The present study aims at the description and analysis of the phonological and lexical development of a child who is acquiring Farsi as his first language. The child's language production at the holophrastic stage of language development, mainly single words, is observed and recorded longitudinally for nearly seven months since he was 16 months old until he turned 23 months. An attempt is made ...

PURPOSE There is a paucity of information detailing the phonological skills of Spanish-English bilingual children and comparing that information to information concerning the phonological skills of predominantly English-speaking (PE) and predominantly Spanish-speaking (PS) children. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between amount of output (i.e., percentage of time each...

Evidence derived from functional imaging and brain-lesion studies has shown a strong left lateralization for language, complementary right hemisphere dominance visuospatial abilities. Nevertheless, the symmetrical division of two hemispheres gives no reason complexity cognitive operations involved in carrying out linguistic task. In fact, growing number neuroimaging neurostimulation suggest pos...

Although dyslexia is a common consequence of brain damage there are few studies about therehabilitation of this disorder. Cognitive Neuropsychology models of reading have been used to describe severalsyndromes of acquired dyslexia. Phonological dyslexia is a reading disorder characterized by a dysfunctionalgrapheme-to-phoneme conversion procedure, which affects the ability to read low frequency...

The Role of the Syllable in Speech Segmentation In previous papers we proposed that the syllable is a natural unit in speech processing (Mehler, Segui, and Frauenfelder 1981; Mehler 1981; Segui 1984). According to this position, syllabic units are constructed from the continuous speech signal and constitute the input for lexical access and eventually for more detailed phonemic analysis. This hy...

Liangmai, a Tibeto-Burman member spoken in North East India (NEI), has twenty consonant phonemes and six vowel with four contrastive tones. Three stops three nasals permitted at the end of syllable all consonants occurs beginning syllable. A voiceless libio-dental fricative which is rare other NEI languages major consonant. Vowel system several diphthongs. The close central unrounded /ɨ/ can ap...

The Role of the Syllable in Speech Segmentation In previous papers we proposed that the syllable is a natural unit in speech processing (Mehler, Segui, and Frauenfelder 1981; Mehler 1981; Segui 1984). According to this position, syllabic units are constructed from the continuous speech signal and constitute the input for lexical access and eventually for more detailed phonemic analysis. This hy...