Artificial analogues of natural‐language phonological patterns can often be learned in the
lab from small amounts of training or exposure. The difficulty of a featurally‐defined pattern …

Artificial analogues of natural‐language phonological patterns can often be learned in the
lab from small amounts of training or exposure. The difficulty of a featurally‐defined pattern …

This thesis explores the role of uniformity of speech articulation in shaping phonological
systems of contrast and their phonetic implementations. The observable effect of uniformity …

This paper presents structurally biased phonology, a program of research that aims to
formalize and better understand the role of structural complexity in phonological learning …

Distinctive feature theory is an effort to identify the phonetic dimensions that are important for
lexical contrasts and phonological patterns in human languages. The set of features and its …

Despite the fact that phonology has historically been integral to the development of modern
approaches to linguistic theory and typology (Greenberg et al. 1978; Hockett 1955; …

The feature-economy principle is one of the key theoretical notions which have been
postulated to account for the structure of phoneme inventories in the world's languages. In …

We investigate the idea that the languages of the world have developed coherent sound
systems in which having one sound increases or decreases the chances of having certain …

Contrast is a central tenet of phonology. Traditionally, two sounds are said to be in a relation
of contrast in a given language if they can be used to distinguish minimal pairs in the …

This dissertation investigates an often assumed hypothesis in phonetics and phonology: that
there should be relatively less within-category phonetic variation in production in languages …