Syllable Structure and Interlanguage Phonology

L2 Learners’ Modification of Target Language Syllable Structure: Prosodic Licensing Effects in Interlanguage Phonology

0 Introduction Much linguistic research has focused on interlanguage (IL) deletion and epenthesis, most often within a typological framework (e.g. Eckman 1977, 1986, 1991, Eckman & Iverson 1993, Carlisle 1998). While typological analyses are generally descriptively and predictively adequate, they arguably have three important weaknesses. First, typological accounts have little to say about the ...

Syllable Structure in Sign Language Phonology

Phonology Project Part II: Laryngeal Neutralization and Syllable Structure

Some notes on syllable structure in articulatory phonology.

Two approaches to seeking stable patterns in the gestural organization of speech are examined: local organization (individual gestures coordinated with other individual gestures) and global organization (gestures forming larger conglomerates). Articulatory evidence from American English words with a variety of initial consonants and clusters shows that syllable-initial consonants form a global ...

Exploiting Syllable Structure in a Connectionist Phonology Model

In a previous paper (Touretzky & Wheeler, 1990a) we showed how adding a clustering operation to a connectionist phonology model produced a parallel processing account of certain "iterative" phenomena. In this paper we show how the addition of a second structuring primitive, syllabification, greatly increases the power of the model. We present examples from a non-Indo-European language that appe...