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Generative phonology and phonological identification

open access: yesJournal of Phonetics, 1978
Abstract It is shown that generative phonology in its present form cannot predict phonological identifications, thus preventing it from achieving descriptive adequacy, and limiting its usefulness in the study of speech perception. It is concluded that the main assumption of generative phonology—that the unity of the morpheme must be expressed ...
openaire   +1 more source

Turkish /h/ deletion : evidence for the interplay of speech perception and phonology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
It has been hypothesized that sounds which are less perceptible are more likely to be altered than more salient sounds, the rationale being that the loss of information resulting from a change in a sound which is difficult to perceive is not as great as ...
Mielke, Jeff
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Father–Child Play: What Types of Play Do Fathers Engage in With Their Daughters and Sons?

open access: yesFamily Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to investigate the types of play that fathers in Turkey engage in with their children aged 4–6 years and to examine whether these plays differ according to the child's gender. Background Despite the importance of fathers in child development, limited evidence exists on father–child play and gender differences in play
Hayriye Kamrak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Input and the acquisition of suprasegmental phonology in English by Thai school children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This thesis discusses an experimental study whose aim was to find out whether English pronunciation teaching can be improved in Thai schools, where English has recently been introduced at the primary level.
Sumdangdej, Suthee
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Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Syntactic awareness as a mediator of reading–writing relations in young Chinese L2 learners

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This longitudinal study examined the mediating role of syntactic awareness in reading–writing relations among young learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 177 students from non‐Chinese‐speaking backgrounds in Hong Kong were assessed annually from Grades 4 to 6 on word‐level literacy (character reading, spelling), sentence ...
Yu Ka Wong, Dongbo Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Phonological typology Phonology and phonetics ;, 23./ edited by Larry M. Hyman and Frans Plank.

open access: yes, 2018
In English.Hyman, Larry M. / Plank, Frans -- Hyman, Larry M. -- Plank, Frans -- Kiparsky, Paul -- Maddieson, Ian -- Heinz, Jeffrey -- Brohan, Anthony / Mielke, Jeff -- Lahiri, Aditi -- Dresher, B.
Plank Frans, Hyman Larry M.,
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Word Associations in a Minoritised Language: The Case of Cymraeg (Welsh)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As with many research strands in linguistics, word association (WA) literature is dominated by English language data. This paper (i) explores the extent to which methodologies developed to date are applicable to other languages—specifically, Welsh (Cymraeg)—and (ii) investigates what WA analysis can reveal about lexical organisation and ...
Tess Fitzpatrick   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unification and Transduction in Computational Phonology

open access: yes, 1988
In this paper unification and transduction mechanisms are applied in a new approach to phonological parsing. It is shown that unification in the sense of Kay as used in unification grammars, and transduction, a process deriving from automata theory, are ...
Julie Carson, In Phonology
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Recent developments in phonology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Corno quase nenhuma outra disciplina lingüística, a fonologia passou por uma evolução turbulenta nas duas últimas décadas. Ao contrário da abordagem cöássica da Gramática Gerativa, que se concentrou na descrição de cadeias de segmentos fonológicos e de ...
Vater, Heinz
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