The so-called overapplication of Coda Neutralization in Korean, the occurrence of a neutralized consonant in a non-neutralizing environment, is often considered as evidence for serial derivation. In this paper I propose that the neutralization effect at surface is not a result of a phonological process at an intermediate level in serial derivation, but due to a constraint requiring the integrit...

The issues this paper addresses are the sonority conversion, which is defined as different ranking of sonority in a certain language, and the case taken from a variety of English. While Rhotic has larger sonority value than Lateral and Nasal in the general ranking, in Present-Day American English the tap, a rhotic, is less sonorous than the lateral and nasals but more sonorous than obstruents. ...

Considering that unconventional writing is an important and necessary part of the acquisition Brazilian Portuguese (BP) orthographic system, we seek: (1) to describe distribution a type error present in this acquisition, transpositions, is, displacements graphemes from their conventional position syllable other positions word; (2) observe what extent aspects such as its (simple or complex) stru...

An essential step to create phonology according to the language production model by Levelt, Roelofs and Meyer is to assemble phonemes into a metrical frame. However, recently, it has been proposed that different languages may rely on different grain sizes of phonological units to construct phonology. For instance, it has been proposed that, instead of phonemes, Mandarin Chinese uses syllables a...

We argue that phonetically invariant realizations of phonological categories imply the synchronic and diachronic imperviousness of such categories to phonological rules and sound laws. We claim that phonetic invariance is the foundation of phonological stability. The category we discuss in this contribution is the pitchaccent. We provide a parametric phonetic description of this phonological ca...

Abstract Prediction underlies many life’s situations including language. Monolinguals and advanced L2 learners use prosodic cues such as stress tone in a word’s first syllable to predict the suffix. To determine whether same findings extend words with non-morphological endings, we investigate Spanish monolinguals of without interpreting experience (stressed, unstressed) syllabic structure (CV, ...

This study examined how two segmental or sound-related factors (crosslanguage perceptual similarity, syllabic context) as well as two lexical or wordrelated factors (word frequency, subjective word familiarity) influenced the production of eight English vowels by 40 Korean children and adults exposed to English in the U.S. for an average of 1 and 7 years. Results of two experiments revealed tha...

GENERATIVE PHONOLOGY [q.v.] aims to construct a predictive theory of natural language sound systems, rooted in a finely-detailed account of the principles defining linguistic representations and the possible relations between them. Within these broad goals, OPTIMALITY THEORY (OT) develops in the context of specific empirical theses about the way phonological systems are organized. We identify t...