Ideophones are believed to exhibit distinct phonotactic patterns compared regular language, in their expressiveness. Vowel harmony can be observed ideophones Modern Korean. However, over time, Korean has gradually lost its vowel process, due the influx of foreign words, especially from Chinese, and historical sound changes like shift /ɔ/ different types. Previous studies have mainly focused on ...

This study has two distinct, complementary aims. The first is to outline the empirical scope of phonotactic theory, the theory of speakers’ knowledge of possible and impossible (or likely and unlikely) words, and to put forth a simple hypothesis for the architectural underlying this knowledge. The second is to argue that the increasingly popular view of phonotactics and phonotactic learning as ...

This dissertation explores effects of speech perception strategies upon morphological structure. Two factors known to be relevant to the segmentation of words from the speech stream are investigated one prelexical, and one lexical. Prelexically, I examine the role of probabilistic phonotactics. At the lexical level, I investigate the role of lexical frequency. I argue that both factors exert a ...

A phonetically based approach to speech recognition uses speech specific knowledge obtained from phonotactics, phonology and acoustic phonetics to capture relevant phonetic information. Thus, a recognition system based on this approach can make broad classiflcations as well as detailed phonetic distinctions. This paper discusses a framework for developing a phonettcally based recognition system...

A stochastic approach to learning phonology. The model presented captures 7-15% more phonologically plausible underlying forms than a simple majority solution, because it prefers “pure” alternations. It could be useful in cases where an approximate solution is needed, or as a seed for more complex models. A similar process could be involved in some stages of child language acquisition; in parti...

Highly proficient German users of English as a second language, and native speakers of American English, listened to nonsense sequences and responded whenever they detected an embedded English word. The responses of both groups were equivalently facilitated by preceding context that both by English and by German phonotactic constraints forced a boundary at word onset (e.g., lecture was easier t...

Long-distance phonotactics, in which the surface sounds of a language are subject to coocurrence constraints referring to nonadjacent segments, present a difficult learning problem. To acquire such patterns, a learner must find dependencies among distant segments. This paper approaches an idealized version of this problem: how can these patterns even be learned at all? By introducing a learning...