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 …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS IN LINGUISTICS Edited by
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Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical
linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the …

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the
nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one …

The author introduces the L2 Linguistic Perception (L2LP) model, a new formal and
comprehensive proposal which integrates, synthesizes, and improves on previous studies …

There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of
substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A …

Most 'phonetically driven'or functionalist theories of phonology propose that two of the
fundamental forces shaping phonology are the need to minimise effort on the part of the …

Phonological constraints can, in principle, be classified according to whether they are
natural (founded in principles of universal grammar (UG)) or unnatural (arbitrary, learned …

Two factors have been proposed as the main determinants of phonological typology:
channel bias, phonetically systematic errors in transmission, and analytic bias, cognitive …

Are speakers equipped with preferences concerning grammatical structures that are absent
in their language? We examine this question by investigating the sensitivity of English …