Gradient phonological relationships: Evidence from vowels in French
Glossa, 2017 The dichotomy of contrastive and allophonic phonological relationships has a long-standing tradition in phonology, but there is growing research that points to phonological relationships that fall between contrastive and allophonic.
Sophia Stevenson, Tania Zamuner
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Sociololinguistic competence and the bilingual's adoption of phonetic variants: auditory and instrumental data from English-Arabic bilinguals [PDF]
, 2002 This study is an auditory and acoustic investigation of the speech production patterns developed by English-Arabic bilingual children. The subjects are three Lebanese children aged five, seven and ten, all born and raised in Yorkshire, England ...
Khattab, Ghada
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Expressive Sibilant Retraction in North Norwegian: morpheme or ‘spoken gesture’?
Glossa, 2020 North Norwegian has a contrast between /s/ and /ʂ/ that is neutralized in word-initial position before a consonant, and an optional process of Expressive Sibilant Retraction (ESR), which changes /s/ to [ʂ] in precisely the environment where the contrast ...
Patrik Bye
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The phonological status of English oral stops after tautosyllabic /s/ : evidence from speakers' classificatory behaviour [PDF]
, 2006 The classification of oral stops after tautosyllabic /s/ in English is an old phonological problem to which different solutions have been proposed.
Monpeán González, José Antonio
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Priors in Bayesian Learning of Phonological Rules [PDF]
, 2004 This paper describes a Bayesian procedure for unsupervised learning of phonological rules from an unlabeled corpus of training data. Like Goldsmith's Linguistica program (Goldsmith, 2004b), whose output is taken as the starting point of this procedure ...
Johnson, Mark +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Children of immigrant families often have great difficulties with language and disadvantages in schooling. Phonological problems appear especially common.
Hanne Patscheke +2 more
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Robustness and Complexity in Italian Mid Vowel Contrasts
LanguagesAccounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers’ knowledge about their native language.
Margaret E. L. Renwick
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Cortical asymmetries at different spatial hierarchies relate to phonological processing ability.
PLoS Biology, 2022 The ability to map speech sounds to corresponding letters is critical for establishing proficient reading. People vary in this phonological processing ability, which has been hypothesized to result from variation in hemispheric asymmetries within brain ...
Mark A Eckert +3 more
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Contrast and Conflict in Dutch Vowels
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 The nature of phonological representations has been extensively studied in phonology and psycholinguistics. While full specification is still the norm in psycholinguistic research, underspecified representations may better account for perceptual ...
Nadine P. W. D. de Rue +3 more
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An Acoustic Study of Romanian Stressed Vowels with Special Reference to Mid Central [ɨ] and [ə]
LanguagesThe present study is concerned with some aspects of the production of [ɨ] and [ə] in Romanian, i.e., their position within the vowel space, degree of acoustic variability and acoustic duration.
Daniel Recasens, Fernando Sánchez-Miret
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