Many cases of segmental licensing can be shown to have a broader prosodic scope than is suggested by established syllabic analyses. Non-rhoticity is one of a collection of r-related effects in English that illustrate this point. Some of these effects have to do with the licensing of r itself, including in positions that can be specified syllabically only by enriching prosodic theory in undesira...

It has previously been shown that inconsistency in the early morpheme productions of typically developing (TD) children and those with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) can be partly explained by the phonological complexity of the coda. However, it is not yet known whether TD and SLI children have similar underlying processes of morpheme acquisition. Of particular interest is the reported late...

BACKGROUND phonological disorders. AIM to verify the occurrence of vocalic lengthening, through acoustic analysis, in a group of 16 children (8 boys and 8 girls) with evolutive phonological disorders (EPD), who did not present in their speech /R/ and /S/ medial codas; to verify the occurrence percentage of lengthening and omission strategies in the two types of coda. METHOD recordings of 16...

Prosodic Prominence and prosodic boundaries have been shown to effect syllabic durations. However another factor, redundancy, also appears to have a major impact. More common words and words you can easily predict from context (more redundant) tend to be articulated less clearly and so also have a tendency to have shortened syllabic durations. This paper explores the relationship between measur...

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...

This paper presents evidence from two experiments 1. that speakers of English use the phonotactics of English in analyzing speech input, and 2. that their phonotactic knowledge takes the form of categorical constraints stated in terms of phonological categories. Experimental results indicate that the phonotactic effect on ambiguous-segment perception is influenced by the relative markedness of ...

Although developmental dyslexia (DD) is frequently associate with a phonological deficit, the underlying neurobiological cause remains undetermined. Recently, a new model, called "temporal sampling framework" (TSF), provided an innovative prospect in the DD study. TSF suggests that deficits in syllabic perception at a specific temporal frequencies are the critical basis for the poor reading per...

Norris and colleagues (Kinoshita & Norris, 2009; Norris & Kinoshita, 2008; Norris, Kinoshita, & van Casteren, 2010) have suggested that priming effects in the masked prime same-different task are based solely on prelexical orthographic codes. This suggestion was evaluated by examining phonological priming in that task using Japanese-English bilinguals. Targets and reference words were English w...

According to the working memory model, the phonological loop is the component of working memory specialized in processing and manipulating limited amounts of speech-based information. The Children's Test of Nonword Repetition (CNRep) is a suitable measure of phonological short-term memory for English-speaking children, which was validated by the Brazilian Children's Test of Pseudoword Repetitio...