Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception [PDF]
, 2009 We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely in terms of phonological and phonetic comprehension and production mechanisms in the first language. We provide explicit accounts of several loanword adaptation phenomena (in Korean) in terms of
Boersma, P. +5 more
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Top-down modulation of brain responses in spelling error recognition
Acta Psychologica, 2023 The task being undertaken can influence orthographic, phonological and semantic processes. In linguistic research, two tasks are most often used: a task requiring a decision in relation to the presented word and a passive reading task which does not ...
Ekaterina Larionova +2 more
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Positional Strength Approach to Initial Fortition in Persian Language [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2022 Fortition as one of the common phonological processes is the opposite of lenition. It occurs mostly in the initial position of the syllables and words. The present research has studied the fortition processes and evolutions from the Middle Persian to the
Zahra Karimi Bavaryani +3 more
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Reading disability: A deficit in the processing of rapid spectral changes or in phonological coding? [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1995 Reading-impaired children have been said to suffer from an auditory deficit, indexed by difficulties in processing formant transitions [P. Tallal, Brain & Lang. 9, 182–198 (1980)]. Having established that poor readers (n=20) made significantly more errors than good readers (n=20) on discrimination between stop-vowel syllables, contrasting in ...
Maria Mody, Michael Studdert-Kennedy
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Normal Developmental Changes in Inferior Frontal Gray Matter Are Associated with Improvement in Phonological Processing: A Longitudinal MRI Analysis [PDF]
Cerebral Cortex, 2006 This study asked whether previously identified developmental changes in the gray matter of the left inferior frontal gyrus are associated with maturation of a linguistic skill. To test this hypothesis, we examined whether thickening of this region was correlated with developmental improvements in phonological processing but not hand motor skills in a ...
Lh, Lu +7 more
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Lexicality and frequency in specific language impairment: accuracy and error data from two nonword repetition tests [PDF]
, 2010 Purpose: Deficits in phonological working memory and deficits in phonological processing have both been considered potential explanatory factors in Specific Language Impairment (SLI).
Pine, JM +14 more
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Wortsprachliche Merkmale im Alemannischen
Linguistik Online, 2019 This paper examines the strategies for profiling the phonological word in Alemannic, applying the typology of syllable and word languages. The diagnostic criteria selected for assessing the relevance of the phonological word include syllable structure ...
Javier Caro Reina
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The life cycle of phonological processes: accounting for dialectal microtypologies [PDF]
, 2015 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.
Michael Ramsammy +1 more
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Syllable structure in Old, Middle and Modern Persian: A contrastive analysis [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2015 Evolution of languages has always been of interest to linguists. In this paper we study the natural progress of the syllable structure from Old Persian (O.P) to Middle Persian (Mi.P) and up to the Modern Persian (Mo.P).
Aliye Kord zaferanlu Kambuziya +1 more
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La aspiración de origen nasal en la evolución fonológica del euskera: un caso de 'rhinoglottophilia'
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2008 From a typological perspective, the diachronic correspondence -n- > -h- is perhaps the most marked development in the phonological history of the Basque language. The examples of such a process of sound change are extremely scarce around the world and
Iván Igartua
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