Humans communicate with each other using abstract signs and symbols. While the cooperation between humans and machines can be a powerful tool for solving complex or difficult tasks, the communication must be at the abstract enough level that is both natural to the humans and understandable to the machines. Our paper focuses on natural language and in particular on sign language recognition. The...

This paper demonstrates how tone can provide clues about large-scale grammatical architecture, by focusing on the interaction between three tonal processes in Seenku, a Mande language of Burkina Faso with a four-height tone system (tones: eL, L, H, eH). First, a phonotactic restriction against H in word-final position in open class vocabulary triggers epenthesis of eL, creating a H-eL contour. ...

Psycholinguists strive to construct a model of human language processing in general. But this does not imply that they should confine their research to universal aspects of linguistic structure, and avoid research on language-specific phenomena. First, even universal characteristics of language structure can only be accurately observed cross-linguistically. This point is illustrated here by res...

Changes in the sound system of a language may involve many different aspects. First, phonemes may be added to an inventory, they may become obsolete, or they may change their shape. Second, allophonic rules may emerge (e.g. "voice intersonorant fricatives"), disappear, or change. Third, phonotactic restrictions may be added (e.g. no syllable-initial Iknl sequences, so that such clusters are red...

The structure of French syllables has long been controversial, particularly with respect to the status of word-final consonants. Some researchers suggest that word-final consonants are syllabified as codas, whereas others propose that these are onsets of empty-headed syllables. This raises questions regarding the nature of syllabic representations in children’s developing French, a topic that h...

L2 English speech produced by Mandarin Chinese speakers is usually perceived to be intermediate between stress-timed and syllable-timed in rhythm. However, previous studies seldom employed comparable data of target language, source language and L2 interlanguage in one investigation, which may lead to discrepant results. Thus, in this study we conducted a contrastive investigation of 10 Chinese ...

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...

ABSTRAK Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui proses fonologis pada pidato berbahasa Indonesia yang dilakukan oleh duta besar Korea Selatan - tahun 2019 dan 2020 yaitu Kim Chang-beom Park Tae-sung. Metode deskriptif kualitatif. Adapun data diambil melalui video memiliki fonologis. Teknik digunakan dalam teknik simak catat. Langkah-langkah analisis meliputi 1) pengumpulan penelitian, 2) ...

When presented with stimuli that contain illegal consonant clusters, Japanese listeners tend to hear an illusory vowel that makes their perception conform to the phonotactics of their language. In a previous paper, we suggested that this effect arises from language-specific prelexical processes (Dupoux, Kakehi, Hirose, Pallier & Mehler, 1999). The present paper assesses the alternative hypothes...

the third person singular enclitic verb /-ast/ which is equivalent to english verb “is” undergoes the highest number of  phonological processes among persian enclitic forms of the verb “boudan” (to be); it changes to [as] in one environment, to [s] in another, and to [e] in four environments. deletion of /t/ is common in all six contexts. these different pronunciations are determined by various...