This paper considers two phenomena in Tz'utujil (Mayan) phonology: final sonorant devoicing and aspiration of plain (pulmonic) stops affricates. Both occur word-internally coda position, as well word-finally. I present an Optimality-Theoretic (OT) analysis which accounts for both these via positional constraints on [spread glottis] ([SG]). also attested variation across the Mayan language famil...

French variable adjectives have traditionally been described as undergoing a process of final consonant deletion from the feminine to the masculine form. We review here different analyses that have been proposed to account for this phenomenon, highlighting problems with the theoretical analyses and advances in empirical work on the question. We present an analysis where, by default, French adje...

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 ...

This study compares canonical and phonetic articulation rates of European Spanish and Portuguese based on radio podcasts. The main goal of the investigation is to establish the degree of syllable deletion based on vowel/consonant elision in both languages. The results show that Portuguese and Spanish speakers exhibit no difference in canonical articulation rate but Portuguese speakers reduce sy...

We demonstrate that adult English speakers make use of perceptual principles in medial consonant cluster deletion. Cross-linguistically, consonant cluster simplification via deletion is more likely apply to the first consonant rather than the second consonant (if both consonants are of equal sonority). Adult native English speakers, were given a two-alternative forced-choice task in which eithe...

This study aimed to identify the phonological processes used by Cebuano children at free play. There were 15 from different age groups who studied: first group (1.0 - 1.6 years old); second (1.7 4.0 and third (4.1 7.0 old). The participants grouped according stages of Ingram David (1989). is 50-word phonology stage; single morphemes completion phonemic inventory stage. child-adult interactions ...