We report the case of a patient suffering from a severe neologistic jargon sparing number words. Neologisms resulted from pervasive phoneme substitutions with frequent preservation of the overall syllabic structure (e.g. /revolver/ ® /reveltil/). Word and nonword reading, as well as picture naming, were equally affected. No significant influence of frequency, imageability, and grammatical class...

The purpose of this study is to discuss the common phonetically altered English loanwords used by Urdu speakers. A set three hundred words was analyzed for phonological alterations. areas technology, automobile registration, entertainment, and politics contained most high-frequency loanwords. Through study, it found that native tongue significantly impacts how are pronounced. Most frequently, t...

In this paper, I study the production of consonant clusters by Greek children and examine the consequences of the acquisition data for phonological theory, with particular emphasis on the word initial position. Using a non-word repetition test, I tested the order of acquisition of word initial and word medial sT, TT and TR clusters in 59 children. The results provide evidence against any analys...

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...

A central aspect of speech fluency in a foreign language is natural phrasing (word grouping). It is often assumed that syntactic principles predict phrasing adequately. This point of view is contradicted by an extensive body of psycholinguistic experimentation. A timing model was developed based on psycholinguistic evidence [Zellner, B. (1996). Structures temporelles et structures prosodiques e...

ABSTRACT Purpose: to verify whether there is a relation between linguistic age and performance in phonological awareness of children presented with developmental language disorder. Methods: retrospective study comprising 53 disorder aged 4 7 years old. Their diagnosis followed the inclusion criteria internationally described Brazilian standardized tests for assessment were used. All underwent s...

Abstract Extensive research has shown that phonological awareness including phoneme skills are vital when children acquire literacy in alphabetic languages especially English. Furthermore, on developmental dyslexia (DD) English been conducted with research-informed/well-established definitions of DD. This is because compared to other languages, the prevalence DD high, and thus form a large mino...