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Computationally, tone is different Open
This paper establishes that unbounded circumambient processes, phonological processes for which crucial information in the environment may appear unboundedly far away on both sides of a target, are common in tonal phonology, but rare in se…
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Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition Open
The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly analogy across multiple stored exemplars, weighted by thei…
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Cognitive Phonetics: The Transduction of Distinctive Features at the Phonology-Phonetics Interface Open
We propose that the interface between phonology and phonetics is mediated by a transduction process that converts elementary units of phonological computation, features, into temporally coordinated neuromuscular patterns, called ‘True Phon…
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Linking Cognitive and Social Aspects of Sound Change Using Agent‐Based Modeling Open
The paper defines the core components of an interactive‐phonetic (IP) sound change model. The starting point for the IP‐model is that a phonological category is often skewed phonetically in a certain direction by the production and percept…
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Acoustic-Emergent Phonology in the Amplitude Envelope of Child-Directed Speech Open
When acquiring language, young children may use acoustic spectro-temporal patterns in speech to derive phonological units in spoken language (e.g., prosodic stress patterns, syllables, phonemes). Children appear to learn acoustic-phonologi…
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Words and subwords: Phonology in a piece-based syntactic morphology Open
The goal of this dissertation is to take generalizations made in a variety of phonological and morphological theories and account for them in a piece-based syntactic theory of morphology. The theories discussed are Cyclic phonology, Lexica…
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Phonology without universal grammar Open
The question of identifying the properties of language that are specific human linguistic abilities, i.e., Universal Grammar, lies at the center of linguistic research. This paper argues for a largely Emergent Grammar in phonology, taking …
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Prosody, focus, and ellipsis in Irish Open
This article analyzes a certain class of misalignments found in contemporary Irish in the relation between syntactic and phonological representations. The mismatches analyzed turn on the phonological requirements of focus (verum focus, in …
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Gradient morphophonology: Evidence from Uyghur vowel harmony Open
For the Structuralists and early Generativists (e.g. Bloomfield 1933; Chomsky & Halle 1968), all grammatical knowledge was by definition discrete and categorical. Since phonetic patterns are gradient, early work argued that phonetics was e…
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On Evaluation Metrics in Optimality Theory Open
We develop an evaluation metric for Optimality Theory that allows a learner to induce a lexicon and a phonological grammar from unanalyzed surface forms. We wish to model aspects of knowledge such as the English-speaking child’s knowledge …
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The influence of orthography in second language phonological acquisition Open
We provide an exhaustive review of studies in the relatively new domain of research on the influence of orthography on second language (L2) phonological acquisition. While language teachers have long recognized the importance of written in…
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Wordhood in Chamacoco Open
This chapter investigates ‘wordhood’ in Chamacoco, a Zamucoan language with about 2,000 speakers who traditionally inhabit the department of Alto Paraguay in Paraguay. After having examined the concept of ‘word’ in Chamacoco culture and th…
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Vowel Harmony and Other Morphological Processes in Turkish Open
Vowel harmony appears to be a regular phonological process in Turkish, but nevertheless is not exceptionless. Due to these exceptions, it cannot be considered as part of the active phonology of Turkish. An analysis is proposed in which mor…
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Speech Sound Disorders in Children: An Articulatory Phonology Perspective Open
Speech Sound Disorders (SSDs) is a generic term used to describe a range of difficulties producing speech sounds in children (McLeod and Baker, 2017). The foundations of clinical assessment, classification and intervention for children wit…
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A neural oscillations perspective on phonological development and phonological processing in developmental dyslexia Open
Children's ability to reflect upon and manipulate the sounds in words (“phonological awareness”) develops as part of natural language acquisition, supports reading acquisition, and develops further as reading and spelling are learned. Chil…
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Beyond grammatical and phonological words Open
This paper reviews recent research on the cross‐linguistic comparison of wordhood domains. A prominent solution to misalignments in wordhood domains is to distinguish between grammatical (morphosyntactic, morphological) words and phonologi…
