The Reang, alternatively known as ‘Bru’ is the second largest indigenous community in north-east Indian state of Tripura. ‘Kaubru’ or ‘Reang’ spoken by afore mentioned group people one eight dialects Kokborok. As a result dialectical difference, instances miscommunication between native speakers Reang and that other Kokborok often noticed. primary reason this difference several phonological pro...

This article shows that the usual speaker-based account of h-aspiré in French can explain at most three of the four phonological processes in which it is involved, whereas a listener-oriented account can explain all of them. On a descriptive level, the behaviour of h-aspiré is accounted for with a grammar model that involves a control loop, whose crucial ingredient is listener-oriented faithful...

Introduction The acquisition of vowels by normally developing children is an area that has received increasing attention in the past decade, but the substitutions that characterize children’s speech remain largely undocumented. Looking at adult phonological substitutions1, we find that the range of normal substitutions is very wide, but clear. There is every reason to believe that we should fin...

Tone processes in Chinese languages can be identified as phonological or phonetic. In the literature, this distinction is often made by referring to them as either tone sandhi (phonological) or tonal coarticulation (phonetic). However, while it is unchallenged that certain processes (e.g. Standard Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi) belong to the phonological camp, some other tone processes that are consid...

Natural languages contain numerous non-adjacent relationships between words or morphemes in a sentence, often straddling phonological phrase boundaries (e.g., [these sheep] [have [ellipsis (horizontal)]]). Since phonological phrases are considered the main processing unit for infants, this may cause the acquisition of cross-phrase dependencies to be challenging. This study, however, shows that ...

Text-to-speech engines benefit from natural language processing while generating the appropriate prosody. In this study, we investigate the natural language processing infrastructure for Turkish prosody generation in three steps as pronunciation disambiguation, phonological phrase detection and intonation level assignment. We focus on phrase boundary detection and intonation assignment. We prop...

Conflict of interest: non-existent planning, as well as phonological memory and auditory processing1. Moreover, during this period of language acquisition, in order to acquire the sounds which are part of their environment’s language, the learner uses some repair strategies. These strategies are used as an attempt to adapt the performance of the targetsystem to their phonological system, simpli...