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 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 …

This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonology, the study
of sound patterns in language. Designed for undergraduates with only a basic knowledge of …

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 …

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

Speech sound patterns can be discerned using multiple acoustic cues. The relative
weighting of these cues is known to be language-specific. Speech-sound training in adults …

This book presents the first cross-linguistic study of the phenomenon of infixation, typically
associated in English with words like" im-bloody-possible", and found in all the world's major …

In this paper, I discuss a linguistic model for explaining native and secondlanguage (L2)
sound perception. In § 2, I discuss the Linguistic Perception (LP) model for general sound …