This article provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of Sistani Persian spoken in Iranian Sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes. A representative selection of processes in the language is examined in reference to conditioning by surrounding segments and conditioning in reference to syllable structure. While assimilation and dissimilation a...

The correct use of an affix, such as the English plural suffix, may reflect mastery of a morphological process but it may also depend on children's syntactic, semantic and phonological abilities. The present paper reports a set of experiments in support of this latter view, specifically focusing on the importance of the phonological make-up of plural forms for both production and comprehension....

Building on the contemporary functional phonology, the present paper posits physical groundings in coda maximization. The four sorts of conditioning consonants that commonly undergo the syllabification stem from the articulations that preferentially affiliate to stressed syllable codas: contact of the tongue for the American English tap, no incompatibility for the British English glottal stop, ...

This single-subject case study evaluates effects of treatment of a complex onset on the sound system of a monolingual Spanish-speaking child (female, aged 3;9) with phonological delay. Pre-treatment, the child excluded all consonant+liquid clusters, as well as tap /[symbol: see text]/ and trill /r/. Immediately following training on /f[symbol: see text]-/ in non-words, the child generalized acr...

Modern Persian permits coda clusters, many of which violate the Sonority Sequencing Principle. In a syllable counting task, Persian speakers consistently perceived clusters in CVCC target items as monosyllabic, whereas English speakers generally perceived clusters existing in English as monosyllabic but those not existing in English as bi-syllabic. Moreover, the latter were perceived as monosyl...

In this article we present evidence from several languages that rhotic plus high front vocoid sequences (e.g. /rj ri/ or the reverse /jr ir/) exhibit various avoidance strategies; e.g. either the /r/ or the vocoid changes into some other sound or deletes, or these sequences simply do not occur. We demonstrate that the avoidance of such sequences does not always follow from more general co-occur...

This paper investigated how Japanese listeners perceived words in a noisy environment. The data of a word identification in noise experiment reported in Yoneyama (2002) were analyzed. There are three main findings. First, more than 86% of the total responses correctly reproduced the pitch accent patterns of the stimulus words, suggesting Japanese listeners hardly misperceived pitch accent patte...

The purpose of this study is to address the acquisition of syllable structure by Russianspeaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). We report results of a pseudo-word repetition task in which syllable number and syllable complexity are manipulated. This study employed a non-equivalent groups design in which nineteen participants were classified into an SLI impaired group (6) and ...