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	High vowel phonotactics in central Australian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Phonotactic rules on the other hand are not so readily seen as subject to regional influences.
		Phonotactics known to be in part areal in Australia are (1) intervocalic clusters of three consonants (Dixon 1980:166), and (2) the range of word-final segments -- see for instance Dixon (1980:207-212,241-245)'s summary.
		We show that a particular phonotactic contraint affecting vowels is partly areal in nature, and thereby widen the class of phonotactic rules which operate across a linguistic area.
	www.anu.edu.au /linguistics/nash/abstracts/iCu.html (336 words)

	Phonotactics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phonotactics defines permissible syllable structure, consonant clusters, and vowel sequences by means of phonotactical constraints.
		In general, the rules of phonotactics operate around the sonority hierarchy, stipulating that the nucleus has maximal sonority and that sonority decreases as you move away from the nucleus.
		The voiceless alveolar fricative [s] is lower on the sonority hierarchy than the alveolar lateral approximant [l], so the combination /sl/ is permitted in onsets and /ls/ is permitted in codas, but /ls/ is not allowed in onsets and /sl/ is not allowed in codas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phonotactics (458 words)

	German Phonotactics
		The definition of the event-based phonotactic network is based on melodies and phonological event structures as specified in section 4.
		The declarations relevant for the event-based phonotactic net for German are the initial node ``0'' and the final node ``end''.
		For example both the arcs from ``0'' to ``peak'' and from ``peak'' to ``end'' may describe an event of phonation type with property voiced; it may be the case that this is a single voicing event which is consistent throughout the syllable.
	www.ccl.kuleuven.be /LKR/html/tr29/node6.html (534 words)

	SWAP Abstract: Luce / Large
		University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Previous research has demonstrated that increases in probabilistic phonotactics facilitate spoken word processing (e.g., Pitt and Samuel, 1995; Vitevitch and Luce, 1999), whereas increased competition among lexical representations is typically associated with slower and less accurate recognition (e.g., Luce and Pisoni, 1998).
		We examined the combined effects of probabilistic phonotactics and lexical competition by generating words and nonwords that varied orthogonally on phonotactics and similarity neighborhood density.
		However, one anomalous result emerged: Certain stimuli with high probability phonotactics and low neighborhood density were processed far more slowly than predicted by a simple model in which effects of phonotactics and density are additive.
	www.isca-speech.org /archive/swap/swap_111.html (262 words)

	SWAP Abstract: Dumay et al. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The present study seeks to examine the effects of native phonotactic constraints on segmentation of a nonnative language.
		Since phonotactic cues help to solve the segmentation problem in native listening, and processing of a nonnative language is influenced by the native language, one wonders how nonnative segmentation is influenced by native phonotactic alignment or misalignment.
		The results of the present study can confirm the role of phonotactics in segmenting continuous speech and shed light on the how nonnative segmentation is influenced by both native and nonnative phonotactic constraints.
	www.isca-speech.org /archive/swap/swap_143.html (306 words)

	Phonetics
		the phonotactic restrictions or tactical behavior of ámman îar phonemes (phonotactics).
		The ámman îar diphthongs are not directly traceable to the protolanguage but seem to have developed early in the development of the modern language.
		Phonotactics constrain the arrangements (or 'tactic behavior') of the phonemes that occur in the language.
	www.graywizard.net /Conlinguistics/phonetics.htm (1243 words)

	The New Athenian - Why Chinese Rules XOXOXO
		As with complex phonotactics, tonality can be a great hindrance to learning pronunciation, thus again emphasizing differences between natives and newcomers.
		In summary, Chinese is the most progressive language in the world, though it could benefit from a richer phonetic reservoir which would allow for fewer homonyms, thus making it viable for removing its tones and for having it written unambiguously in a simple alphabet.
		Though slightly encumbered by the slight phonotactical rules, requiring changes to pronunciation (and thus writing) when particles are added, it is still almost 100% phonemic.
	note.amherst.edu /thread.jsp?forum=3&thread=3966 (2639 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The area which is concerned with the possible sequences of sounds in a language is phonotactics.
		For instance, there is a word fact in English with a syllable-final /-kt/ but there is no word ctaf as /kt-/ cannot occur at the beginning of a syllable.
		Another example of a phonotactic restriction can be seen with the vowel /æ;/ which occurs in closed syllables but not in open ones, e.g.
	www.uni-essen.de /ELE/LL_Phonotactics.htm (93 words)

	Syllable Structure and the Distribution of Phonemes in English Syllables
		In describing the phonotactics (patterning of phonemes) of English syllables, linguists have focused on absolute restrictions concerning which phonemes may occupy which slots of the syllable.
		The idea of considering phonotactic constraints as evidence for syllable structure is not new.
		We have shown that statistical techniques reveal phonotactic patterns in English that are very similar to the inviolable phonotactic restrictions that have been noted in other languages.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~bkessler/SyllStructDistPhon/CVC.html (8182 words)

