This paper discusses the reconstruction of the Elamite language’s phonology from its orthography using the Gradual Learning Algorithm, which was re-purposed to “learn” underlying phonological forms from surface orthography. Practical issues are raised regarding the difficulty of mapping between orthography and phonology, and Optimality Theory’s neglected Lexicon Optimization module is highlighted.

Gillian Gallagher Phonology / Volume 30 / Issue 02 / August 2013, pp 253 ­ 295 DOI: 10.1017/S0952675713000134, Published online: 02 August 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0952675713000134 How to cite this article: Gillian Gallagher (2013). Learning the identity effect as an artificial language: bias and generalisation. Phonology, 30, pp 253­295 doi:10.1017/S09...

This paper sets out to peruse the role of various theories or more precisely, hypotheses invoked in SLA research by surveying three empirical studies pertaining critical period hypothesis phonetics and phonology. In particular, which will be reviewed next section are titled chronological order as (1) A for learning pronounce foreign languages? (Flege, 1987); (2) Reexamining hypothesis: case stu...

0. Introduction In order to understand what is going on when phonology is acquired we clearly need to understand what is being acquired. We need to understand what phonology is, and what aspects of it have to be learned. have deepened our understanding of the phonological component of the human linguistic system, its interfaces with other components and the extent and nature of cross-linguistic...

Are words read visually (by means of a direct mapping from orthography to semantics) or phonologically (by mapping from orthography to phonology to semantics)? The authors addressed this long-standing debate by examining how a large-scale computational model based on connectionist principles would solve the problem and comparing the model's performance to people's. In contrast to previous model...

The contrastive/noncontrastive model developed by Seymour and Seymour (1977) can be applied to the development of a dialect-sensitive phonological assessment that uses a single scoring and test format, regardless of a child's dialect. Through extensive field research, stimulus items were found that respect the phonotactics of African American English (AAE) (i.e., no targets are final consonants...

For adults with low literacy skills, the role of phonology in reading has been fairly well researched, but less is known about the role of morphology in reading. We investigated the contribution of morphological awareness to word reading and reading comprehension and found that for adults with low literacy skills and skilled readers, morphological awareness explained unique variance in word rea...

This paper argues against the hypothesis of a "phonological mind" advanced by Berent. It establishes that there is no evidence that phonology is innate and that, in fact, the simplest hypothesis seems to be that phonology is learned like other human abilities. Moreover, the paper fleshes out the original claim of Philip Lieberman that Universal Grammar predicts that not everyone should be able ...