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What differentiates Serbo-Croatian verbal theme vowels: content or markedness?

open access: yesGlossa, 2022
We examine two hypotheses regarding the role of theme vowels (ThVs) in Serbo- Croatian (SC): (i) that the various ThVs attested in SC are markedness-based realizations of the same syntactic feature specification, and (ii) that different ThVs carry ...
Boban Arsenijevic
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Effect of prosodic prominence and markedness on perception of Bengali stops

open access: yes, 2023
Vogel, IreneThis dissertation investigates the effects of prosodic prominence and markedness on the perception of Bengali stops. Both these issues have been studied in the past from the perspective of speech production, but not from the perspective of ...
Sarkar, Sreeparna
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Homonymy and the Cognitive Operator of Norm in German

open access: yesEast European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2020
The works of many linguists view homonymy as a negative phenomenon, which interferes with communication, complicates the perception of information, and decreases the effectiveness of the language as a means of communication.
Svitlana Kiyko , Yuriy Kiyko
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On the Relationship between Frequency, Features, and Markedness in Inflection: Experimental Evidence from Russian Nouns

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Markedness has a long tradition in linguistics as a way to describe linguistic asymmetries. In this paper, I investigate an argument about the necessity of markedness as a tool for capturing the structural distribution of inflectional affixes and ...
Jeff Parker
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On the correlation between discourse frequency and structural complexity in markedness theory

open access: yesDiscours, 2009
Markedness is commonly regarded as one of the fundamental organizing principles of human language. However, the reasons for the existence of markedness phenomena continue to be controversial, if not to say obscure.
Regina Pustet
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Sonority as a Phonological Cue in Early Perception of Written Syllables in French

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Many studies focused on the letter and sound co-occurrences to account for the well-documented syllable-based effects in French in visual (pseudo)word processing.
Méghane Tossonian   +5 more
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Universal Restrictions in Reading: What Do French Beginning Readers (Mis)perceive?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Despite the many reports that consider statistical distribution to be vitally important in visual identification tasks in children, some recent studies suggest that children do not always rely on statistical properties to help them locate syllable ...
Norbert Maïonchi-Pino   +5 more
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Revision and classification of past participles with the typological prototype approach [PDF]

open access: yesزبان پژوهی, 2021
INTRODUCTION In this research, we have had an exact categorization for different kinds of derivational and derivational-compound past participles in the frame of typological prototypes which is a universal approach towards the parts of speech.
Mitra Hoseingholian   +1 more
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Phonological markedness effects in reanalysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Paradigms with conflicting data patterns can be difficult to learn, resulting in acquisition error. In this dissertation, I look at how paradigms are reanalyzed over time to gain insight into the factors that influence morphophonological learning ...
Kuo, Jennifer
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A markedness analysis of initial consonant clusters in Aphasic Phonological Impairment: A case study

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1978
The purpose of  this study was to assess both the theoretical and clinical value of  markedness theory in phonological impairment in aphasia. A markedness analysis was carried out on initial consonant clusters in a single aphasic adult, at two points ...
Lesley Wolk
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