Seth Wiener
List of John Benjamins publications in which Seth Wiener is involved.
2025 The art of wrangling: Working with web-based visual world paradigm eye-tracking data in language research Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism, Pliatsikas, Christos, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings (eds.), pp. 538–570 | Article
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
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