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, Paul, Hamann, Silke
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Segregation of lexical and sub-lexical reading processes in the left perisylvian cortex. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 A fundamental issue in cognitive neuroscience is the existence of two major, sub-lexical and lexical, reading processes and their possible segregation in the left posterior perisylvian cortex.
Franck-Emmanuel Roux +5 more
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The first signs of language: Phonological development in British sign language [PDF]
, 2007 A total of 1018 signs in one deaf child’s naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother, between the ages 19-24 months were analysed. This study summarises regular modification processes in the phonology of the child sign’s handshape, location, movement ...
Barrett-Jones, S. +2 more
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Phonetic correlations of the Russian and Slovak languages: Vocalism
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020 The correlation analysis of vocal systems of the Russian and Slovak languages, in which phonological spaces are determined by the number and set of phoneme-forming differential characteristics of vowels, was performed.
T.I. Magomedova
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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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Cross-linguistic activation in bilingual sentence processing: the role of word class meaning [PDF]
, 2010 This study investigates how categorial (word class) semantics influences cross-linguistic interactions when reading in L2. Previous homograph studies paid little attention to the possible influence of different word classes in the stimulus material on ...
Baten, Kristof +2 more
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Surveying Patterns of Noun Plural in Jibbāli
Linguistic Discovery, 2015 In Jibbāli, noun plurals exhibit two types of plural markers with numerous phonological alternations. There are nouns with explicit plural suffixes, nouns with internal change, plurals with a suffix and change combined, nouns taking a template and ...
Khalsa al-Aghbari
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Learning from your mistakes: The functional value of spontaneous error monitoring in aphasia
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Self-monitoring of errors in picture naming has been shown to correlate positively with aphasia treatment outcomes (Marshall et al., 1994). To explore potential explanations, we took advantage of aphasics’ item-level inconsistency in naming accuracy, e ...
Erica L. Middleton +3 more
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Transfer, similarity or lack of awareness? inconsistencies of German learners in the pronunciation of lot, thought, strut, palm and bath [PDF]
, 2012 The current study presents acoustic analyses of non-high back vowels and low central vowels in the lexical sets LOT, THOUGHT, STRUT, PALM and BATH as pronounced by German learners of English.
Kautzsch, Alexander
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Phonological development in 3-5 years old Bahdini Kurdish-speaking children
Journal of Child Language Acquisition and DevelopmentStudying phonological development is crucial for understanding linguistic patterns, supporting language perservation, educational development and clinical practice.
Aveen Mohammed Hasan +1 more
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