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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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Investigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions
GlossaCertain 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 +3 more
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Network Models for Assessing the Co‐occurrence Between Stuttering and ADHD
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Previous studies have indicated that people who stutter (PWS) and people with ADHD (PWADHD) show similar cognitive profiles, implying a link between the two neurodevelopmental profiles. This study examined the relationship between stuttering and ADHD and investigated the extent of this similarity using Network Models (NMs).
Fjorda Kazazi, Peter Howell
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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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The voice of experience: Causal inference in phonotactic adaptation
Laboratory Phonology, 2021 Successfully grappling with widespread linguistic variation requires listeners to adapt to systematic variation in the environment while discarding incidental variation, based on listeners’ prior experience.
Matthew Goldrick, Thomas Denby
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Phonotactics as phonology: knowledge of a complex restriction in Dutch [PDF]
Phonology, 2012 The Dutch lexicon contains very few sequences of a long vowel followed by a consonant cluster whose second member is a non-coronal. We provide experimental evidence that Dutch speakers have implicit knowledge of this gap, which cannot be reduced to the probability of segmental sequences or to word-likeness as measured by neighbourhood density.
Kager, René, Pater, Joe
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Representations for Phonotactic Learning in Infancy [PDF]
Language Learning and Development, 2011 Infants rapidly learn novel phonotactic constraints from brief listening experience. Four experiments explored the nature of the representations underlying this learning. 16.5- and 10.5-month-old infants heard training syllables in which particular consonants were restricted to particular syllable positions (first-order constraints) or to syllable ...
Kyle E, Chambers +2 more
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Nigerian English and the Phonotactic Influence of the West Chadic Languages
Universal Journal of Educational ResearchPhonotactics is a fundamental aspect of phonology that governs the permissible combinations of sounds in a given language. It consists of rules that dictate how phonemes; the smallest units of sound can be arranged to form syllables and words.
Blessing Saina’an Lagan +1 more
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT It has been proposed that the world's languages fall into three rhythmic classes according to the units that determine their rhythmic structure: stress‐based (e.g., English), syllable‐based (e.g., French), and mora‐based (e.g., Japanese). These rhythmic differences modulate language‐specific processing in adults and young infants.
Varghese Peter +5 more
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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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