This paper addresses the question of how certain kinds of overlapping syncretisms in inflectional paradigms can be accounted for that Baerman et al. (2005) refer to as convergent/divergent bidirectional syncretisms (based on earlier work by Stump (2001)). Bidirectional syncretism strongly resists accounts in terms of standard rules of exponence (or similar devices) that correlate inflection mar...

This study presents a micro-typological description of German dialects, focusing on the structure 13,492 tokens monosyllables, across 182 locations within Germany. Based data from Phonetischer Atlas der Bundesrepublik Deutschland , systematic geographical differences in both segmental and prosodic organization syllables are explored. The analysis reveals North–South contrast syllable structure....

This paper documents a Web-based psycholinguistic resource, the ARC Nonword Database, which complements the existing MRC Psycholinguistic Database (which provides words only). Pseudohomophones and non-pseudohomophonic nonwords were devised based on phonotactic and orthographic constraints of Australian English. These items can be selected from the ARC Nonword Database on the basis of a wide var...

One aim of the research project “Prosodic coding and decoding of words in fluent speech: a cross-language investigation between Swedish, Greek and French (ProCoF)” is to investigate the syllable from a phonological and phonetic point of view. Due to the differing opinions about the rules for syllabification in Swedish, a methodological study has been carried out in order to shed light on the co...