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Peer reviewedGuy, 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
Peer reviewedStuddert-Kennedy, Michael – Language and Speech, 1980
Reviews research on prosody and segmental perception, segmentation and invariance, categorical perception of speech and nonspeech, feature detectors, scaling speech sounds to an auditory-articulatory space, acoustic-phonetic dependencies within the syllable, higher order (nonphonetic) factors in the comprehension of fluent speech, and cerebral…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Auditory Perception, Children
Direct linkStokes, Stephanie F.; Wong, Anita M-Y.; Fletcher, Paul; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: Recent research suggests that nonword repetition (NWR) and sentence repetition (SR) tasks can be used to discriminate between children with SLI and their typically developing age-matched (TDAM) and younger (TDY) peers. Method: Fourteen Cantonese-speaking children with SLI and 30 of their TDAM and TDY peers were compared on NWR and SR…
Descriptors: Memory, Sentences, Language Impairments, Phonetics
