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The Acquisition of the Voicing Contrast in English: A Study of Voice Onset Time in Word-Initial Stop Consonants.
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Macken, Marlys A.; Barton, David – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Reports on a longitudinal study of the acquisition of the voicing contrast in American English word-initial stop consonants as measured by voice-onset time. The rate and nature of the developmental process are discussed in relation to two competing models of phonological acquisition and two hypotheses regarding the skills being learned. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition
Modelling Cue Interaction in the Perception of the Voiceless Fricative/Affricate Contrast.
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Faulkner, A.; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Reviews studies in which perceptual cue trading data have been compared with computational models and examines the perception of contrast between the voiceless fricative "s" and the voiceless affricate "ts." Nine subjects listened to a total of 6 tokens each of 193 stimuli and labeled each stimulus as containing either of the…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Comparative Analysis
Integration of Place and Voicing Information in the Identification of Synthetic Stop Consonants
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Oden, Gregg C. – Journal of Phonetics, 1978
A model of phoneme identification is proposed which describes the process by which continuous acoustic featural information about the place of articulation and the voicing of speech sounds is integrated during phoneme identification. (AM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Artificial Speech, Auditory Discrimination
The Limited Use of Distinctive Features and Markedness in Speech Production: Evidence from Speech Error Data.
Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie; Klatt, Dennis H. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
A phoneme confusion matrix consisting of 1,620 spontaneous speech errors was analyzed. It is shown that there is no tendency for linguistically unmarked consonants to replace marked consonants and that sound segment errors almost always involve the movement of unitary segments and not the movement of component distinctive features. (SW)
Descriptors: Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Error Analysis (Language), Language Research
Inherent Variability and the Obligatory Contour Principle.
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Guy, Gregory R.; Boberg, Charles – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Notes that English coronal stop deletion is constrained by the preceding segment, so that stops and sibilants favor deletion more than liquids and nonsibilant fricatives. Suggests the existence of an attractive theoretical integration of categorical and variable processes in the grammar to account for the constraint. (26 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Grammar
On Distributional Properties of Non-Syllabic Vowels in Italian Words.
Salza, Pier Luigi – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1986
Analysis of the distributional properties of non-syllabic vowels within word boundaries in Italian demonstrates: the role of phonological constraints on the distribution of non-syllabic words; the syllabification possibilities within each type of sequence by setting up a structural model; and the phonemic occurrences in vowel sequences collected…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Italian
Some Psychophysical Evidence for Natural Phonological Processes
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Macari, Nicholas J. – Journal of Phonetics, 1978
Stampe's (1969, 1973) hypotheses regarding innate mental phonological processes are tested against some of the extant data on speech perception. (AM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Child Language