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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"phonotactics"”.
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Consonant cluster phonotactics : a perceptual approach
This dissertation deals with deletion and epenthesis processes conditioned or constrained by the consonantal environment, essentially consonant deletion, vowel epenthesis and vowel deletion. It is argued that the standard generative approach to these processes, which relies on the syllable and the …
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Unsupervised learning of lexical subclasses from phonotactics
… typically differ in their phonology and phonotactics, the native words and the loanwords of the borrower language can also exhibit dierent phonology/ phonotactics. Accordingly, it has been proposed that the phonotactics of languages such as Japanese is better explained if words are …
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Implicit learning of phonotactics: an example of pure associative learning?
In order to study the processes of implicit learning in speech production, research participants were exposed to sequences 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, …
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The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/
… not repair any illegal sequences in the native phonotactics of the borrowing languages. Hungarian is a particularly interesting case of a seemingly unnecessary adaptation: in the native phonology, both singletons and geminates can be found in word-final and intervocalic position (where loan …
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Processing of Underlying and Surface Phonological Representations In Visual Word Recognition
… surface representations was conditioned by coda phonotactics. These two levels of representation did not differ in either reaction time or acceptability rate for the two stop-stop codas (/kt, pt/), but the underlying representation produced faster reaction time and higher acceptability rate than …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
… To address the issue of the L2-L1 effect on phonotactics, I examine production and perception of “illegal” consonant clusters in two populations of bilingual speakers: L1 Brazilian Portuguese/L2 English and L1 Spanish/L2 English. Both language pairings exemplify phonotactic constraint …
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Allomorphic Variation of Definite Articles in Jersey: a Sonority Based Account
… analyze the allomorphic variation. Using Jersey phonotactics, this thesis first puts forth a Jersey specific sonority hierarchy and then utilizes that hierarchy and principles of syllabification to syllabify phrases containing definite articles. Then using sonority based principles, such as the …
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Allomorphic Variation of Definite Articles in Jersey: a Sonority Based Account
… analyze the allomorphic variation. Using Jersey phonotactics, this thesis first puts forth a Jersey specific sonority hierarchy and then utilizes that hierarchy and principles of syllabification to syllabify phrases containing definite articles. Then using sonority based principles, such as the …
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An investigation into the phenological and morphological integration of German loanwords into Oshiwambo
… widely in terms of phonemic inventories and phonotactics. Borrowing of words from German to Oshiwambo required phonological and morphological processes to enable the transfer of characteristics of one language into the other. The study identified and described the phonological and …
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Investigating the Mechanisms Behind Phonotactic Learning From Recent Production Experience
… that adults can implicitly learn artificial phonotactics constraints from experience producing syllables that contain those constraints, and that this learning is reflected in their speech errors. However, second-order constraints in which the placement of a consonant depends on another …
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Learning phonotactic constraints in the production of non-native consonant clusters, as reflected in speech errors
… and unmarked consonant clusters under artificial phonotactics constraints, following training in articulating the unattested segments. If speakers are sensitive to markedness in unfamiliar consonant clusters and capable of learning recently encountered patterns, movement errors involving the …
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English loanwords in Thai and optimality theory
… clusters is always retained if it fits the Thai phonotactics, as in /gruup/ `group' -4 [kruip]. In coda, consonant clusters must be simplified. Consonant clusters in the English source are divided into five main subgroups. Sometimes Thais retain a segment adjacent to a vowel and delete the edge, …
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Automatic Dialect and Accent Recognition and its Application to Speech Recognition
… novel modeling approaches -- Discriminative Phonotactics and kernel-based methods. We test our best performing approach on four broad Arabic dialects, ten Arabic sub-dialects, American English vs. Indian English accents, American English Southern vs. Non-Southern, American dialects at the …
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When life gives you lemons, make a left: Investigation of contextualization of learning in speech production using speech errors
Language production is a flexible yet complex system and is constantly updated by new experience. Within this system, implicit phonotactic learning provides a window into how speakers acquire and generalize rules that govern sound patterns. This thesis investigates how such rules are represented, …
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“The furious friend whacked with books” interferes: The effect of concurrent experiences of English on the learning of artificial phonotactic rules
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Implicit learning of distributional patterns in linguistic and non-linguistic sequence production
Speakers implicitly learn phonotactic patterns while speaking syllables. Evidence for this learning appears in speakers’ changing speech error distributions when tasked with rapidly reading sequences of syllables that are generated according to various phonotactic rules (Dell, Reed, Adams, & Meyer, …
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Feld - fällt - fehlt : Untersuchungen zur Phonologie-Morphosyntax-Schnittstelle bei Kindern und Erwachsenen
Neben der Frequenz eines cues ist es dessen Zuverlässigkeit, die Kindern hilft, die an sie gerichtete Sprache zu segmentieren, Worteinheiten zu erkennen sowie diese syntaktisch zu kategorisieren. Im Deutschen weist die Subsilbe „Langvokal+Konsonant+/t/“ (z.B. in fehlt, wohnt) zuverlässig auf eine …
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Immediate transfer of learning from speech perception to speech production
Adults can rapidly learn 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 …