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An inductive learning bias toward phonetically driven tonal phonotactics

, 2020
This study adopted two artificial language learning experiments to investigate an inductive learning bias toward a phonetically natural tonal phonotactics that prohibits a non-domain-final rising tone. The study has been accepted by and thus to appear in
Tsung-Ying Chen
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Cross-linguistic Comparison of Phonotactic Development

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
The acquisition of phonotactics has not been studied as commonly as other aspects of children's development. A study was carried out on normally developing Maltese speaking children to collate a phonological development profile.
Helen Grech
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An unexpected gap in Gitksan consonant cluster phonotactics

, 2009
This short paper outlines the consonant cluster phonotactics of Giksan (Tsimshianic) by attempting a summary of the generalizations presented in Rigsby (1986).
Brown, Jason
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So, my language bears foreign vocabulary

Namibian Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Communication Studies
This article traces the incorporation of English words in the lexicon, phonology and morphology of the Silozi language spoken in the Zambezi Region. English is Namibia’s sole official language and is usually used alongside Silozi in different domains ...
Morgan Simataa Silume
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Pronunciation and Spelling Accuracy in English Words with Initial and Final Consonant Clusters by Arabic-Speaking EFL Learners

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Arabic phonotactics significantly differ from English phonotactics in that they usually follow a framework that forbids the presence of consonant clusters in syllabic onsets.
Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh, Najwa Ahmad AL-Junaid, Afakh Said Younes   +2 more
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The effect of phonotactics on alternation learning [PDF]

, 2021
This study investigates whether alternation learning is facilitated by a matching phonotactic generalization. In a series of artificial grammar learning experiments, English learners were trained on artificial languages evincing categorical vowel harmony
Chong, J
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Consonant Phonotactics in the Moenat Variety of Ladin

Accompanying archive of the article ‘Consonant Phonotactics in the Moenat Variety of Ladin’ (doi: 10.26346/1120-2726 ...
Yifan Yang, Rachel Walker
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Phonotactic Complexity across Dialects

Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Accepted to COLING-LREC ...
Ryan Soh-Eun Shim, Kalvin Chang, David R. Mortensen   +2 more
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Quantitative analysis of the syllable in the Czech lexicon

Linguistica Brunensia, 2015
The paper provides a quantitative analysis of the syllable in contemporary Czech in a corpus of 146,703 syllables contained in Czech words recorded in Slovník spisovné češtiny.
Aleš Bičan
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Generative phonotactics

, 2013
This dissertation outlines a program for the theory of phonotactics—the theory of speakers\u27 knowledge of possible and impossible (or likely and unlikely) words—and argues that the alternative view of phonotactics as stochastic, and of phonotactic ...
Gorman, Kyle
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