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Epenthetic vowels in Japanese: A perceptual illusion? [PDF]

, 1998
In four cross-linguistic experiments comparing French and Japanese hearers, we found that the phonotactic properties of Japanese (very reduced set of syllable types) induce Japanese listeners to perceive ``illusory'' vowels inside consonant clusters in ...
Christophe, Pallier, Emmanuel, Dupoux, Jacques, Mehler, Kazohiko, Kakehi, Yuki, Hirose   +4 more
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Addressing Bias in Spoken Language Systems Used in the Development and Implementation of Automated Child Language‐Based Assessment

Journal of Educational Measurement, Volume 63, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
Abstract This article addresses bias in Spoken Language Systems (SLS) that involve both Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and reports experiments to improve the performance of SLS for automated language and literacy‐related assessments with students who are under served in the U.S. educational system.
Alison L. Bailey, Alexander Johnson, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Hariram Veeramani, Julie A. Washington, Abeer Alwan   +5 more
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Investigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions

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Certain phonotactic constraints on the co-occurrence of segments appear to be much more common across the world’s languages than others. In many languages, similar consonant co-occurrence is restricted through Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) effects ...
Amanda Kaitlin Doucette, Heather Goad, Morgan Sonderegger, Timothy J O'Donnell   +3 more
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Iconicity correlated with vowel harmony in Korean ideophones

Laboratory Phonology, 2018
This paper aims to establish connections between the following phenomena pertaining to Korean ideophonic vowel harmony: A set of vowel patterns classified (phonologically) as ‘harmonic,’ ‘neutral,’ and ‘disharmonic’; a set of ideophones classified ...
Nahyun Kwon
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Insertion of vowels in English syllabic consonantal clusters pronounced by L1 Polish speakers

Open Linguistics, 2021
The aim of this study was an attempt to verify whether Polish speakers of English insert a vowel in the word-final clusters containing a consonant and a syllabic /l/ or /n/ due to the L1–L2 transfer. L1 Polish speakers are mostly unaware of the existence
Chwesiuk Urszula
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Learning phonotactic distributions [PDF]

, 2004
The problem All languages have distributional regularities: patterns which restrict what sounds can appear where, including nowhere, as determined by local syntagmatic factors independent of any particular morphemic alternations. Early Generative Phonology tended to slight the study of distributional relations in favour of morphophonemics, perhaps ...
Alan Prince, Bruce Tesar
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Exploring the Relationship between Pronunciation Training and Listening Ability [PDF]

, 2019
This study was an attempt to examine the effect of pronunciation training on students’ listening ability. TOEIC listening scores of students who took a pronunciation training class for one-semester or two-semesters were compared with students who did not
Desrosiers, Lori Ann
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A double dissociation between memory span and word processing among neurological patients attests to the functional independence of verbal short‐term memory

Journal of Neuropsychology, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 101-114, March 2026.
Abstract Reports of patients with impaired verbal short‐term memory are central to the debate of whether there are independent short‐term stores or whether immediate repetition is supported by activated long‐term memory. Patients with selective impairments of verbal short‐term memory support models with independent buffers.
Tobias Bormann, Margret Seyboth, Dorothee Kümmerer, Volkmar Glauche, Michel Rijntjes, Cornelius Weiller   +5 more
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Exceptionality in Spanish Onset Clusters

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020
Spanish complex onsets have been traditionally described as consisting of a stop (/p, t, k, b, d, g/) or the fricative /f/ plus a liquid. Given that all Spanish varieties have other fricatives (/x, s/), the obstruents that can form part of an onset ...
Katerina A. Tetzloff
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Why computational models are better than verbal theories: the case of nonword repetition [PDF]

, 2014
Tests of nonword repetition (NWR) have often been used to examine children’s phonological knowledge and word learning abilities. However, theories of NWR primarily explain performance either in terms of phonological working memory or long-term knowledge,
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