Two experiments explored how children who encounter a new spelling for a phoneme generalize it to novel items. Children ages 5 1/2 to 9 (N = 123) were taught a CVC (consonant–vowel–consonant) nonword containing a new vowel spelling in the middle position (e.g., /gak/ is spelled as giik). They were then asked to spell other nonwords containing the vowel or to judge spellings that had supposedly...

In this paper it is shown that at the edges of prosodic domains, initial consonant and final vowels have more extreme (less reduced) lingual articulations, which are called articulatory strengthening. Linguopalatal contact for consonants and vowels in different prosodic positions was compared, using reiterant-speech versions of sentences with a variety of phrasings read by three speakers of Ame...

The purpose of this paper is to test whether the Simple Syllable Structure (SSS) proposed by Duanmu (1990:[2]) is true of English onsets or not. If the SSS holds for English onset, English onglides should be secondary articulations on the onset consonant rather than separate sounds. We will test this by measuring the duration of the initial consonant –glide combination, to determine whether it ...

The duration of speech segments as a function of position in utterances (initial, roedial, final) was studicd. In the first cxpedment seven Engl/sh speakers read nonsense utterances of the form "say a [bab], say a [bgbab], say a [babgb]," etc. Spectragrams were used to determine the duration of speech segments in the readings. Final syllables were found to be longer than nonfinal syllables. F/h...

1 A challenge for OT 1.1 Compensatory lengthening as weight conservation Compensatory lengthening occurs when the featural content of a nucleus or moraic coda is deleted, or becomes reaffiliated with a nonmoraic position — typically an onset — and the vacated mora, instead of being lost, is retained with new content (Hayes 1989). Compensatory lengthening is most often triggered by the deletion ...

In Southeast Tibet, some Tibeto-Burman languages have apparent retroflex feature floating. Some initial research on this phenomenon shows that different sound categories, such as a post consonant r and vowels (or finals), are not totally independent. This is likely the result of evolution one category toward another, mechanism recombination between basic consonant. approach can be applied to st...

This study aims to reconstruct a change in the system of word stress Umpithamu, language Cape York Peninsula, northeastern Australia. The involves shift parsing direction, from left-aligned as found most Pama-Nyungan languages, anchored at right edge. process is reconstructed using evidence changes root structure and size, combination with specifics synchronic stress. broader context for analys...

Abstract
 The phonological structure of Turkish does not allow word-initial consonant clusters. That is, the syllable onset position borrowed vocabulary requires insertion an epenthetic high vowel. This changes by addition extra to word. In schools, all grammar teachers teach those words as if they were one words. However, situation is different phonologically since these are but two Borro...

While theoretical phonologists rely on abstract phonetic features to account for the variety of phonological patterns that exist in the world’s languages, it is unclear whether such abstract representations bear psychological reality. Previous research has shown that learners in artificial grammar learning experiments are able to generalize a newly learned phonological pattern to novel segments...