The present study investigated whether a temporal hierarchical structure favors implicit learning. An artificial pitch grammar implemented with a set of tones was presented in two different temporal contexts, notably with either a strongly metrical structure or an isochronous structure. According to the Dynamic Attending Theory, external temporal regularities can entrain internal oscillators th...

Examples of non-local phonological processes that are bound by prosodic domains are expected in the world’s phonologies. In other words, we should anticipate cases where the metrical foot constrains vowel harmony. Intuitively, it seems like a natural interaction. However, the notion of vowel harmony bound by the metrical foot has only been sparsely proposed in the literature (Abu-Salim 1987, Hu...

This study investigated the time course of phonological encoding during speech production planning. Previous research has shown that conceptual/semantic information precedes syntactic information in the planning of speech production and that syntactic information is available earlier than phonological information. Here, we studied the relative time courses of the two different processes within ...

Metrical task systems (MTS), introduced by Borodin, Linial, and Saks [5], is a cost minimization problem defined on a metric space (X, dX) and informally described as follows: A given system has a set of internal states X . The aim of the system is to perform a given sequence of tasks. The performance of each task has a certain cost that depends on the task and the state of the system. The syst...

Abstract: Previous phonetic studies of metrical prominence have primarily focused on its acoustic manifestations, including pitch, intensity, duration, spectral tilt, etc. In this paper we outline our new research program in which we explore jaw displacement patterns as another articulatory reflex of metrical prominence. We present our studies of English and Japanese in some detail, which show ...

In this paper we introduce a new model of on-line problems called metrical service systems. An instance of a metrical service system is speci ed by a metric space M and a set R of requests, where each r 2 R is a subset of M . There is one server that can move in M . At every time step a request r 2 R is speci ed, and the server must move to a point x 2 r to serve the request r. We also have the...

1.1 The theory of extrametricality (Hayes 1980 et seq., Prince 1983, Harris 1983) has played a crucial role in our understanding of metrical systems. According to this theory, final constituents may be excluded from the parse. As a result, these constituents are effectively absent when it comes to the calculation of stress.1 This is the explanation which is provided to account for the widesprea...

ing away from the role of PARSE-SYLL in the results derived immediately above, the ranking arguments giving the partial metrical transparency result in Selayarese are summarized as follows. (59) Summary of Ranking Arguments •ALIGN-R (PrWd, {F}) » HEAD-DEP: Epenthesis does not yield preantepenultimate stress: sahalákku, not sá:halakku •HEAD-DEP » ALIGN-R (F, PrWd): Epenthesis into final syllable...