The poor reading skills often found in deaf readers are typically explained on the basis of underspecified print-to-sound mapping and poorer use of spoken phonology. Whilst prior research using explicit phonological tasks has shown that deaf readers can use phonological codes when required, an open question is whether congenitally deaf readers can automatically use phonological codes when readi...

in the theory of phrasal phonology and on the basis of the leveling rule, kahnemuyipour (2003) claims that in the stress representation, the words with? symbols in the intonational phrase level, receive secondary stress. the objective of this article is scrutinizing the intonational evidence for secondary stress in persian. analyzing the data which had secondary stress and were produced by the ...

Objectives: Phonological awareness is an extensive skill for detecting, manipulating, or analyzing the components of oral language, apart from their referents. The phonological awareness consists of different levels from the simplest to the most difficult level. We considered two Persian phonological awareness tests (visual and auditory) with different subtests. This research aimed to investiga...

Background: phonological awareness in primary school students. Aim: to verify the improvement of phonological awareness in primary school students after a speech and language stimulation program. Method: 20 students with the worst results in the first literacy exam were selected. Phonological awareness tests were analyzed at the beginning and at the end of the stimulation program. Results: most...

It is proposed that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity. The phonetically best distinctions are claimed to be those which divide syllables into groups which are phonetically most distinct from each other. Phonologically complex distinctions are those which exceed an upper threshold in the number of phonological predicates to which th...

The representation of phonological features in the mental lexicon has been examined using eventrelated brain responses, such as mismatch negativeity (MMN; an automatic auditory change detection response in the brain) or the P350 component (a correlate of lexical activation). This presentation will summarize some MMN studies that demonstrate support for (i) models proposing abstract underspecifi...

The aim of the present study was to compare the phonological errors that occur in the speech of two 12-year-old Greek children with profound hearing loss. The first child used a cochlear implant (CI) and the second one used hearing aids (HA). The children’s phonological development has been assessed using the Phonetic and Phonological Development Test (PPDT), (Levandi et al. 1995). In alignment...

in order to simplify the pronunciation ofthe adult's words,children use phonological processes inthe initial years oftheir speech growth.the present study aims at considering phonological processes ina group oftwo tofour-year old farsi speaking children.the results indicate that itisnot possible to correctly and precisely account forthe occurrences ofsuch processes in children’s pronunciat...