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Rhythm and Vowel Quality in Accents of English [PDF]
, 2010 In a sample of 27 speakers of Scottish Standard English two notoriously variable consonantal features are investigated: the contrast of /m/ and /w/ and non-prevocalic /r/, the latter both in terms of its presence or absence and the phonetic form it takes,
D. Abercrombie +14 more
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The relationship between phonotactic awareness and pronunciation in adult second language learners
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada: 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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Prosodic location modulates listeners' perception of novel German sounds
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 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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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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Pronunciation simplification strategies in child language. Experimental study
Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2017 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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Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception [PDF]
, 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, Paul, Hamann, Silke
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Doubled up all over again: borrowing, sound change and reduplication in Iwaidja [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines the interactions between reduplication, sound change, and borrowing, as played out in the Iwaidja language of Cobourg Peninsula, Arnhem Land, in Northern Australia, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Iwaidjan family.
Evans, Nicholas
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Oikos, EarlyView.Animals gather information about their surroundings, including their social environment, using a wide range of sensory modalities. Variation in reception, processing and interpretation of information (cues or signals) can lead to differences in how individuals perceive their local environment. Yet, how individual differences in environmental perception
Ane Liv Berthelsen +13 more
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Antepenultimate stress in Spanish: In defense of syllable weight and grammatically-informed analogy
Glossa, 2018 Spanish has a contrastive stress system with three major possibilities: antepenultimate, penultimate, and final stress. While penultimate and final stress are to some extent predictable, a major point of contention in the literature is whether ...
Martín Fuchs
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Perceptual constraints in phonotactic learning. [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010 Structural regularities in language have often been attributed to symbolic or statistical general purpose computations, whereas perceptual factors influencing such generalizations have received less interest. Here, we use phonotactic-like constraints as a case study to ask whether the structural properties of specific perceptual and memory mechanisms ...
Endress, A., Mehler, J.
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