Certain assumptions about the nature of phonology must be considered, even lacking agreement on which assumptions to make. First and foremost, deciding whether phonology is based on rules or constraints, or a mix of the two, requires having objectively expressible statements of phonologies within different frameworks whose consequences can be compared. Therefore the theories must have a definit...

Computational phonology approaches the study of sound patterns in the world’s languages from a computational perspective. This article explains this perspective and its relevance to phonology. A restrictive, universal property of phonological patterns— they are regular—is established, and the hypothesis that they are subregular is presented. This article is intended primarily for phonologists w...

Clusters are described by phonotactics, which determines phonological conditions and constraints on the occurrence or co-occurrence of sounds in a given language (e.g., [pstr-] in Polish pstrąg ‘trout’, [-ps] in English lapse). Syllables, morphemes or words serve as domains of phonotactics. However, the functions of phonotactics – to achieve easily pronounceable and perceptable sequences – may ...

This book contains a study of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, as well as an overview of the historical development of the Mongolic languages. The description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, defined as the variety of Halh Mongolian spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia, is based on original data collected by the authors from Ulaan...

5. Some caveats -The phonetics/phonology interface is a broad topic that has been considered from many points of views. -Extensive recent literature in acquisition, psycholinguistics, role of the lexicon, role of speech perception (See among others, recent LabPhon volumes, Burton-Roberts et al. 2000, Hume and Johnson 2001, Bod et al. 2003) -Conclusion recently argued for by Pierrehumbert (2003,...

Maillart and Parisse found out that French children with specific language impairment (SLI) presented strong difficulties in phonology when compared with normally-developing children matched by MLU (NLD). Some of the youngest children from this study were followed to provide developmental information about their language deficit. Children were tested again in the same way as before (free sponta...