This paper reports a latent variable study exploring the specific links between executive processes of working memory, phonological short-term memory, phonological awareness, and proficiency in first (L1), second (L2), and third (L3) languages in 8to 9-year-olds experiencing multilingual education. Children completed multiple L1-measures of complex span, verbal short-term storage, and phonologi...

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 ...

the present article describes the common phonological features of linguistic varieties in 20 areas of sarakhs city. one hundred linguistic forms were gathered through interviews and questionnaires. the subjects were mostly adults, farmers, illiterate people and villagers. the phonological processes observed in these varieties were: 1. assimilation of consonants and vowels ablauting, 2. addition...

Many phonetic and phonological processes resemble one another, which has led some researchers to suggest that phonetics and phonology are essentially the same. This study compares phonetic and phonological processes of consonant lengthening by analyzing duration measurements collected from Hungarian speakers (n = 14). Affricates, which crucially possess a two-part structure, were placed in targ...

In loanword phonology we seek to uncover the processes by which speakers possessing one phonological system perceive, apply native representational constraints on, and ultimately produce forms which have been generated by a different phonological system. In other words, loanwords do not come equipped with their own phonological representation. For any phonetic string, it is only native speakers...

This paper explores some issues in designing conversational systems with integrated higher level constraints. We experiment with a configuration that combines a context-dependent acoustic front-end, using MIT’s SUMMIT recognizer, with ANGIE, a hierarchical framework that models word substructure and phonological processes, and with TINA, a trainable probabilistic natural language (NL) model. Wo...