Purpose: To verify the occurrence of the phonological process of plosives and fricatives devoicing in children with phonological disorders. The following variables were involved: most affected phonemes, severity of phonological disorder, and age. Methods: Participants were 50 children, with an average age of 6 years and 5 months. Speech data were collected by means of the Avaliação Fonológica d...

Background. The notion ‘basic color term’ (BCT) was first defined by Berlin & Kay (1969, B&K). Based on a sample of 98 spoken languages, B&K argued that languages show considerable variation in their BCT systems, but that the attested variation is constrained by a hierarchy according to which BCTs appear in a language in a predictable order. B&K identify seven stages of complexity in this hiera...

This study investigates whether, in addition to learning the first-order regularities between individual words and objects under a cross-situational learning context, adult learners are sensitive to the second-order correlations between the phonological features of labels and the visuo-perceptual features of objects and whether they can use such features as a cue in categorizing novel objects. ...

Since recursion is a fundamental property of human languages, it is puzzling that we regularly find cases where recursion is impossible or restricted. In this paper we argue that these restrictions follow from an independently necessary property associated with individual lexical items, which encodes sensitivity to phonological properties. These restrictions must be stated on the output of the ...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE Brain structures and their white matter connections that may contribute to emotion processing and may be vulnerable to disruption by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurring in childhood have not been thoroughly explored. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The current investigation examines the relationship between diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics, including fractional anisot...

This paper proposes an algorithm for finding phonological phrase boundaries in sentences with neutral focus spoken in both normal and fast tempos. A perceptual experiment is designed using Praat’s experiment MFC program to investigate the phonological phrase boundaries. Phonological phrasing and its relation to syntactic structure in the framework of the endbased rules proposed by (Selkirk, 198...

Computational linguistics is an application of computer science which presents interesting challenges from the programming methodology point of view. Developing a realistic platform for the treatment of a natural language in its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and ultimately semantic aspects demands a principled modular architecture with complex cooperation between the various layers. R...

The effect of phonological similarity on L1–L2 cognate translation priming was examined with Japanese– English bilinguals. According to the phonological account, the cognate priming effect for different-script bilinguals consists of additive effects of phonological and conceptual facilitation. If true, then the size of the cognate priming effect would be directly influenced by the phonological ...

Children of immigrant families often have great difficulties with language and disadvantages in schooling. Phonological problems appear especially common. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine whether music training has a positive effect on the phonological awareness in these children. The effects of a music program were compared with an established phonological skills program and with a...

The present experiments assessed false memories for critical items (e.g., dog) following the presentation of semantic associates (e.g., hound, puppy), phonological associates (e.g., log, dot), or hybrid lists of semantic and phonological associates (e.g., hound, dot). Experiment 1 indicated that the addition of only three phonological associates to a list of 10 semantic associates doubled the r...