigm studies remotely and access never before tested, multilingual populations via the internet all without the need for an expensive eye-tracker. Web-based eye-tracking, however, requires careful… read more
Effects of phonological and talker familiarity on second language lexical development The Mental Lexicon 17:1, pp. 132–153 | Article
2022 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
Acquisition of non-sibilant anterior English fricatives by adult second language learners Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 8:1, pp. 68–94 | Article
2022 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
Evaluating the emergence of [ʋ] in modern spoken Mandarin Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.), pp. 171–188 | Article
2013 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