Most of the prosody perception tests do not capture how listeners perceive and interpret stress, tone, intonation in process listening comprehension. The current study developed English Prosodic Phonology Processing Test (EPPPT). A sample 240 Luo speaking high school students were tested using Confirmatory Factory Analysis (CFA) a multi-trait multimethod matrix. Four traits measured including w...

In classic generative phonology, linguistic competence in the area of sound structure is modeled by a phonological grammar. The theory takes a grammatical form because it posits an inventory of categories (such as features, phonemes, syllables or feet) and a set of principles which specify the well-formed combinations of these categories. In any particular language, a particular set of principl...

ERP responses to spoken words are sensitive to both rhyming effects and effects of associated spelling patterns. Are such effects automatically elicited by spoken words or dependent on selectively attending to phonology? To address this question, ERP responses to spoken word pairs were investigated under two equally demanding listening tasks that directed selective attention either to sub-sylla...

[email protected] 2 Sign-Based Morphology: a declarative theory of phonology-morphology interleaving Cemil Orhan Orgun University of California, Berkeley 1. Setting the stage The issue: Is phonology-morphology interleaving derivational? When the issue of serialism is discussed, the issue of cyclic application of phonology is often not distinguished from rule ordering within a cycle, the...

Phonology provides a system by which a limited number of types of phonetic variation can signal communicative intentions at multiple levels of linguistic analysis. Because phonologies vary from language to language, acquiring the phonology of a language demands learning to attribute phonetic variation appropriately. Here, we studied the case of pitch-contour variation. In English, pitch contour...

Phonetics attempts to describe and understand how speech is produced and perceived; phonology attempts to understand the patterning—in general, the behavior—of speech sounds in particular languages and in all languages. Is phonetics part of phonology? This straightforward question has received various answers at different points in the history of linguistics. In this paper I attempt to document...

This paper examines a number of phenomena in German phonology that bear on the theory of Lexical Phonology (Kiparsky 1982, 1985, Halle/Mohanan 1985, Halle/Vergnaud 1987a, b). It is argued that in order to account for these phenomena, it is not necessary to assume an interleaving between morphological and phonological processes, as in the version of Lexical Phonology of Kiparsky (1982, 1985) and...

Blevins’s Evolutionary Phonology attempts to derive most if not all synchronic phonological patterns from diachronic changes: “[R]ecurrent synchronic sound patterns are a direct reflection of their diachronic origins, and, more specifically...regular phonetically based sound change is the common source of recurrent sound patterns. Evolutionary Phonology...investigates this hypothesis and explor...

In previous studies of Japanese intonational phonology, levels of prosodic constituents above the Major Phrase have not received much attention. This paper argues that at least two prosodic levels exist above the Major Phrase in Japanese. Through a detailed investigation of the intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese, we argue that each syntactic clause projects its own Intonational ...