Extrasyllabic consonants in CV phonology: an experimental test

Historical Phonology of Old Indo - Aryan Consonants

Optionality and Gradience in Persian Phonology: An Optimality Treatment

The distribution of the allophones of /?/in certain contexts involves free variation and gradient preferences. An organized survey was conducted to elicit the judgments of 37 native Persian speakers concerning the well-formedness of /?/allophonic behavior in five different phonological positions. The results showed that the differences in judgment between the various categories are not just t...

The Perceptual Recognition of Stop Consonants in CV vs Word Context in Arabic

The context in which sounds occur exhibits some effect on the perception of these sounds. This study attempts to test the recognition of the Arabic stop consonants /p,b,t,d,k,g/ in two contexts, viz. CV and word. The purpose is to find out whether there is a recognition difference between these two contexts over a range of voice onset time (VOT). A test was conducted in which twenty-one native ...

Chaotic principle: an experimental test

The chaotic hypothesis discussed in [GC1] is tested experimentally in a simple conduction model. Besides a confirmation of the hypothesis predictions the results suggest the validity of the hypothesis in the much wider context in which, as the forcing strength grows, the attractor ceases to be an Anosov system and becomes an Axiom A attractor. A first test of the new predictions is also attempted.

Processing interactions between phonology and melody: vowels sing but consonants speak.

The aim of this study was to determine if two dimensions of song, the phonological part of lyrics and the melodic part of tunes, are processed in an independent or integrated way. In a series of five experiments, musically untrained participants classified bi-syllabic nonwords sung on two-tone melodic intervals. Their response had to be based on pitch contour, on nonword identity, or on the com...