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Echoes of L1 Syllable Structure in L2 Phoneme Recognition
Learning to move from auditory signals to phonemic categories is a crucial component of first, second, and multilingual language acquisition. In L1 and simultaneous multilingual acquisition, learners build up phonological knowledge to structure their ...
Kanako Yasufuku, Gabriel Doyle
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Rhotics show considerable surface variation, which has precluded classification based on cohesive articulatory or acoustic properties. Yet they tend to display consistent patterns of behavior in relation to other phonemes within the phonological system ...
David Natvig
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE PHONOLOGY OF ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN EDO: AN OPTIMALITY THEORY APPROACH [PDF]
The study examines the phonological adaptation exerted on Edo loanwords of English origin. It examines the different strategies employed by the native speakers of the Edo language, and explains these in terms of the demand of the native phonology. This
Cecilia Amaoge EME
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Sentence Reading: Do We Make Use of Orthographic Cues in Homophones? [PDF]
Starting from the finding that currently phonological models of visual word processing predominate, we examined what happened when important morphological information is disclosed in the orthography but not in the phonology.
Brysbaert, Marc +2 more
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Phonological complexity and prosodic structure in assessment of Serbian phonological development [PDF]
In this research we investigate the relevance of phonological parameters in acquisition of Serbian language. Implementation of British Test of Phonological Screeing (TOPhS, van der Lely and Harris, 1999) has revealed that phonological complexity ...
Nevena Buđevac +3 more
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Whole Segment Processes in Dogri
The present paper aims to discuss the phonological processes including whole segment processes occurring in Dogri. It serves an introduction to the types of phonological processes and present examples from Dogri words exhibiting these processes and ...
Devina Krishna
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Notions of focus anaphoricity [PDF]
This article reviews some of the theoretical notions and empirical phenomena which figure in current formal-semantic theories of focus.
Rooth, Mats
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Phonological markers of information structure: An fMRI study [PDF]
In this fMRI study we investigate the neural correlates of information structure integration during sentence comprehension in Dutch. We looked into how prosodic cues (pitch accents) that signal the information status of constituents to the listener (new information) are combined with other types of information during the unification process.
van Leeuwen, T.M. +9 more
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Nigerian English and the Phonotactic Influence of the West Chadic Languages
Phonotactics is a fundamental aspect of phonology that governs the permissible combinations of sounds in a given language. It consists of rules that dictate how phonemes; the smallest units of sound can be arranged to form syllables and words.
Blessing Saina’an Lagan +1 more
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