Databases containing lexical properties on any given orthography are crucial for psycholinguistic research. In the last ten years, a number of lexical databases have been developed for Greek. However, these lack important part-of-speech information. Furthermore, the need for alternative procedures for calculating syllabic measurements and stress information, as well as combination of several me...

This study addressed the debate on the primacy of syllable vs. segment (i.e., phoneme) as a functional unit of phonological encoding in syllabic languages by investigating both behavioral and neural responses of Dutch-Cantonese (DC) bilinguals in a color-object picture naming task. Specifically, we investigated whether DC bilinguals exhibit the phonemic processing strategy, evident in monolingu...

this paper presents an investigation of the structure of persian clauses which display verb phrase ellipsis. to this end, verb phrase ellipsis in persian will be discussed in the light of the two theoretically significant approaches to ellipsis, namely, structural versus non-structural. drawing on data from persian and running the independently devised syntactic tests, we will argue that the or...

The concept of syllabic neighbours (words sharing the same first syllable) is central in the interpretive framework of syllabic effects in visual word recognition. However, the definition of this concept remains surprisingly vague, so it is not clear whether or not syllabic competition is driven by words of similar syllabic length. The present study aimed to refine the definition by investigati...

The foot is the prosodic entity typically used to explain metrical phenomena like stress assignment and pitch accentuation. This paper attempts to widen the explanatory role of feet to include not only suprasegmental effects but also segmental behaviour. Segmental properties such as static distribution patterns and dynamic alternation processes are usually explained by referring to another pros...

Korean, a syllable-timed language, has been the subject of much study in theoretical phonology. In particular, the branching hierarchy of the syllable has been a topic of much debate, especially considering the relative simplicity of the syllable, which has a maximal CGVC structure. This essay examines the issue of sub syllabic branching in Korean. In light of an asymmetrically substantial body...

The ability to speak is probably our most complex cognitive-motor skill. It is, moreover, a uniquely human and a universal skill. In speaking, myriad processes involving a wide range of cerebral structures cooperate in the generation of a temporally organized structure, an articulatory pattern that has overt speech as its physical-acoustic effect. The temporal organization of speech is multilev...