This paper presents a learning algorithm for local phonological processes that exploits a restriction on the expressive power needed to compute phonological patterns that apply locally. This restriction reflects the well-recognized idea that locality plays an important role in phonology (Kenstowicz (1994); Gafos (1996), among others) and arguably in learning (Heinz, 2009). We first characterize...

BACKGROUND phonological disorder. AIM to verify the association between the phonological performance in picture naming and imitation tasks, assessing the occurrence of phonological processes and using the severity indexes of Percentage of Correct Consonants and Phonological Density Index. METHOD participants of this research were 50 phonologically disordered children, with no history of pri...

Evolution of languages has always been of interest to linguists.  In this paper we study  the natural progress of the syllable structure from Old  Persian  (O.P)  to Middle Persian (Mi.P) and up to the Modern Persian (Mo.P). For this purpose all the words containing consonant sequences are collected from specific sources of each  of these  languages,  and then  analysed  according to the syllab...

Semi-regular phonological processes occur often in natural language. For example, rendaku voicing in Japanese fails to occur in a seemingly random fashion among roughly 16% of certain classes of compounds. This presents an analytical challenge for generative theories with exceptionless rules or categorical constraints: irregularity of any kind must arise within lexical representations, not the ...

Labov goes on to argue that the observed patterning of deletion with regards to other variable phenomena (specifically, copula contraction) argues for one analysis in particular: that by which forms of be are deleted by phonological processes. The more broadlyapplicable argument is that the patterns and correlations observed in natural speech data provide evidence for the particular locus of th...

Current theories of single-word processing predict that in some cases brain damage should selectively impair morphological processes, resulting in the selective occurrence of morphological errors. However, such a selective pattern of errors has never been documented, and the available case studies report the systematic association of morphological and phonological (segmental) errors in the same...