the spreading activation models of mental lexicon's structure have presented the lexicon in multiple layers (semantic- syntactic- phonological). each layer is a network of nodes which are associated by links. the nature of these links is different from layer to layer. the literature for english speakers has shown that in the phonological layer, phonological forms of words have been linked based...

0. Overview In this paper I argue that Optimality Theory provides for an explanatory model of syllabic parsing in English and French. The argument is based on psycholinguistic facts that have been mysterious up to now. This argument is further buttressed by the computational implementation developed here. This model is important for several reasons. First, it provides a demonstration of how OT ...

ABSTRACT The paper discusses the main principles in designing and annotating speech corpora within framework of Saint Petersburg phonological school, provides examples using corpus data phonetic research. One major that we follow is to analyse material at all levels: from segmental intonational, including disfluencies. During annotation, suggest listening each sound isolation (without knowing i...

This paper analyses H(igh) tone shift and spreading in Koshikijima Japanese, a highly endangered language spoken in the south of Japan. It is a moraic language as opposed to a syllabic one where an H tone is placed on a certain mora by counting the number of moras from the end of the word. However, this moraic principle is often violated if the H tone is assigned by rule to the second, i.e. non...

The effects of word frequency (WF) and syllable frequency (SF) are well-established phenomena in domain such as spoken production in alphabetic languages. Chinese, as a non-alphabetic language, presents unique lexical and phonological properties in speech production. For example, the proximate unit of phonological encoding is syllable in Chinese but segments in Dutch, French or English. The pre...

The disadvantage in producing the past tense of regular relative to irregular verbs shown by some patients with non-fluent aphasia has been alternatively attributed (a) to the failure of a specific rule-based morphological mechanism, or (b) to a more generalised phonological impairment that penalises regular verbs more than irregular owing to the on-average greater phonological complexity of re...

Malay is described as an alphabetic language with salient syllabic structures. In our attempt to develop a reading intervention program for early Malay struggling readers, word analysis of Malay children’s stories was conducted. Additionally, in order to have a better understanding of Malay word structures, a cross-linguistic comparison with English was attempted. The results indicate significa...