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The different time course of phonotactic constraint learning in children and adults : evidence from speech errors [PDF]
, 2017 Speech errors typically respect the speaker’s implicit knowledge of language-wide phonotactics (e.g., /ŋ/ cannot be a syllable onset in the English language).
Duyck, Wouter +3 more
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Vowel harmony in Akan a consideration of Stewarts word structure conditions
Studies in African Linguistics, 1984 Stewart [1983] presents a new framework for the analysis of Akan vowel harmony in which Word Structure Conditions (WSCs) are introduced to account for word-level phonotactic regularities.
George N. Clements
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The self-organization of combinatoriality and phonotactics in vocalization systems [PDF]
, 2005 This paper shows how a society of agents can self-organize a shared vocalization system that is discrete, combinatorial and has a form of primitive phonotactics, starting from holistic inarticulate vocalizations. The originality of the system is that: (1)
Oudeyer, Dr. P-Y.
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Learning novel phonotactics from exposure to continuous speech
Laboratory Phonology, 2017 Knowledge of phonotactics is commonly assumed to derive from the lexicon. However, computational studies have suggested that phonotactic constraints might arise before the lexicon is in place, in particular from co-occurrences in continuous speech.
Frans Adriaans, Rene Kager
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Distribution of Nasals in Consonant Clusters; and the Distributional-phonological Characteristics of Loanwords in Persian [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020 In the first part of the article, we looked at the distribution of nasals in Persian (: m & n) to determine how they are distributed in consonant clusters. The results suggest that there is a strong tendency among nasals to be complementarily distributed
Abbas Safardoost +1 more
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A role for the developing lexicon in phonetic category acquisition [PDF]
, 2013 Infants segment words from fluent speech during the same period when they are learning phonetic categories, yet accounts of phonetic category acquisition typically ignore information about the words in which sounds appear.
Feldman, Naomi H. +3 more
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017 During early language development native phonotactics are acquired in a ‘bottom-up’ fashion, relying on exquisite auditory differentiation skills operational from birth. Since basic lexico-semantic abilities have been demonstrated from 6 months onwards, ‘
Hellmuth Obrig +5 more
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Дискурс, 2020 Introduction. The present article is aiming to describe the procedure of stimuli selection for the psycho-semantic experiment on visual perception of imitative words in native (Russian) and non-native language (English). The methodology of the experiment
M. A. Flaksman +3 more
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Syllable structure in Old, Middle and Modern Persian: A contrastive analysis [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2015 Evolution of languages has always been of interest to linguists. In this paper we study the natural progress of the syllable structure from Old Persian (O.P) to Middle Persian (Mi.P) and up to the Modern Persian (Mo.P).
Aliye Kord zaferanlu Kambuziya +1 more
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A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonotactics and Phonotactic Learning [PDF]
Linguistic Inquiry, 2008 The study of phonotactics is a central topic in phonology. We propose a theory of phonotactic grammars and a learning algorithm that constructs such grammars from positive evidence. Our grammars consist of constraints that are assigned numerical weights according to the principle of maximum entropy.
Bruce Hayes, Colin Wilson
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