The perceptual consequences of phonological contrast have long been of interest to
phonologists and phoneticians. In Trubetzkoy's well-known Grundzüge der Phonologie …

In this paper, we consider the perceptual consequences of phonological contrast, a topic
that has been of interest to both phonologists and speech perception researchers for some …

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 …

The idea that the nature of speech perception plays a role in shaping phonology is not new.
There is a substantial literature that proposes and tests perceptual explanations for …

Previous cross-language research has indicated that some speech contrasts present greater
perceptual difficulty for adult non-native listeners than others do. It has been hypothesized …

This study reports the results of two experiments with native speakers of Japanese. In
experiment 1, near-monolingual Japanese listeners participated in a cross-language …

A fundamental observation of phonological theory is that, out of the rich sound signal of
speech, a small subset of phonetic properties is contrastive in any given language …

This dissertation examines the role of minimal contrast in phonetic patterns and
phonological phenomena. Two sounds are minimally contrastive when they differ in just one …

This work explores development in the perception of Japanese singleton and geminate
consonant contrasts among native speakers of English learning Japanese as a second …

We investigated how listeners of two unrelated languages, Korean and Dutch, process
phonologically viable and nonviable consonants spoken in Dutch and American English. To …