It is well known that speech perception is deeply affected by the phoneme categories of the native language. Recent studies have found that phonotactics, i.e., constraints on the cooccurrence of phonemes within words, also have a considerable impact on speech perception routines. For example, Japanese does not allow (nonnasal) coda consonants. When presented with stimuli that violate this const...

In this paper we discuss the phonotactics of phonological segments Ganderbal Kohistani. An effort is made to describe quintessential processes that operate in The aim find out relation Kohistani with other Dardic languages, especially Kashmiri. addition, try analyze whether multilingualism affects basic phonology We also explore different sound changes take place Urdu loanwords Kohistani.Data a...

this study presents an overview of the different strategies that persian learners of english employ to deal with initial clusters. while vowel epenthesis appears to be the most widespread repair strategy to conform such clusters to persian phonotactics, the location of the epenthetic vowel varies. in this paper, we investigate two approaches that seek to explain the epenthetic site. the first o...

The set of neutral vowels in the vowel-harmony pattern found in Modern Korean sound-symbolic words is traditionally considered to consist of two members: [i] and [8]. Some authors have tentatively put forward the hypothesis that [u] and [y] are also neutral. A corpus study on the phonotactics of Korean sound-symbolic vowel harmony provides quantitative support both for the traditional understan...

This paper examines how the strategies for L2 production utilized by foreign language learners affect the performance of non-native speech recognition. Producing English consonant clusters are the most problematic for Korean learners of English because of difference between Korean and English phonotactics. The strategies of Korean learners in producing English consonant clusters entail a large ...

A new language model is proposed to cope with the demands for recognizing out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words not registered in the lexicon. This language model is a class N-gram incorporating a set of word models that reflect the statistical characteristics of the phonotactics, which depend on the lexical classes. Utilization of class-dependency enhances recognition accuracy and enables identificati...

This paper presents a testbed for developing multilingual phonotactic descriptions that employs finite state methods to represent the phonotactics of one or more languages. The motivation for this work is to make an extensive range of phonotactic descriptions of varying granularity available for speech technology applications. We discuss the design of the phonotactic testbed and how various mod...

This paper demonstrates the role of morphological alternations in learning novel phonotactic patterns. In an artificial grammar learning task, adult learners were exposed to a phonotactic pattern in which the first and last consonant agreed in voicing. Long-distance phonotactics encoded as strictly piecewise languages suggest that first-last phonotactic patterns should be unattested in natural ...