Objectives: The purpose of this study is to examine whether phonological processing skill-based phonics intervention effective in improving awareness, decoding, and spelling adults with dyslexia. In addition, aimed ascertain detail the characteristics spelling, awareness Methods: participant was a 46-year-old adult female dyslexia, single subject experiment research method used. An program for ...

GENERATIVE PHONOLOGY [q.v.] aims to construct a predictive theory of natural language sound systems, rooted in a finely-detailed account of the principles defining linguistic representations and the possible relations between them. Within these broad goals, OPTIMALITY THEORY (OT) develops in the context of specific empirical theses about the way phonological systems are organized. We identify t...

is paper presents a derivational OT account of the word-nal deletion and augmentation alternations in Lardil. It presents two arguments in favor of the stratal view of derivations where the grammar is dišerent at dišerent stages (Bermúdez-Otero forthcoming, Kiparsky forthcoming), and against the serial view where the ranking is the same at all steps, and each step constitutes a minimal change ...

Within the population of children with profound hearing loss, children who use cochlear implants (CIs) have much better speech and language development than children who use hearing aids. However, CI users still perform more poorly than children with normal hearing (NH). Few studies have examined nonword repetition accuracy in children with CIs, although this measure is important because of its...

Two experiments sought to extend the demonstration of English-learning infants' abilities to segment nouns from fluent speech to a new lexical class: verbs. Moreover, we explored whether two factors previously shown to influence noun segmentation, stress pattern (strong-weak or weak-strong) and type of initial phoneme (consonant or vowel), also influence verb segmentation. Our results establish...

Many languages employ reduplication processes in which one segment of the reduplicant is fixed. In East Bengali, /t/ is normally the initial consonant in reduplicants of this type (/ a i-ta i/ ‘cars, etc.’). However, when the base itself begins with /t/, speakers prefer alternate fixed segments, such as /f/ or /m/ (not */tæ a-tæ a/, but /tæ a-mæ a/ ‘cross-eyed, etc.’). Speakers also tend to avo...