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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"phonotactic constraints"”.
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The role of perception in phonotactic constraints : evidence from Trinidad English
… This is shown specifically for grammatical constraints on word-final consonant cluster inventories (VC 1 C2#), with focus on coda cluster simplification in Trinidad English. The first claim of this thesis is that C2 deletion is triggered when VC 1 C2# is not sufficiently distinguished …
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An onset is an onset: evidence from abstraction of newly-learned phonotactic constraints
Phonotactic constraints involve language-specific patterns for sequences of speech sounds. Traditionally, phonotactic constraints are characterized by listing which sounds or sound sequences can occur at certain syllable positions (e.g. /h/ must begin syllables in English). However, most studies of …
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Learning phonotactic constraints in the production of non-native consonant clusters, as reflected in speech errors
… participants produce sounds under artificial phonotactic constraints show that speakers are able to acquire new speech patterns following minimal exposure, even when these patterns involve sequences unattested in the participants’ native languages (e.g., Dell, Reed, Adams, & Meyer, 2000; …
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Change in the Adult Phonological Processing System by Learning Non -Adjacent Phonotactic Constraints From Brief Experience: An Experimental and Computational Study
As a result of learning, the speakers judge phonotactically legal novel words to be more grammatical than phonotactically illegal novel words. They also perceive the legal ones more quickly and accurately than the illegal ones. In addition, the experiments show that the effect of learning on …
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Immediate transfer of learning from speech perception to speech production
… new linguistic patterns in laboratory settings: phonotactic constraints acquired through listening experience affect later perception (Onishi et al., 2002), and speech production errors reflect constraints present in recently spoken syllables (Dell et al., 2000). There is little evidence, …
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Analytic bias in coocurrence restrictions
The representation, content and learning of phonotactic constraints has spurred a lot of recent research phonology. This work concerns the constraints involved in the representation of place-based coocurrence restrictions. A single OCP-[PLACE] constraint is argued to compete in in constraint …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
Languages differ in their phonotactic constraints – that is, the numbers, types and combinations of sounds that can occur together in different parts of a syllable. In Brazilian Portuguese, for example, no stop consonant may occur at the end of a syllable, and any syllables in violation of this …
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Dealing with linguistic mismatches for automatic speech recognition
… of phonemes, lexical ambiguity, and power of phonotactic constraints provided by phone-level n-grams. In order to address the issues of linguistic mismatches for current ASR systems, my dissertation investigates both knowledge-gnostic and knowledge-agnostic solutions. In the first part, …
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Implicit learning of phonotactics: an example of pure associative learning?
… of nonsense syllables which obeyed artificial phonotactic constraints. For example, /f/ showed up only at the beginning of syllables for some participants (whereas in English, it appears both at the beginning and end of syllables). Participants spoke sequences of these nonsense syllables …