Pima (Uto-Aztecan, central Arizona) pluralizes nouns via partial reduplication. The amount of material copied varies between a single C (mavit / ma-m-vit ‘lion(s)’) and CV (hodai / ho-ho-dai ‘rock(s)’). The former is preferred unless copying a single C would give rise to an illicit coda or cluster, in which case CV is copied. In contrast to previous analyses of similar patterns in Tohono O’odha...

The aim of the project this paper reports on is to identify and analyze the correlation between Polish consonant clusters and the semantic categories of the words that contain a given cluster. The material studied is a large corpus of Polish newspaper text. A common characteristic of sets of words is whether or not they contain an identical consonant cluster, which is understood here as a conti...

The protocols used by distributed file systems vary widely. The aim of this talk is to give an overview of these protocols and discuss their applicability for a cluster environment. File systems like NFS have weak semantics, making tight sharing difficult. AFS, Coda and InterMezzo give a great deal of autonomy to cluster members, and involve a persistent file cache for each system. True cluster...

It has been claimed that patterns of regressive place assimilation in consonant clusters are attributable to the ‘inherent velocities’ primary oral articulators involved. The present study used articulatory data from Moroccan Arabic evaluate whether there were reliable differences peak velocity or measured stiffness based on articulator. Evidence for such was limited. We also evaluated degree o...

In the literature, consonants have been proposed to be more important than vowels in lexical activation and access processes. However, despite a large body of evidence in the infant and adult literature, a recent study revealed a disappearance of the bias in newly learned words over the preschool years (Havy, Bertoncini, & Nazzi, 2011). As a first explanation of this developmental change, one m...

This study examines the acoustic realization of two complementary sets of vowels in Shanghai Chinese: One appearing in open syllables only (OSVs) and the other in closed syllables with a glottal coda (PGVs). Two factors consonant onset and prominence level were controlled to test the null hypothesis that PGVs are reduced realization of the OSVs due to their short duration. Results showed spectr...

Speech perception can be viewed in terms of the listener's integration of two sources of information: the acoustic features transduced by the auditory receptor system and the context of the linguistic message. The present research asked how these sources were evaluated and integrated in the identification of synthetic speech. A speech continuum between the glide-vowel syllables IriJ and lill wa...

Previous studies have shown that listeners have difficulty discriminating between non-native CC sequences and licit alternatives (e.g. Japanese [ebzo]-[ebuzo], English [bnif]-[b=nif]) (Berent et al., 2007; Dupoux et al., 1999). Some have argued that the difficulty in distinguishing these illicit–licit pairs is due to a ‘‘perceptual illusion’’ caused by the phonological system, which prevents li...

Nasal consonants in syllabic coda position in Japanese assimilate to the place of articulation of a following consonant. The resulting forms may be perceived as different realizations of a single underlying unit, and indeed the kana orthographies represent them with a single character. In the present study, Japanese listeners' response time to detect nasal consonants was measured. Nasals in cod...

This paper examines how the strategies for L2 production utilized by foreign language learners affect the performance of non-native speech recognition. Producing English consonant clusters are the most problematic for Korean learners of English because of difference between Korean and English phonotactics. The strategies of Korean learners in producing English consonant clusters entail a large ...