	Acoustical Society of America -Using Instinctive "Phonotactic" Rules To Perceive Phonetically Ambiguous Word Segments
		shifted by the phonotactics of English: listeners hear the illegal sound only when the acoustic evidence is overwhelming.
		According to the rule-based theory, plausibility is determined by consulting a phonotactic rule.
		phonotactics applies uniformly and impartially in all contexts.
	www.acoustics.org /press/134th/moreton.htm (1444 words)

	Probabilistic Phonotactics and Morphological Productivity
		As a first step towards investigating the relationship between phonotactics and productivity, Hay (2000) reported a correlation between the phonotactics of a set of 12 English consonant-final prefixes and consonant-initial suffixes, and their degree of morphological productivity.
		For example, the probability of the junctural phonotactics in investment was calculated as the probability of encountering a coda-onset transition, multiplied by the probability of /st.m/ given we are dealing with a coda-onset transition.
		The more wellformed the phonotactic boundary tended to be, the less productive the affix was.
	www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz /jen/documents/haybaayen_esse.htm (2082 words)

	NYU Department of Linguistics: Faculty: Lisa Davidson
		Phonotactics and Articulatory Coordination in Foreign Language Acquisition and Loan Phonology.
		Coordination refers to timing patterns in speech, such as the duration of a sound (like the /r/ in "rat"), or how much overlap exists among the articulations of adjacent sounds (does the tongue start moving to make the /a/ before it finishes producing the /r/?).
		The relationship between the perception of non-native phonotactics and loanword adaptation.
	homepages.nyu.edu /~ld43 (739 words)

	Conference Materials
		This paper presents experimental evidence (1) that speakers of English know the phonotactics of English, (2) that they apply that knowledge in analyzing speech input, and (3) that phonotactic knowledge takes the form of constraints stated in terms of phonological categories.
		We replicate a result originally due to Massaro and Cohen (1983) in a way which challenges both McClelland and Elman's (1986) TRACE model of phonotactics as an emergent phenomenon of lexical statistics, and derivational, rule-based theories of phonotactics (Chomsky and Halle 1968).
		More recently, some psychologists have suggested instead that phonotactics is a side effect of the lexicon, caused by the frequency of some sequences and the rarity of others.
	cognet.mit.edu /library/conferences/paper?paper_id=1838 (369 words)

	NWO - Gradient Phonotactics in Optimality Theory
		Kager has recently started a 5-year VICI-research project "Phonotactic constraints for speech segmentation: the case of second language acquisition".
		His planned research is to test the predictions of this theory using behavioral experiments and studies of language acquisition.
		The theoretical side of joint work will focus on the development of a model of the learning of rankings that are based on lexical frequency.
	www.nwo.nl /projecten.nsf/pages/2300134067 (194 words)

	John Fischer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some languages' phonotactic rules can be fully enumerated simply by describing the restrictions on the forms that a single syllable of speech can take; such is generally the case in the major East Asian languages.
		For languages with vowel harmony, by constrast, phonotactic rules might need to be developed on the supersyllabic level.
		In some cases (esp. dental and labial fricatives), the voicing within the root itself is affected; in the case of labial fricatives, the change is even reflected orthographically (leaves, calves).
	www.ews.uiuc.edu /~jrfische/phonotactics.html (450 words)

	Child and adult L2 acquisition of agreement inflection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Furthermore, the study demonstrated that besides L2 phonotactic constraints, also phonotactics from the L1 of the listeners affect L2 speech segmentation.
		These languages phonotactically mirror each other: Persian does not allow consonant clusters in word (or syllable) onsets, and Hebrew does not allow consonant clusters in word offsets (or syllable codas).
		Dutch allows consonant clusters in both positions, and this offers the opportunity to examine situations where the phonotactic restrictions of the first language are in conflict with phonotactic constraints of the second language.
	www-uilots.let.uu.nl /events/lectures/elitu_kolkman.htm (365 words)

	HLW: Word Forms: Units: Syllables
		We can see that Japanese draws the line between what is phonotactically possible and what is not in a very different place than English does.
		These differences seem to be related again to the Hearer-oriented pressure to make syllables more distinctive so that they are easier to distinguish along with the opposing Speaker-oriented pressure to make words easy to pronounce.
		Mandarin Chinese is a language with relatively simple phonotactics and hence relatively few possible syllable types, but it compensates this by having four separate tones.
	www.iub.edu /~hlw/PhonUnits/syllables.html (2948 words)

	The Role of Phonotactics in L2 lexical acquisition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It has been shown, for example, that short-term memory performance on the recall of CVC nonwords is influenced by the probability of the phonotactic sequence.
		A standard problem is to establish whether phonotactic effects on processing emerge from representations of phoneme sequences in the sublexical level, or from phonologically similar words stored in the lexical level.
		Therefore a task is needed, which reliably tests the influence of phonotactics and disentangles the effects of lexical neighborhood density on short-term memory recall.
	www-uilots.let.uu.nl /events/lectures/elitu_boll.htm (189 words)

