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Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics: Supplementary materials
Data, code and results for the paper Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics (Macklin-Cordes, Bowern & Round, 2021). Information and usage instructions are found in the readme.txt file and Section S3 of the paper's Supplementary ...
Erich R. Round +2 more
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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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Results of a mismatch negativity experiment are reported in which the pre-attentive relevance of the German phonological alternation of final devoicing is shown in two ways. The experiment employs pseudowords.
Hubert eTruckenbrodt +3 more
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Word-initial rhotic avoidance: a typological survey
This paper addresses the issue of word-initial rhotic avoidance (WIRA) from a typological point of view. Its first aim is to document WIRA cross-linguistically, based on the examination of a sample of 200 languages designed by the WALS (Dryer and ...
Laurence Labrune
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Structure and usage do not explain each other: an analysis of German word-initial clusters
The present study focuses on German word-initial consonant clusters and asks whether feature-based phonotactic preferences correlate with patterns of type and token frequencies in present-day usage.
Wiese Richard, Orzechowska Paula
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Vowel Phonotactics in Modern Korean Phonology: A Corpus-Based Approach
Ideophones are believed to exhibit distinct phonotactic patterns compared to regular language, in their expressiveness. Vowel harmony can be observed in ideophones in Modern Korean.
Tae-Jin Yoon
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The relationship between phonotactic awareness and pronunciation in adult second language learners
: This study examined to what extent L1 Brazilian Portuguese (BP) EFL learners are aware of L2 phonotactics and whether there would be a relationship between L2 phonotactic awareness and L2 pronunciation accuracy.
Hanna Kivistö-de Souza
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Cumulative markedness effects and (non-)linearity in phonotactics
How do grammars assess the well-formedness of words with multiple phonotactic violations? Certain models predict that as the strength of phonotactic restrictions decrease, forms that violate multiple restrictions should be less acceptable than expected ...
Adam Albright, Canaan Breiss
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Pronunciation simplification strategies in child language. Experimental study
The aim of this study is to determine the strategies of pronunciation simplification. The sample of the study consisted of 288 Lithuanian children: 96 preschool age children (4;00–4;11), 95 pre-primary school age children (6;00–6;11) and 97 junior ...
Eglė Krivickaitė
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Prosodic location modulates listeners' perception of novel German sounds
Interaction of sounds on the melodic tier (segments) with prosodic and phonotactic structure (syllabic context) in cross-language perception is not explicitly addressed by models of second language phonology (e.g., Perceptual Assimilation Model: Best ...
Isabelle Darcy, John H. G. Scott
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