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Direct linkBerent, Iris; Harder, Katherine; Lennertz, Tracy – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2011
Across languages, onsets with large sonority distances are preferred to those with smaller distances (e.g., "bw greater than bd greater than lb"; Greenberg 1978). Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 2004) attributes such facts to grammatical restrictions that are universally active in all grammars. To test this hypothesis, here we…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Phonology, Preschool Children, Language Research
Berent, Iris; Lennertz, Tracy – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Languages are known to exhibit universal restrictions on sound structure. The source of such restrictions, however, is contentious: Do they reflect abstract phonological knowledge, or properties of linguistic experience and auditory perception? We address this question by investigating the restrictions on onset structure. Across languages, onsets…
Descriptors: Phonology, Auditory Perception, Acoustics, Language Processing
