Elizabeth Zsiga

Books

Zsiga, Elizabeth C.  (2013).  The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology.  Wiley-Blackwell.

Zsiga, Elizabeth C., Ruth Kramer, and One Boyer, Eds.  (2015).  Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Education, and Language Policy.  Georgetown University Press.

 

Selected Papers*

Consonants of Setswana and Sebirwa

Zsiga, Elizabeth C. and One Tlale Boyer  (in press). A natural experiment in learning an unnatural alternation:  Sebirwa in contact with Setswana.  To appear in J. Kandybowicz and H. Torrence (Eds.), Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches.  Oxford University Press.

Boyer, One and Elizabeth C. Zsiga (2012).  Phonological devoicing and phonetic voicing in Setswana. Proceedings of the 43^rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics.

Gouskova, Maria, Elizabeth C. Zsiga, and One Tlale (2011).  Grounded constraints and the consonants of Setswana.  Lingua 121:15, 2120–2152.

Zsiga, Elizabeth C., Maria Gouskova, and One Tlale  (2006).  On the status of voiced stops in Tswana:  Against *ND.  In C. Davis, A. Deal, and Y. Zabbal (Eds.),  NELS 36: Proceedings of the 36^th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, pp. 721 – 734.

 

Tone

Zsiga, Elizabeth C. and Draga Zec (2013).  Contextual evidence for the representation of pitch accents in Standard Serbian. Language and Speech 56;1: 69 – 104.

Zsiga, Elizabeth C.  (2011).  Contrastive tone and its implementation.  In A. Cohn, M. Huffman, and A. Rialland (Eds.).  The Handbook of Laboratory Phonology.  Oxford University Press. pp. 196 – 207.

Zec, Draga and Elizabeth C. Zsiga  (2010).  Interaction of tone and stress in Standard Serbian. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 18: 536 – 555.

Zsiga, Elizabeth C. and Rattima Nitisaroj (2007).  Tone features, tone perception, and peak alignment in Thai. Language and Speech 50: 343 – 383.

Morén, Bruce and Elizabeth C. Zsiga (2006).  The lexical and post-lexical phonology of Thai tones. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24;1: 113 – 178.

 

Articulatory Phonology

Zsiga, Elizabeth C.  (2011).  External sandhi in a second language: The phonetics and phonology of obstruent nasalization in Korean and Korean-accented English.  Language 87: 289 – 345.

Zsiga, Elizabeth C. (2003).   Articulatory timing in a second language:  Evidence from English and Russian.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition 25;3: 399 – 432.

Zsiga, Elizabeth C.  (2000).  Phonetic alignment constraints:  Consonant overlap and palatalization in English and Russian.  Journal of Phonetics 28: 69 – 102.

Zsiga, Elizabeth C. (1997). Features, gestures, and Igbo vowels: An approach to the phonology/phonetics interface. Language 73;2:  227 – 274.

Zsiga, Elizabeth C.  (1992b).  Acoustic evidence for gestural overlap in consonant sequences. Haskins Laboratories Status Report on Speech Research SR 111/112: 1 – 20.  (Preliminary version of Zsiga 1994 a.)

 

Other

Zsiga, Elizabeth C.  (2011).  Local assimilation.  In M. van Oostendorp, C. Ewen, B. Hume, and K. Rice (Eds.).  The Companion to Phonology.  Wiley-Blackwell.

Whalen, Doulas H. and Elizabeth C. Zsiga (1994).  Subjective familiarity of English word/name homophones. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 26: 402 – 408.

Repp, Bruno, Ram Frost, and Elizabeth C. Zsiga (1992).  Lexical mediation between sight and sound in speechreading.  The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 45A: 1 – 20.

 

*Linked papers are the author’s pre-publication versions.