	Amazon.com: phonotactics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The phonotactics of English: An exercise in sound-letter options by Rowena L Adamson (Unknown Binding - 1980)
		Phonostatistics and phonotactics of the syllable in modern Persian (Studia Orientalia) by Seyyed Morteza Alamolhoda (Unknown Binding - 2000)
		Correlations between age-related changes in juvenile hormone III biosynthesis, phonotactic threshold, and syllable period selectivity in the house cricket,...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=phonotactics&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (365 words)

	Jessica Boynton: Australian Languages
		Studying the nature of phonotactic and phonological differences between the languages of Australia helps to reconstruct proto-Australian; although, if scholars are right in supposing that the language predates proto-Indo-European (Dixon, 1980), any sketch of the protolanguage would be met with skepticism at best.
		These rules are useful in reconstructing protolanguages because sound correspondences, paired with a reasonable theory of a history of phonological changes, provide reliable evidence for formations in the protolanguage.
		This paper will begin by outlining general phonological and phonotactic traits of the Australian languages, then illustrate these phenomena with an analysis of a single language (Warrgamay).
	people.emich.edu /jboynton/research/australian.html (3787 words)

	Child and adult L2 acquisition of agreement inflection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Furthermore, the study demonstrated that besides L2 phonotactic constraints, also phonotactics from the L1 of the listeners affect L2 speech segmentation.
		These languages phonotactically mirror each other: Persian does not allow consonant clusters in word (or syllable) onsets, and Hebrew does not allow consonant clusters in word offsets (or syllable codas).
		Dutch allows consonant clusters in both positions, and this offers the opportunity to examine situations where the phonotactic restrictions of the first language are in conflict with phonotactic constraints of the second language.
	www.let.uu.nl /uilots/events/lectures/elitu_kolkman.htm (365 words)

	tarising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Phonotactics are regularities in the position and sequencing of the sounds in a language.
		I've recently noticed that phonotactics seem to be influencing word creation in the blogsphere.
		When phototgraphy was combined with blogging, the term that arose was photoblogs or photologs and not "plogs" (it's probably too perceptually confusable with "blogs")or "phlogs" (a rather obvious semantic reason for this).
	tarising.blogspot.com (5589 words)

	Machine Learning of Phonotactics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this thesis three different learning algorithms are applied to one language problem: the recognition of the phonotactic structure of monosyllabic Dutch words.
		Two different versions of each experiment have been performed: one in which the algorithms were supplied with some basic phonotactic knowledge and one without such initial knowledge.
		The algorithms were tested with unseen positive test data, which they should approve of, and negative test data, which they should reject.
	www.ifarm.nl /erikt/mlp (454 words)

	Storkel's Word and Sound Learning Lab
		Storkel, H.L., and Rogers, M.A. The effect of probabilistic phonotactics on lexical acquistion.
		The effect of probabilistic phonotactics on lexical acquisition in typically developing children was examined to determine whether a lexical or sublexical level of language processing dominates lexical acquisition.
		Sixty-one normally achieving 7, 10, and 13 year-old children participated in a word learning task, involving non-words of varying probabilistic phonotactics.
	www2.ku.edu /~wrdlrng/probabilistic.html (211 words)

	CiteULike: gcrost's phonotactics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Infants learn phonotactic regularities from brief auditory experience.
		The interaction between vocabulary size and phonotactic probability effects on children's production accuracy and fluency in nonword repetition.
		The influence of Vocabulary Size, Phonotactic Probability, and Wordlikeness on Nonword Repetitions of CHildren with and without SLI
	www.citeulike.org /user/gcrost/tag/phonotactics (194 words)

	Learning Simple Phonotactics - Sang, Nerbonne (ResearchIndex)
		The methods are all tested using 10% reserved data as well as a comparable number of randomly generated strings....
		The score of a letter c in the context of prefix s is symbolized An FGREP Investigation into Phonotactics 5 0.5 1 1.3...
		The score of a letter # in the context of prefix is symbolized by 4 0.5 1 1.3 1.5 2 2.5 3 0 10 20 30 40...
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /254141.html (374 words)

	Michael S. Vitevitch -- Personal Page
		Phonotactics, neighborhood activation and lexical access for spoken words.
		Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., Charles-Luce, J., and Kemmerer, D. Phonotactic and metrical influences on the processing of spoken nonsense words.
		Vitevitch, M.S., Luce, P.A., and Charles-Luce, J. Phonotactic and metrical influences on adult ratings of spoken nonsense words.
	www.indiana.edu /~srlweb/personal/mvitevit.html (665 words)

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