The study presented here examines how adult L2 listeners' L1 phonotactics interferes with
L2 vowel perception in different consonantal contexts. We examined Mandarin listeners' …

Perceptual epenthesis is the perception of illusory vowels in consonantal sequences that
violate native phonotactics. The consensus has been that each language has a single …

Native speakers perceive illusory vowels when presented with sound sequences that do not
respect the phonotactic constraints of their language (Dupoux, Kakehi, Hirose, Pallier, & …

Sonority is a fundamental notion in phonetics and phonology, central to many descriptions of
the syllable and various useful predictions in phonotactics. Although widely accepted …

Speech perception is influenced by language-specific phonological knowledge. While
phonotactics has long been established to play a role, the study of how phonological …

Loanword adaptation has been claimed to provide a unique window onto the relation
between speech perception and the phonological grammar. This paper focuses on whether …

Does bilingual language influence in the domain of phonetics impact the morphosyntactic
domain? Spanish gender is encoded by word-final, unstressed vowels (/aeo/), which may …

Nonnative or second language (L2) perception of segmental sequences is often
characterised by perceptual modification processes, which may “repair” a nonnative …

Lexically-guided and visually-guided perceptual learning have been argued to tap into the
same general perceptual mechanism. Using the visually-guided paradigm, some have …

Phonology, as one of the traditional subdisciplines of modern linguistics, has been at the
forefront of linguistic research since the beginning of the 20th century. The phonology of …