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Children's and adults' parafoveal processes in German: Phonological and orthographic effects Open
Phonological and orthographic information has been shown to play an important role in parafoveal processing in skilled adult reading in English. In the present study, we investigated whether similar parafoveal effects can be found in child…
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Phonological simplifications, apraxia of speech and the interaction between phonological and phonetic processing Open
Research on aphasia has struggled to identify apraxia of speech (AoS) as an independent deficit affecting a processing level separate from phonological assembly and motor implementation. This is because AoS is characterized by both phonolo…
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The Prosodic Acquisition Path Hypothesis: Towards explaining variability in L2 acquisition of phonology Open
Assuming that word-prosodic parameters are organized into a hierarchical tree where certain parameters are embedded under others, this paper proposes the Prosodic Acquisition Path Hypothesis (PAPH). The PAPH predicts different levels of di…
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The phonologisation of redundancy: length and quality in Welsh vowels Open
‘Phonologisation’ is a process whereby a phonetic phenomenon enters the phonological grammar and becomes conceptualised as the result of categorical manipulation of phonological symbols. I analyse the phonologisation of a predictable phono…
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The Life Cycle of Phonological Processes: Accounting for Dialectal Microtypologies Open
This article reviews and exemplifies the theory of the life cycle of phonological processes and illustrates how diachronic phonological changes can be accounted for in a stratal/cyclic model of phonology. The life cycle captures the fact t…
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Does phonological distance impact quality of phonological representations? Evidence from Arabic diglossia Open
The study tested the impact of the phonological distance between Spoken Arabic (SpA) and Standard Arabic (StA) on quality of phonological representations among kindergarten, first-, second-, and sixth-grade Arabic-speaking children (N = 12…
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Categorical or gradient? An ultrasound investigation of /l/-darkening and vocalization in varieties of English Open
This paper presents an empirical analysis of /l/-darkening in English, using ultrasound tongue imaging data from five varieties spoken in the UK. The analysis of near 500 tokens from five participants provides hitherto absent instrumental …
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Speech production planning affects phonological variability: a case study in French liaison Open
Connected speech processes have played a major role in shaping theories about phonological organization, and how phonology interacts with other components of the grammar (Selkirk, 1974; Kiparsky, 1982; Kaisse, 1985; Nespor and Vogel, 1986,…
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Monitoring Different Phonological Parameters of Sign Language Engages the Same Cortical Language Network but Distinctive Perceptual Ones Open
The study of signed languages allows the dissociation of sensorimotor and cognitive neural components of the language signal. Here we investigated the neurocognitive processes underlying the monitoring of two phonological parameters of sig…
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The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology Open
This article addresses a phenomenon of long-standing interest: the existence of child-specific phonological patterns that are not attested in adult language. We propose a new theoretical approach, termed the A( rticulatory )- map model, to…
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Distributing morphologically conditioned phonology: Three case studies from Guébie Open
The focus of this study is process morphology in Guébie, an endangered Kru language spoken in Côte d'Ivoire. Unlike many primarily affixing morphological systems, much of the morphology in Guébie involves root-internal phonological changes…
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Historical phonology and morphology in the nineteenth century: abstractness vs. empiricism Open
In the first half of the nineteenth century comparative and historical linguistics focused mainly on morphological structure. Although important phonological discoveries were made, phonology played a subsidiary role to morphology. What cou…
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Accounting for the learnability of saltation in phonological theory: A maximum entropy model with a P-map bias Open
Saltatory alternations occur when two sounds alternate with each other, excluding a third sound that is phonetically intermediate between the two alternating sounds (e.g. [p] alternates with [β], with nonalternating, phonetically intermedi…
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What animals can teach us about human language: the phonological continuity hypothesis Open
Progress in linking between the disparate levels of cognitive description and neural implementation requires explicit, testable, computationally based hypotheses. One such hypothesis is the dendrophilia hypothesis, which suggests that huma…